OHSLA 2015 Championship Recap

Oregon High School Lacrosse Association

Check out how we got here on the 2015 Playoff Bracket page. Game commentary is sprinkled between action pictures below (courtesy of Bob Miller and Richard Calderwood).
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West Linn(#3) vs Lakeridge(#1)
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The Officials	Dawson Loehner buries Cam Troike

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Lakeridge's Corey Rich shoots...	...and scores the first goal of the game.

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KT Seth gets by Blake Kennon...	...but the slide by Emmett Jones is too late and KT Seth scores West Linn's first goal.
First Quarter Lakeridge opened the scoring with the first two goals, but West Linn recovered and scored the last two goals of the period. After one quarter the score was tied at two goals apiece.
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Mitchell Johnson shoots...	...and scores!

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Johnson shoots again...	...but Brooke Dutton makes the stop.

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Joel Schwarz moves the ball upfield.	Holden Catlett gets first clean Lakeridge face-off win.

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Colin Squires gets a trail check on Holden Catlett.	Jacob Taylor gets a clear line to the goal (and scores).
Second Quarter West Linn started with two goals from Jacob Taylor to take a two goal lead. Despite West Linn's dominance of possession and losing All-American Joel Schwarz for most of the quarter due to illness, the Lakeridge defense held tough and the score remained 4-2 until a little over two minutes remained in the half. Then Mitchell Johnson and Dylan Tuor scored two goals within thirty seconds for West Linn to open the game up. Aided 10-1 domination at the face-off X and 5 extra ground balls the Lions controlled possession over the course of the first half. It appeared that Lakeridge had been worn down, but Holden Catlett scored with a little over a minute left to give Lakeridge some momentum before the half.
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Thomas Moore does an overhead trail check on KT Seth...	...to get the ball on the ground...

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...and go the other way	Klose sends the feed to the weak side...

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...where Mitchell Johnson is waiting...	...and finishes.
Third Quarter Thanks to some untimely unforced turnovers, Lakeridge was unable to turn the tide as they did against Sunset in the Semis, and West Linn scored first to to take a four goal lead at 7-3. Lakeridge countered with a goal from Griffin Catlett make it 7-4 with a little over 7min left in the quarter. However West Linn's continued dominance on ground balls as well as face-offs allowed them to keep possession and they scored back to back, deja-vu goals off cross crease feeds from Ryan Klose to Jacob Taylor less than a minute apart to make it 9-4. The quarter ended at 9-4.
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Ball down in a crowd...	...and Fletcher comes out with it.

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Klose attracts a crowd.	Griffin Catlett fans on the ice Pick.

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Blake Fletcher shoots...	...but Brooke Dutton makes the stop.

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Eli Gaunt shoots...	...and scores West Linn's 10th goal of the game.

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John Finegan goes behind the back...	...and scores the last goal of the game.
Fourth Quarter The teams traded possessions with no goals until Griffin Catlett scored with a little over 8min remaining to make it 9-5. West Linn then milked the clock for a few minutes and Eli Gaunt scored to return the lead to 5 goals with just under 6min left. scored with four minutes left, Lakeridge was able to get the ball back but couldn't put it in the goal and West Linn got possession to run out the clock.