{"id":33111,"date":"2023-06-01T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=33111"},"modified":"2023-06-01T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:32:25","slug":"sac-saints-upend-ucc-blues-10-2-in-cisaa-lacrosse-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/sac-saints-upend-ucc-blues-10-2-in-cisaa-lacrosse-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"SAC Saints upend UCC Blues 10-2 in CISAA Lacrosse Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anselmo Rego fired five goals and Brendan Wright added four more to lead the SAC Saints to a decisive 10-2 CISAA semi-final victory over the UCC Blues at the Yuill Family Sports Complex on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remarkably, Rego scored his five goals in the first half before being ejected early in the third quarter for what SAC Head Coach Joe Commisso described as \u201cback-to-back 2-minute penalties. Subsequently, that is too many penalties in field lacrosse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was, indeed, a penalty-filled affair. After UCC\u2019s sniper Luke Boyden cut SAC\u2019s lead to five at 7.50 of the third quarter, the Blues enjoyed a four-man advantage on a 6-on-2 power play and the game started to shift in the visitors\u2019 favour. Coach Commisso called his team\u2019s spirited defensive stand early in the second half the highlight of the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe best aspect of today\u2019s win was killing a 6-on-2 penalty. We were four men down and Campbell Ellis played incredibly in goal.\u201d  Ellis\u2019s reflexive skills were evident in two-point blank saves that preserved his team\u2019s 7-2 lead during the Saints\u2019 quarter of chronic shorthandedness. In addition to applauding the acrobatics of his netminder, Coach Commisso praised the efforts of \u201cNic Belmonte who was 100% in the draw circle\u201d and \u201cthe goal-scoring of Rego, Wright, and Ferrante.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belmonte, who played aggressively in the midfield from the opening whistle, was also tossed from the hard-hitting contest in the fourth quarter with the Saints leading 8-2. Coach Commisso explained the reason for his key face-off man\u2019s banishment to the sidelines: \u201cBelmonte was ejected for too many penalties, as well.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, Brendan Wright managed to stay on the field for the entire game and continued his productive season for the Saints by scoring four goals\u2014two in the first half and two in the second half. Nick Ferrante tallied SAC\u2019s tenth goal with six minutes remaining in the game to provide the margin of victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAC opened the scoring three minutes into the game when Rego evaded two UCC defenders and beat Blues goaltender Nik Kindbom to set the tone for the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Treyson Santos Stewart tied it 1-1 on a nice give-and-go by the Blues, Wright\u2019s howitzer from fifteen feet bulged the upper corner of the UCC net and restored the Saints\u2019 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rego scored his second of the afternoon in the last minute of the first quarter and collected his hat trick three minutes into the second quarter on a spinning, sensational individual effort to give SAC a 4-1 lead.  Ninety seconds later, Wright\u2019s shooting acumen was on full display during his second goal. Wright\u2019s submarine shot found the back of the net and compelled UCC\u2019s Head Coach Max Perren\u2014who also serves as the Head Coach of Team Ontario\u2019s U18 Lacrosse team\u2013to call a timeout to stem the rising red tide. At that point in the game, SAC had outshot UCC 21-5 and only the heroics of Blues netminder Kindbom kept the game close.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 2.25 to go in the first half, Rego elevated at the edge of the UCC crease to cash in his fourth goal to increase SAC\u2019s lead to 6-1. Less than two minutes later, he struck again with a nice bounce shot that got behind Kindbom to stake the Saints to a commanding 7-1 half-time lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After his team\u2019s semi-final victory, Coach Commisso commented on the keys to both defend his team\u2019s 2022 championship and beat St. Michael\u2019s College in the 2023 CISAA title game in Toronto: \u201cWe need to play physical and communicate on defense in order to win. They have a ton of skilled scorers, but we have really beaten ourselves on mistakes in the past two league games against SMC. We are geared up for a hard-nosed championship game at St. Mike\u2019s!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anselmo Rego fired five goals and Brendan Wright added four more to lead the SAC Saints to a decisive 10-2 CISAA semi-final victory over the UCC Blues at the Yuill Family Sports Complex on Wednesday afternoon. Remarkably, Rego scored his five goals in the first half before being ejected early in the third quarter for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8C3","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 05:56:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}