The Port Coquitlam Saints got back to their winning ways with a pair of victories last weekend.
The B.C. Jr. ‘A’ Lacrosse League team got the ball rolling on Friday at home, when they came back from being down at the midway point in the game to defeat the New Westminster Salmonbellies 6-5 in overtime.
Ryland Rees’ goal-scoring heroics ended the back-and-forth affair and gave the Saints the team’s fifth win of the season.
But a victory was far from a certainty in the early parts of the game.
Mitchell Flintoff opened the scoring for the visitors before making it 2-1 a few minutes later. Early in the second, the Bellies added an insurance marker when Adam Dickson found the back of the net to make it 3-1 New West.
However, the Saints began to show some signs of life when Ty Klarner potted his eighth of the season and Keegan Bell tied things up at the midway mark of the middle frame.
Liam Thomas scored to briefly give the Saints a lead, but New West was able to tie things up again before the second intermission. Both teams scored in the third, forcing overtime.
PoCo kept up its pace the next day at the Q Centre in Victoria where the Saints took on the Shamrocks.
Connor Frost scored a hat trick in the match, while Bell had two goals and two assists and Rees scored two goals and one assist.
With a minute left in the game, the Saints looked to be in control with an 11-8 lead. However, Victoria’s Nick Preston and Marshal King gave their fans hope with two quick goals 21 seconds apart. The Saints held on and the final score was 11-10.
