Clark Walters scored five goals and added an assist, while Dylan Foulds had an eight-point game that included four goals, to lead the Port Coquitlam Saints to a 12-12 tie with the Victoria Shamrocks in their BC Junior A Lacrosse League Saturday at the Q Centre.
It was the second straight tie for the Saints, who also battled the Coquitlam Adanacs to a 10-10 draw Friday at the PoCo rec centre.
In Victoria, Walters’ fifth goal with just 11 seconds left in the game capped the last of a series of comebacks all afternoon against the Shamrocks after the hosts opened the scoring after just a minute had been played.
Dylan Foulds sparked the first of the comebacks just five seconds after Brayden Brown had increased Victoria’s lead to 2-0. Foulds then tied it with his second goal of the game with just under six minutes remaining in the first period.
The Shamrocks reestablished their two goal margin less than a minute into the second period as Ben Preston and Jackson Boyd beat Saints’ goalie Diesel De Guzman 27 seconds apart.
Again it was Foulds who sparked a Saints’ comeback and Clark Walters, with his first, who got them on even terms.
It didn’t last, as Victoria scored four of the next five goals to hold a 8-5 lead with six minutes to play in the second period.
The Saints may have been down, but they weren’t out. They scored three straight goals in the period’s final five minutes to deadlock the game again heading into the third period.
The pattern continued in the third period: Victoria went ahead by a goal, PoCo tied it; the Shamrocks went up by two, the Saints battled back.
Then Jake Campbell’s go-ahead goal for Victoria with just over five minutes left on the clock appeared to be the decider, until Walters was able to convert a setup from Brodie Gillespie and Foulds that eluded Shamrocks’ keeper Cameron Dunkerley.
De Guzman stopped 36 of the 48 shots he faced in the Port Coquitlam net, while Dunkerley had 33 saves. Each stopped three shots in the scoreless overtime.
Friday against the Adanacs, the Saints squandered a 5-3 lead they held against the defending league champions midway through the second period, then battled back with three straight goals late in the third period to earn the tie. Neither team scored in overtime.
Gillespie and Jacob Patterson each scored hat tricks for the home team, while Ty Yanko led the Adanacs’ attack with three goals and three assists.
The Adanacs host the Burnaby Lakers on Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex. The Saints next game is against the league-leading New Westminster Jr. Salmonbellies on Friday, 8 p.m., at the PoCo rec centre.
