Inspired Seaford Boys Lacrosse Downs North Shore

Inspired by a teammates’ loss, the Seaford boy’s lacrosse team dominated the first half on its way to an easy 10-5 home victory over North Shore. The Vikings are now 5-1 overall and 1-0 in Conference C.

“Unfortunately a member of our team lost his father today, Glen Kennedy, and I think the kids really rallied around that,” said Seaford head coach Mike Corcoran. “We dedicated the game to him and that’s why you saw so much intensity out of us. This game was just about playing for Glen and his family.”

Seaford opened the scoring just 31 seconds in when Anthony Marino fed Will Montgomery. Tommy Curran found Kevin Glazer just over a minute later to double the lead.

It took another seven minutes, but back-to-back goals from Joe Richards put Seaford up 4-0. Dan Arena scored to put the Vikings up by five and Marino closed out the quarter with a leaping goal.

Seaford started the second quarter where it left off the first, when Curran scored an unassisted goal to go up 7-0.

Curran only tallied one goal and one assist in the contest but seemed to dictate the offensive tempo for Seaford.

“Tommy pushes it,” said Corcoran of Curran’s play. “He’s a kid who plays 110 percent all the time. “He just keeps going and waits for a mistake and usually capitalizes on it. He’s just a hustle kid.”

North Shore looked poised to get on the board after a Seaford penalty, but turned the ball over on its extra-man offense.

Brian Grazio tallied s goal for Seaford to go up 8-0 and Anthony Silvestri picked up a ground ball off of a turnover and fed John Carroll who scored to give Seaford its biggest lead of the game.

“Offensively, we just moved the ball,” said Corcoran. I thought it was a real team effort in the first half.”

Following Carroll’s goal, North Shore won its first face-off of the game, after losing the first nine to Seaford.

The face-off victory seemed to turn the tide a little bit, as North Shore held Seaford scoreless for the last four and a half minutes of the first half and tallied its first goal of the game, a score by Jacob Venditto.

The pace of the game slowed after halftime, as did the scoring. It took over four minutes before anyone found the back of the net, and it was North Shore again, on a second goal by Venditto.

Marino matched for Seaford to make the lead 10-2. Two straight goals from North Shore, including one by eighth grader Jack Goettelmann, cut the lead to 10-4 heading into the final quarter.

“We did put a few new subs in, we were playing two different goalies and I think we dropped our intensity a little bit,” said Corcoran. “They just came out and played a good second half.”

The aggressiveness and hitting increased in the fourth quarter, but the numbers on the scoreboard barely did, as only one goal was scored in the last 12 minutes.

North Shore scored that goal with 4:19 to play in the game, but Seaford coasted through the final quarter easily winning its first conference game.

Seaford is in next in action at home on Monday night for a non-league game against neighboring Wantagh starting at 7 p.m.