Joe Resetarits Lifts Peterborough Lakers Past Brampton Excelsiors With Four-Goal Performance
/The Peterborough Lakers get their first win of the season led by a four-goal performance from Joe Resetarits to defeat the Brampton Excelsior 12-6 at the Brampton Memorial Arena on Thursday night.
Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Lakers.
It was an evenly matched first period as both teams racked up three goals apiece. Taite Cattoni, Dylan Hutchinson and Resetarits scored for the Lakers.
The second frame was all Peterborough. Resetarits scored as fast as the period started for his second goal of the game. Holden Cattoni tacked on another for the Lakers to give a 5-3 lead for Peterborough.
While the Excelsior had a chance to get back in theg ame with a power play, the Lakers flipped the momentum as Resetarits scoreed a hat trick shorthanded to continue Peterborough’s run.
Three more Lakers goals from Austin Hasen, Holden and Taylor Jensen got on the board while shutting out the Excelsiors in the second period and Peterborough had a 9-3 lead heading into the final frame.
Lakers goaltender Doug Buchan stood strong and kept Brampton scoreless for 30:42.
Brampton finally found some footing to open the third, getting two straight goals thanks to Pent Eistrat and Holden Patterson but the Lakers matched them goal-for-goal. Resetarits and Mitch Ogilvie scored back-to-back to negate Brampton’s goals. One more goal apiece on each side ended the game with newly-acquired Rob Hellyer getting the last goal for the Lakers and walk off with a 12-6 win.
“It’s fun being on the right side against those guys for once and being on that bench,” said Hellyer. “I’ve played against a lot of the Lakers for a long time so being on the same side is a lot of fun. There’s always some growing pains, the first period was a little bit like that, but at the end of the day it’s lacrosse, so it was fairly seamless.”
The Lakers come back to Peterborough for their home opener against the Brooklin Lacrosse Club on Thursday at 8 p.m.
