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Denver East easily advances
Russell's four goals help Angels hold off Arapahoe comeback

Chris Schneider © News
Arapahoe's Matt Pullara, left, advances the ball
while Denver East's Zach Miller, right, gives chase
Tuesday night in the Angels' 12-6 victory in the state
semifinals at Englewood High School.
STORY TOOLS
By Paul Willis, Special to the News
May 17, 2006
ENGLEWOOD - He says he likes passing better than scoring.

What a shame for Joshua Russell, then, because putting the ball in the net seems to be the Denver East sophomore's path to a prominent lacrosse career.

Russell scored four goals - two in acrobatic fashion - Tuesday night as the Angels beat Arapahoe 12-6 in the Class 5A semifinals at Englewood High School. Denver East will meet Cherry Creek on Saturday night in the championship game at Invesco Field at Mile High.

"I'm just glad my team is giving me the green light and has the faith in me to drive on my defender when he's pressing out on me," Russell said. "If they are going to say that I can, then I'm going to try my best to do it."

Russell scored two goals on shots that came after leaping in from behind the net. His first one put Denver East (17-1) ahead 2-0 and came with 6.4 seconds left in the first quarter. It helped the Angels, who also got a first-quarter score from Kjael Skaalerud, create momentum despite a fairly evenly played opening quarter.

Denver East parlayed the surge into a 7-0 lead late in the second quarter. Arapahoe (14-4) trimmed it to 7-2 at the half, but the Angels extended it to 10-2 on Skaalerud's third goal of the night late in the third quarter.

"I think we got beat by a better team, frankly," said Arapahoe coach Brian Langtry, also a Colorado Mammoth player.

"We would have needed a really good game to win this, and we had a couple chances early to do that, and we had guys who just couldn't finish."

Denver East goaltender Dudley Piet was tough in the net, particularly early when Arapahoe was matching the Angels' tempo. Piet stopped 12 of 18 shots overall and earned big praise from Russell.

"He's the hero of the team," Russell said. "He had about eight one-on-0's, just him and the shooter, and he made eight saves. Each one is just like a goal to me."

The Angels also received two goals apiece from Alex Vinton and Andrew Lay and one from Cody TallBull. Hamilton Blair contributed two assists. Arapahoe received two goals each from Eric Law and Stephen Gerhard, who added two assists.

Denver East won the previous matchup with Cherry Creek, winning 7-6 on April 22 in a game also played at Invesco Field.

"It's going to be even harder," Russell said of the championship game. "No mistakes allowed. They're not going to want to lose twice at Invesco."

Arapahoe......0 2 1 3 - 6
Denver East......2 5 3 2 - 12

Goals-assists - A, Stephen Gerhard 2-2, Eric Law 2-0, Drew Babb 1-0, Tyler Snyder 1-0,
Ryan Parietti 0-2, Bill Mercer 0-1; D, Joshua Russell 4-1, Kjael Skaalerud 3-1, Alex Vinton 2-0,
Andrew Lay 2-0, Cody TallBull 1-0, Hamilton Blair 0-2, Dillon Roy 0-1.

Shots on goal - Denver East 7-5-6-5 - 23; Arapahoe 4-4-6-4 - 18.
Goalie saves - A, Peyton Tyrie, 11 saves; D, Dudley Piet 12 saves.

 

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preps - boys lacrosse
Special setting lifts Angels

The first high school lacrosse game at Invesco Field at Mile High on Saturday was a thriller for players and fans alike.

Amid splendid afternoon weather and on perfectly manicured grass that's typically stomped on by Denver's beloved NFL team, the East boys held on in a back-and-forth affair to defeat defending state champion Cherry Creek 7-6 in the opening game of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Showdown.

Angels goalie Dudley Piet made his 10th and final save with five seconds to play, halting Cherry Creek's second rally of the second half to give East a 10-0 record on the season. The Bruins (9-2) scored the game's final two goals after East went ahead 7-4 with 7:16 to play.

"This is unbelievable," longtime Angels coach Jon Barocas said while the club teams from Colorado and Colorado State were warming up for the evening's second contest. "This is like playing back East in some of the nice stadiums back there. This is a really unique experience for our guys, and, hopefully, we're going to do this Showdown every year between us and them."

Sophomore attack Joshua Russell paced East with two goals, including the game-winner that made it 7-4. Teammate Kjael Skaalerud, a senior attack, had a goal and two assists for the Angels, who lost to Cherry Creek in last year's state playoffs.

"All my Little League years I've

been beating Creek and everything, then my freshman year we lost," Russell said. "This year is a big year for me and my team to come out and redeem ourselves. So it was a big game for us. We had our head on straight after a good week of practice."

Cameron Kerr and Peter Hoselton each had two goals for Cherry Creek, which is 9-3 including a loss in Long Island, N.Y. Goalie Mark Stone made eight saves.

"It was a great experience," Bruins coach Bryan Perry said. "It kind of goes out the window as soon as the whistle blows and the game's on, but it was still a great atmosphere. We would have liked to come out with a win, but this is something our guys will remember for a long time."

East 1 2 1 3 - 7
Cherry Creek 1 1 2 2 - 6

Goals: East - Russell (2), Allison, Tedeschi, Skaalerud, Connor, TallBull; CC - Kerr (2), Hoselton (2), Will, Platt. Assists: East - Skaalerud (2), Bailey. CC - R. Driver. Saves: East - 10 (Piet). CC - 8 (Stone).

