The Six Nations Arrows have gone from in serious trouble down two games to none, to one game away from calling themselves Minto Cup champions.
The Arrows scored the only five goals of the third period to defeat the Coquitlam Adanacs 12-7 in the pivotal game five of the best-of-seven junior A lacrosse championship series on Aug.21 at the 91原创 Events Centre.
Game five saw the teams trading who had control.
Six Nations led 5-1 before getting into penalty trouble, which allowed Coquitlam to cut the deficit to 5-3 after 20 minutes.
The Adanacs continued that momentum and led 7-6 at one point in the second period. But the Arrows tied it prior to intermission and then did all of the scoring in the third period.
鈥淚t was where we wanted to be going into the third,鈥� said Arrows head coach Marshall Abrams.
鈥淏rendan Bomberry came up huge for us and we鈥檙e fortunate to come out with a win.鈥�
Bomberry scored three of the Arrows five third period goals, while holding the Adanacs scoreless in the final frame.
鈥淲e had our chances in the third, which would鈥檝e been huge seeing as we didn鈥檛 score any goals that period,鈥� said Eli McLaughlin.
鈥淲e鈥檒l regroup, get a team meal in and watch some film and cut down on our mistakes.鈥�
鈥淚 believe in the boys, the boys believe and we just have to get ready for these elimination games,鈥� said McLaughlin.
Game six of the series is on Saturday (Aug. 23) night with an 8 p.m. start.
If necessary, game seven would be the following night, also at 8 p.m.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.ca or at the LEC box office, which opens at 5 p.m. on game nights.
