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Columbus Tops Cincinnati 11-10
To Win MCLC
Big Third
Quarter Key For Columbus,
Cincy Comeback
Falls Short
A big third quarter that had Columbus outscoring Cincinnati
7-2, made the difference and brought the Midwest Cities Lacrosse Clubs
Championship trophy to Columbus.
Rance Stilphin(Moeller) and Eric Clapp (Moeller) staked
the Queen City team to a 2-0 lead early, but Columbus goals by Rob
Offenberger (Denison) and Matt McSweeney (Butler) tied the score
at 2-2 at the end of the first period.
 Canadian National Team member
and former Butler All American Darcy Sweet put Columbus in front 3-2
early in the second period. Cincinnati's Sean Eldridge
(Rochester Institute of Technology) scored twice to put Cincinnati back in
front. When Columbus' Steve Gloeckner (OSU)
and Cincinnati's Tad George (Moeller), Mariemont Head Coach, trade
goals, the boys from the river held at 5-4 half time lead. Cincinnati
goalie Jeff Bolyard (Notre Dame) had nine first have saves.
Gloeckner found the net just 1:46 into the second half and Sweet
added his second score for a 6-5 Columbus lead. Former Delphi stand
out Ken King scored the first of this three goals at 8:13 in the
third to tie the score at 6. But Columbus went on a 4-0 run on goals by
Doug McKearns, Matt Lee (OSU), McSweeny, and Greg
Zytkowski (OSU) to push the lead to 10-6. Eldridge scored this
third and Offenberger his second on an assist from Gloeckner
and it was 11-7 Columbus at the end of three quarters.
 King got his second goal and Dan Fisher (OSU) scored for Cincinnati
and King's third goal with 1:24 to play brought Cincinnati to within one at
11-10. Cincy controlled the face off, but three great saves by
Columbus goalie Matt Schwabower (OSU) in the last twenty seconds
denied the Cincinnati Orange the tie and made Columbus the champs. "Swabie"
had 17 saves for the game.
In other MCLC action Cleveland defeated Lakeshore (Chicago)
7-6 to capture third place. It was Lincoln Park (Chicago) 9 and
Chicago 5 for 5th and 6th place, while Twin Cities defeated
Motor City 15-4 in the final consolation game.
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