June
22, 2007
'B' Divison -
Championship game
Lamp Lighters (1) - Stinges (2) 4:3
By Joe
Balan
In
what some are calling the team of the
century or at least the past year, the
Lamp Lighters completed their near
perfect season by beating the stingers 4-3
in the Belmont Cup finals.
Coming
into the game, Vegas had the odds at 3-1
in favor of the Lamp Lighters. The
Stingers who were defending champions,
had suffered a major set back with the
loss of Keith Taylor in the previous
playoff game.
Post
game interview revealed the Stingers had
put a strategy together to prevent MVP
Daniel Hesselson from scoring. Likewise,
the Lamp Lighters attempted put the same
strategy in place for the whole Stingers
team.
In
a hard fought game that saw the Stingers
lead 2-0 and 3-2, the LL's finally took
the lead in the third 4-3 and held on for
victory. It was the closest championship
game in the league history. The Lamp
Lighters ended their season with an
overall record of 13-0-1, a feat that may
never be surpassed again. Only the 1972
Miami Dolphins and the Winter 2007 Lamp
Lighters have had seasons in which no one
had beat them in regulation play and then
went on to win the championship.
After
the game the captain of the LL's Joe
Balan said, "There was no other way
we wanted to win this thing. We wanted to
play the defending champions and play the
team that took a point away from us
earlier in the season." The Stingers
have one of the most successful
franchises in league history and it is
going to be sad to see the team moved to
a new city. But those guys should hold
their heads up high for the game they
played. In the end there can be only one."
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1 |
2 |
3 |
Final |
Stingers
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2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
Lamp
Lighters
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1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
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Scoring
Summary |
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1st period |
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Stingers |
James Marihart (N.Parkin,
# 58) |
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Stingers |
Fracis Albert (M.Allen,
D.Cunningham) |
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Lamp Lighters |
Brent Jenkins (D.Hesselson,
A.Falcon) |
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2nd period |
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Lamp Lighters |
Brent Jenkins |
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Stingers |
Neil Parkin (D.Cunningham,
M.Allen) |
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3rd period |
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Lamp Lighters |
Joe Balan (pp) (D.Hesselson,
B.Spiro) |
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Lamp Lighters |
Andy Han (B.Spiro) |
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Goalies |
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Stingers |
Mark Fassett |
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Lamp Lighters |
Craig Nash |
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