Cats Turn Out The Lights on The Stars 11-6

The West Genesee Wildcats (15-3) ended their 2008 regular season with an 11-6 victory against the Cicero - North Syracuse North Stars at the Cicero middle school.

The first quarter saw both sides trade goals, but it was Genny who took little time getting on the board 1-0 at 11:10 when sophomore middie ‘Cali’ John Glesner took a pass from senior co-captain Henry ‘Luke’ Cometti, and used the natural turf to rocket a bouncer past CNS goalie Anthony Puma. The Northstars knotted the game at 1-1 with 5:18 left on an unassisted seeing eye goal by the Stars Lloyd Hamilton on a shot that snuck between junior Wildcat goalie Steve Mahle and the left post. Cometti retaliated with one of his patented right handed cannons with 3:36 to make it 2-1. CNS’s Jim Haney would answer 2-2 with just 1:12 to go with a shot past Mahle under the cross bar. But it was the Cats with the final shot of the quarter when junior middie Ryan McConnell sped down the left sideline and skipped a bouncer past Puma with just nine seconds left for a 3 - 2 advantage.

The second quarter saw an unanswered four goal run by the Cats with Glesner adding his second, 4-2 on a bouncer with an assist from Cometti with 6:51 left to go. Genny went up 5-2 with 3:23 left when senior middie Tim Besio, found senior middie Owen Alberts in front for the goal. Senior attackman Tim Fetterly netted the Cats next, 6-2 when junior middie Jim Marks passed back against the play, finding Fetterly wide open for the goal with 2:34 to go. The Cats ended the half with a fine hustle play as junior attackman Jordan Rogers saved the ball on the side line, found Cometti, who found Besio in front for a 7-2 half-time lead.

West Genny continued its run with their fifth in a row as Mahle cleared to Besio who made an acrobatic one handed grab at midfield,looked up and found senior co-captain attackman Ryan Barber who did the rest and the Cats led 8-2 with 10:42 to go.Haney followed with his second for CNS making it 8-3 with 9:18 left. With 8:40 to go it was Besio drawing a double team and finding Cometti open to increase their lead to 9-3.

CNS made a mini run at quarters end 9-4 when Sean McCaffery found himself wide open in front of the Cats goal with 3:40 left. The Northstars followed up with their fifth of the evening on an unassisted goal by Mike Debotis with 1:04 remaining.

Glesner opened the final quarter with his third 10-6 of the night at10:16 when Besio inverted behind, beat his man and dumped it out front. Mcaffery would cut it to 10-6 with 9:29 go with his second of the night, but Genny answered on the ensuing face-off when Glesner won the draw, dished to Fetterly who found a wide open Barber, who zipped it by Puma for a final of 11-6.