 

Angels display little mercy
Denver East keeps Ft Collins attack in check for victory

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<>David M. Barreda © News
Denver East's Josh Russell, left, encounters resistance from Fort Collins' Alex Kaufman (33) and Chris Meda during their lacrosse match Friday at All-City Stadium. With their victory, the Angels, ranked No. 3 in Class 5A, improved to 3-0, and did so with strong defense. 

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By Adam Dunivan, Special to the News
March 25, 2006

The Denver East boys lacrosse team has had a history rich with talented individuals on championship-caliber teams.

But perhaps the Angels never have had a defense quite like this one. Friday, against fourth- ranked Fort Collins, one of the state's toughest midfield teams, the No. 3 Angels proved once again that if the state title this year comes down to defense, they will be tough to bring down.

While the Angels dusted the Vipers 11-6 at All-City Stadium to improve to 3-0, Fort Collins managed only two goals against Denver East's starting corps in the loss.  The Vipers (3-1) were added to the list of playoff-type teams - which, so far, also includes Columbine and Arapahoe - that the Angels simply have halted in the offensive zone.

"They have some good middies, and we did a good job shutting them down," University of Denver-bound senior Dillon Roy said. "We're stingy about our goals, but we've pulled together and shaken off the rust so far."

The Vipers, fresh off a trip from Florida, where they won two games against out-of-state competition, had trouble throughout with finishing passes in the offensive zone. Their failure to set up good plays kept them from coming back from a 6-0 deficit in the second quarter.

"We didn't value the ball (Friday)," Fort Collins coach Carey Smith said. "The turnovers and unforced errors never allowed us to get into an offense. The defense played hard, but we spent too much time on defense for anything good to happen."

Those turnovers also kept the senior scoring trio of Nate Jestes and twins Jared and Jacob Houghton relatively silent. Jestes scored one of four goals late, and Jared Houghton got the Vipers on the board with 1 minute, 39 seconds left in the second quarter.

The three had combined for 18 goals in the Vipers' previous three contests.

"I'm a little disappointed," Smith said. "I think we are still on a Florida hangover, and we had some young guys who struggled in the attack. We're a better team than that, and we'll be different by the end of the year."

The Angels were not just supreme on the defensive side of the ball. Seven players scored goals for Denver East in a balanced attack.  Zach Tedeschi, who scored the team's first goal, at the 6:30 mark of the first, tallied three scores, and teammates Alex Vinton and Kjael Skaalerud each scored twice.  The streaky Angels did not let down after gaining the six-goal lead, even when the Vipers cut it to 6-2 with Henry Miketa's quick goal at the 9:11 mark of the third quarter.

Vinton's second goal, a one-time shot assisted by Josh Russell in front of the goal, got the Angels up by five goals and started a string of five more scores to put the game away.

"We were moving it well, but we want to be faster," Roy said. "If we tighten up a little bit, we should be set."

Fort Collins......0

1

1

4

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6

Denver East......3

3

1

4

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11

Goals-assists - FC, Conner Saller 2-0, Henry Miketa 1-1, Jared Houghton 1-0, Nate Jestes 1-0, Tyler Whitcomb 1-0; DE, Zach Tedeschi 3-1, Kjael Skaalerud 2-1, Alex Vinton 2-0, Josh Russell 1-3, Ben Allison 1-1, Russell Clark 1-0, Bailey Connor 1-0.

Shots on goal - FC 11, DE 20. Goalie saves - FC, Andy Titterington 1-1-4-3 - 11; DE, Piet Dudley 2-1-3-0 - 6, Richie Londer 0-0-0-0 - 0.


March 18, 2006
Allison sets up Angels' win
By Brady Delander
Special to
The Denver Post

Ben Allison is a giving guy. His teammates on the defensive side of East's boys lacrosse team are not.

Allison assisted on five goals - three to Zach Tedeschi and two to Kjael Skaalerud - and the Angels defense set up a stick-wielding wall in front of the net against Columbine on Saturday at All-City Stadium.

That, along with a new-look offense, gave East an 11-2 victory in its season opener.

Tedeschi, who will play for powerhouse Johns Hopkins University, and Skaalerud scored three goals apiece, John Russell had two goals and two assists, and goalkeeper Piet Dudley stopped 4-of-5 Columbine shots before being replaced in the second half.

But it was Allison who got things started.

Three minutes into the game, Allison rifled a pass inside to Skaalerud, who faked high and shot right for the opening score. Allison then set up behind the net before finding Tedeschi, who unleashed an underhanded stroke to open a two-goal lead.

"I was a goal scorer last year on the crease, but I've moved outside with the new offense. I'd rather assist than score anytime," said Allison, who described the offense as a simple rotation.

The Angels, state champions in 2000, took a 6-0 lead with a goal initiated by - who else? - Allison and finished by Skaale- rud.

The Rebels (2-1) got on the scoreboard with 2 minutes left in the first half, when Andy Carstensen found Tyler Konrath alone in front of the net for a 1-on-1 shot.

Carstensen added a goal of his own late in the game on Columbine's only shot of the second half.

The Rebels' best quarter was the second, when they recorded four of their six shots-on-goal. Other than that, it was slim pickings in the face of East's defense.

Columbine 0 1 0 1 - 2

East 4 2 5 0 - 11

Goals - Konrath, Carstensen; Tedeschi 3, Skaalerud 3, Russell 2, Connor, Tallbull, Vinton. Assists - Carstensen, Steinman; Allison 5, Russell 2, Skaalerud 2.

Shots on goal - Columbine 1-4-0-1 - 6; East 6-5-5-4 - 20. Saves - Columbine (Steinman) 2-3-0-4 - 9; East (Dudley and Londer) 1-3-0-0 - 4.