Venom Sting Tigers In Final Second:

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Venom sting Tigers in final second

By Nicole Berg
Morning Star

The outcome was all decided in less than a second.
Duncan Schulz corralled a loose ball in the corner, quickly cut to the net, and took a diving shot which eluded goalie Josh Phillips with 0.4 of a second remaining as the Kamloops Venom bounced the Vernon Re/Max Tigers 9-8 in Game 1 of the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League championship series Tuesday night at Wesbild Centre.
Game 2 in the best-of-five final series went Thursday night in Kamloops. The third game goes Saturday night (7:30) at Wesbild Centre. Game 4, if required, is Monday, while a fifth game would o Wednesday in Vernon.
The winner advances to the provincial tournament, July 31-Aug. 3 at Archie Browning Arena in Victoria.
"It was unbelievable to get that goal right before the buzzer sounded to win the game," said Venom coach Al Forster. "We didn't play as well as we could have in the first period as we came out of the period down 3-1, but we came back and held a 6-5 lead coming out of the second. In the third, we pulled together, determined not to give up. Vernon's a strong team who never gives up and their captain Robbie Short (three goals) played incredible. We have to watch out for him."
The fifth-place Venom opened the scoring 61 seconds in with slick Riley Donahue pocketing his first of four goals on the night.
"Knowing we were down in the third period, we knew we had to step it up and really play hard if we wanted to win," said Donahue, who had 33 points in the regular season. "Vernon played us hard and they're a really tight team defensively so it's hard to get any balls past them, but we found a way tonight, and we'll have to keep that up if we want to win this series."
Vernon pulled away with a 3-1 first-period lead on goals by Ryan Landels, Jordan Jarvis and James Dobrowolski.
The game turned in Kamloops' favour in the second period, as they outscored Vernon 4-2 on goals by Cole Eustache, Rob Peterson, and a pair by Donahue, to take over the lead at 6-5. Short provided two goals for the Cats.
Eustache, Schulz, and Donahue notched the remaining Kamloops goals. Jarvis, Braidy Webb, and Short replied for Vernon.
Stu Ford made 46 saves in net for Kamloops, while Phillips stopped 43 shots.
"It was up and down both ways," said Vernon coach Rich Zecchel. "It was a good, hard-fought game on both sides. We ran into a few problems defensively when Kamloops got the majority of their goals in the second period. We showed lots of heart though by battling back and came within a tie but it wasn't enough to win the game."