Offensively, the Vancouver Stealth continued their fine play of late as for the third straight game, they scored 13 goals or more.
Unfortunately, the team came up one goal short on Saturday night, falling 16-15 in overtime to the Rochester Knighthawks in National Lacrosse League action.
The game was played at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester and the loss dropped the Stealth to 2-4 on the National Lacrosse League season.
Rochester improved to 3-2.
“We made some good plays out there, we just made some mistakes that cost us,” Stealth coach Dan Perreault said to NLL.com. “They battled hard. It was a close game. Rochester is a good team, they played us hard and they came on hard. It was good that we battled back, but it came down to one shot at the end of the game and they hit it. We had a lead during the game and just made a few mistakes.”
The Stealth squandered a 8-3 second quarter lead and needed a Rhys Duch goal with 20 seconds to play just to force overtime.
But Rochester’s Cody Jamieson had the only goal of the overtime period to nab the two points for the home team.
“There’s positives and negatives to take away,” said Vancouver’s Garrett Billings.
“This team is really coming together as a group … but we’ve got to cut out the stupid mistakes.
“I had a couple myself. On that one five-on-four, I stayed on the floor and I shouldn’t have. We’ve just got to clean those things up.”
Logan Schuss continued his hot run of late, finished with two goals and 10 points for Vancouver.
Billings and Duch each had three goals and eight points for the Stealth while Corey Small had three goals and three assists. Eric Penney made 38 saves in the loss.
Schuss and Billings both hit double figures in loose balls as well, scooping up 12 and 10 respectively, while defender Jeff Moleski was also active with nine.
As a team, the Stealth picked up 83 loose balls compared to the Knighthawks’ 66.
The Stealth will look to get back on track when they host the Calgary Roughnecks (3-4) on Saturday night at the Langley Events Centre. Game time is 7 p.m.
