END 3RD: #2 Pingry 12, #1 Bridgewater-Raritan 3.
Pingry Lacrosse erupts for all six goals of the third quarter against BRHS Panther Lacrosse. Big Blue trying to repeat as county champions.
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.Pingry Athletics now leads 13-3 over Lady Panther Lax with 3:39 to go. Big Blue on the doorstep of first ever Somerset County Girls Lacrosse Tournament title and knocking off six-time defending champion B-R.
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.BRHS Panther Lacrosse’s Colin Kurdyla turns around and fires a GREAT point-blank look, but Pingry Lacrosse’s Graham Stevens makes a RIDICULOUS save to keep Big Blue up 13-6 with 7:17 to go.
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2:55 to go and timeout called with Pingry Lacrosse up 14-6 over BRHS Panther Lacrosse in 2023 Somerset County Tournament finals.
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.Pingry Lacrosse thwarts a clear attempt by BRHS Panther Lacrosse, and Dylan Blekicki fires in the game’s first goal with 8:50 left in the first quarter.
Big Blue leads 1-0.
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HUGE stop by Pingry Athletics on clear attempt by B-R after Lady Panther Lax wins ensuing draw: its third straight draw control after Pingry took seven of the game’s first nine.
Big Blue leads 8-2 with possession with 15:39 to go, and timeout is called.
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Will Kasica with his second save for BRHS Panther Lacrosse, but Pingry Lacrosse’s Graham Stevens answers with his second stop for the Big Blue.
Charlie Sherman with a ground ball and timeout called by Pingry with game tied 1-1 with 3:35 left in 1st.
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.BRHS Panther Lacrosse comes away with a turnover, but Pingry Lacrosse’s Asher Ziv scoops up a ground ball near midfield and then scores his third goal in transition with 5:00 left in 3rd.
Pingry now leads 10-3.
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Becca Kirschner now with a hat trick on a free-position goal for Pingry Athletics. Bella Goodwin then finds Annabelle Mahoney, who also has a hat trick, to extend Big Blue’s lead to 10-2 over Lady Panther Lax with 12:47 to go.
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.BRHS Panther Lacrosse kills the penalty and Colin Kurdyla scores with 1:43 left in the first half to cut Pingry Lacrosse’s lead to 6-3!!
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NEXT UP: #1 BRHS Panther Lacrosse (16-1) vs. #2 Pingry Lacrosse (12-2) for the 2023 Somerset County Boys Lacrosse Tournament Championship!!
Rain has since cleared out, but it is still WARM warm and wet at Torpey.
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END 1ST: #2 Pingry 2, #1 Bridgewater-Raritan 3.
Alex DeLierre scores at the Torpey horn for BRHS Panther Lacrosse to cut Pingry Lacrosse’s lead to one after one period!!
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HALFTIME: #2 Bridgewater-Raritan 0, #1 Pingry 5.
Pingry Athletics dominates possession in final 15:40 of first half and scores five unanswered goals in this span to take big lead over Lady Panther Lax at halftime.
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Becca Kirschner scores a free-position goal, and Pingry Athletics now leads 3-0 over Lady Panther Lax in the Somerset County Tournament finals.
Timeout with 9:59 left in the first half. Big Blue already has forced three turnovers with seven ground balls.
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Asher Ziv AGAIN for Pingry Lacrosse, and he now has three of his four Big Blue goals this quarter alone. Pingry now leads 11-3 over BRHS Panther Lacrosse with 3:21 to go in the third period.
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Jonah Ziv scores to extend Pingry Lacrosse’s lead to 5-2, and BRHS Panther Lacrosse is called for penalty.
Luke Cifuentes then scoops ground ball, B-R tries to clear, and Big Blue calls timeout with 5:34 left in 2nd.
14 seconds left in man-up for Pingry.
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.Lady Panther Lax’s Karly Perez with a save on a free-position shot, Hailey Elias with the clear, and still no score with 18:51 left in the first half against Pingry Athletics!
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Live updates here from Torpey for today’s SCIAA Lacrosse Finals doubleheader!!
12pm: #1 Pingry Athletics vs. #2 Lady Panther Lax
2:30pm: #1 BRHS Panther Lacrosse vs. #2 Pingry Lacrosse
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Dylan Blekicki scores to extend Pingry Lacrosse’s lead to 6-2, BRHS Panther Lacrosse is called for a penalty, but Daine Kostes wins ensuing faceoff for Panthers and is now 6-for-8 at the X for B-R.
Now 2:45 left in the second period.
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Intercepted pass by Pingry Lacrosse’s Henry Pyne and then a clear by Charlie Ackermann. Big Blue forces its fifth turnover and leads BRHS Panther Lacrosse 4-2 with 8:25 left in the second quarter.
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