Peterborough Lakers Dominant In First Playoff Game, Routing Brooklin L.C. to 12-4 Victory

The Peterborough Lakers kick off the postseason with a bang, routing the Brooklin L.C. in Game one of the Major Series Lacrosse semifinals, 12-4 at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday night.

Photo courtesy of David Pickering and the Peterborough Lakers.

The Lakers had a perfect opening period to start the playoffs, shutting out Brooklin while tallying three goals thanks to Thomas Hoggarth, Mike Robinson and Joe Resetarits for a 3-0 lead.

Peterborough’s offense rolled in the second stanza, scoring the next six for a nine-goal run. Braedon Saris, Holden and Taite Cattoni, Carter Page and Brad McCulley got their first goals of the playoffs while Resetarits had his second of the game. The Lakers had their shutout broken fby two Brooklin powerplay goals but McCulley tacked on one more, shorthanded, for a 10-2 lead into the final frame.

“You know, it makes it a lot easier when you hold a team to zero goals for almost two full periods,” said Robinson. “We’re clicking right now and I think, you know, the goal is always to peak at the end of the year, we don’t want to peak in the middle. We're just going to keep doing those little things and keep moving forward and keep getting better each game.”

The final period saw both teams score two goals each, as both Cattonis scored for the Lakers and Peterborough cruised to a 12-4 victory, taking game one of the best-of-seven series.

“We obviously got out to real good start and I was seeing the ball early and they were keeping the ball to the outside where we like it,” said Nick Rose, Lakers goaltender. “We built a pretty big lead and that kind of game was a little out of hand for a game one but we know that they're going to be a lot better at home on Saturday.”

Game two is on Saturday night at Iroquois Park Sports Centre in Whitby at 8 p.m.

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