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| Randy Staats scoring the first of his three goals to help the Chiefs win 10-8. (Photo: Tim Prothero) |
They're back. For the first time this
season, the Six Nations Chiefs really looked like the team that won
last year's Mann Cup. Ironically, the resemblance was achieved
largely thanks to the contributions of two players who weren't with
the team last summer. Randy Staats scored 3 goals and 3
assists and Jeff Shattler added 3 goals and 5 assists to lead
the Chiefs to a 10-8 win over the Peterborough Lakers. The win moves
the Chiefs to 6-4 and within two points of first-place Brooklin,
although the Redmen have two games in hand. Peterborough falls to 3-5
pending their appeal of forfeiting their first four games of the
season.
The Lakers got off to a fast start,
running up a 4-0 lead and making it look like they may carve out a
repeat of last week's 15-9 win. But Six Nations Head Coach Rich
Kilgour said the Chiefs made a decision that they weren't going
to fold. “Last week we just laid down and took it. We had a good
talk about that on the ride home that that's not acceptable,”
Kilgour said. “It was 4-nothing and they were rolling. We got
together on the bench and said we can either give up right now and go
start the bus or we can buckle down and get the next one and go from
there. That's what kept us going last year. That last goal doesn't
mean anything, let's think about the next one.”
The Chiefs got a pair back before the
first period ended and scored three in the first 3:20 of the second
to take a 5-4 lead and quiet the crowd of 3,095 at the Peterborough
Memorial Centre. Peterborough tied the game up when Brock Sorensen
finished off a breakout play on a pass from Nick Weiss but the
Chiefs replied to take the lead again on Staats second goal of the
period.
Six Nations extended the lead with the
first two goals of the third. Twice Peterborough scored to draw
closer but both times the Chiefs responded quickly, scoring 19 and 67
seconds after the Lakers markers, respectively.
It was an excellent lacrosse game and
sets the stage for the teams' third game in nine days when they meet
again Saturday night at 7 pm at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena in a game
you can see live via JVI Video webcast. Just click on the link in the
right-hand column of this page to watch.
