Lakers Snap Three-Game Skid With Win Over Owen Sound; Peterborough Climbs to Second Place In Standings

The Peterborough Lakers snap a three-game losing streak and moved to second place in the Major Series Lacrosse standings after a 9-7 win over the Owen Sound North Stars at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday night.

Photo courtesy of David Pickering and the Peterborough Lakers.

The Lakers jumped out to a 3-0 lead after a pair of Braedon Saris goals and a tally from Brad McCulley. Owen Sound responded with a pair of Jackson Webster scores and it was 3-2 after the first.

Peterborough struck again to start the period as Adam Thistlehwaite and Joe Resetarits scored to extend the Lakers’s lead. The teams alternated the next three goals, including Holden Cattoni’s first score of the game, for a 6-4 lead into the third.

The Lakers scored twice to open the stanza for a third consecutive time. Carter Page scored shorthanded while Resetarits got his second of the game. Owen Sound scored two straight of their own and both teams traded goals with Cattoni getting his second of the game. The Lakers hung on and won by a score of 9-7.

“Finally, a good effort at home,” said Cattoni. “We’ve been struggling to find our rhythm and tonight we played a pretty solid game top to bottom. Kudos to their goalie, almost 60 saves. We pulled out a good win and one that we needed at home. We’d like to have probably more than nine goals on 70 shots, but that’s hopefully something to come in the near future.”

The win moves Peterborough to 8-4 and are solely in second place behind the Six Nations Chiefs.

“The wins and losses are one thing but it’s the way we were playing that we weren’t happy with,” explaing Cattoni. “You can’t always control when the ball goes in the net or if you catch a hot goalie, or their team has a good shooting night. That happens. We were more just disappointed with the way we were playing and the effort we were showing so this was a good step forward for us tonight and hopefully we can replicate that in the weeks to come.”

The Lakers play on the road on Wednesday to face the Brooklin Lacrosse Club.

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