Exeter 12  Moses Brown  11
Sat, 4/17, Providence, RI - In a very exciting game that featured very good offense on the part of both teams, Exeter came away with a 12-11 victory to notch their eighth win of the season without a defeat. Exeter's game plan of shutting down the opposition's top two scoring middies worked very well, but to Mo Brown's credit, their other offensive players stepped up and found a way to score and keep the game close. Mo Brown scored first early in the game. Exeter tied the score at 1-1 late in the quarter as leading scorer Tom Petty (3g,3a) scored an unassisted goal from the left side. Exeter scored the next two goals as Tom Petty and game ball winner Michael Scalise (3goals) each found the net. This put Exeter up 3-1, but Mo Brown came back to tie the game with only two minutes until halftime. Bobby Goulding controlled the subsequent faceoff, and Sloan Smith (3g,1a) scored the first of his hat trick off a nice assist from linemate Chris Davis. Bobby dominated faceoffs all day, and with less than a minute until halftime, he not only controlled the ball, but also came down and scored Exeter's 5th goal off a Sloan Smith assist. A last second penalty caused Exeter to start the 2nd half man-down, and Mo Brown converted to make it a 5-4 game and take away some of the momentum Exeter had accumulated. The game seesawed back and forth the rest of the 3rd quarter with Exeter always ahead by one or in a tie. Sloan Smith, Tom Petty, and Chris Davis scored Exeter's three 3rd quarter goals, and the period ended 8-7. After Michael Scalise converted a nice feed from Tom Petty, and Sloan Smith ripped an unassisted left-hander into the lower corner, Exeter's 3-goal lead with less than six minutes remaining in the final period looked reasonably comfortable. Although Mo Brown narrowed the lead to 10-8, Eric Horan responded off a Tom Petty assist to push the lead back to 11-8 with just four minutes to play. Once again Mo Brown scored to narrow the margin to two, but a Michael Scalise rocket off the pipe finished off his hat trick heroics and pushed the lead back to 12-9 with exactly two minutes to play. Exeter won the faceoff and controlled the ball until a passing error turned it over in their offensive zone with only 30 seconds remaining. Amazingly, Mo Brown threw the ball the length of the field and managed to score off a loose ball scramble in front of the Exeter goal with 11 seconds left in the game. Exeter fell asleep in the last 11 seconds and let Mo Brown win the faceoff, run a fast break, and score their 11th goal with just one second remaining. Although this game was not Exeter's usual great defensive effort, the Big Red did what they needed to do to remain undefeated. Long poles Tom Rubel, Jon Reed, Alex Zani, Gus Davidson, Brett Hughes, and Ian Drummond took turns shutting down Mo Brown's top two scorers. It is a good sign when the offense can come through when the defense is struggling, and that is exactly what happened in this game. Click here for game pics

Team	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	Game Total
Exeter	1	4	3	4	12
Moses Brown	1	2	4	4	11

Game Ball Winner(s) - Michael Scalise

Game Scoring - Goals - Smith(3), Petty(3), Scalise(3), Horan, Davis, Goulding

                           Assists - Petty(3), Davis(2), Goulding, Smith, Mayer

Saves/Shots on Goal - Rodier 9/20