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Robur,
Honor, Fraternitas
Ave
Angele!
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Angels display little
mercy
Denver East keeps Ft Collins attack in check for
victory
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.
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."
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.
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Proud to be a
Nike Promo Team
There is no glory without
suffering, without sacrifice,
without dedication.
The suffering, sacrifice, and
dedication fade, but the glory is
forever.....
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Dillon Roy 2006
Captain Denver University '10
First Team
All-GWLL selection '09
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First Team
All-GWLL selection '08
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Gabe
Mann 2006
Captain Amherst College '09 & '10
Zach Tedeschi
2006
Johns Hopkins NCAA Championship '07
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Mark Hild 2005
Captain Franklin
Marshall '09
2nd Team All-Centennial Conference '08
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Adam Swarsen 2005
Captain
Hofstra University '08 & '09
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Hunter Combs
2004
Colorado
College All American '08
Will
Paddock
2004
Captain Bates College '08
Kip Malo 2001
Johns Hopkins
NCAA Championship '05
Jon Urbana
2001
Captain
Villanova 2004 & 2005
All American '04 & '05
Ian Wright
2001
Captain
Delaware 2005
Spencer Stenmark
2000
Captain
Harvard 2004
All Ivy 2004
All New
England 2004
Ben Winston 1999
Captain
Colby College 2003
All New England 2003
Gabe
Duncan-Roitman 1998
Captain Colby
College 2002
All American 2002
First team All-NESCAC 2002
All New
England 2002
Christian
Cook 1994
Captain
Princeton 1998
Princeton All American 1998
All Ivy 1998
NCAA
Championship '95, '97, '98
1998 NCAA
Defensive Player of the Year
2002 MLL Defensive Player of the Year
Travis Rundlet
1990
Captain Williams College1994
Jon Gottesfeld
1988
Colorado College All American '92
Terry
Claassen 1980
Captain Colorado College '84
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