Week #5 Suspended Game vs Gansett Grays 8-9 OT L (2-4)

Last night's conclusion of the Week #5 suspended game was the longest 12 days, four quarters with one overtime period and was quite easily the most exciting game in team history...hold your heads high, Silver Sachems 8 - Gansett Grays 9 (OT).

The game was marked by a suspension due to an injury to one of our players with the score at 3-5 at half time. The first half played on July 13th was a tightly played contest with Sachem scores from Tom O'Rourke #12, Todd Geraughty #6 and Juice #23 with goalie John Decesere #15 chipping in an assist on a 60 yard pass. The game was suspended at half time by mutual consent following a serious injury to Josh Fenton. Under nearly identical weather conditions of light rain, the game was resumed last night with the Grays extending their lead to 3-6 less than a minute into the start of the second half.

The Sachems then went on an impressive four goal run with tallies by Brian Crowley #14, Mark Gough #8 and two from Steve Hooper #19 on assists by Juice #23 who finished the game with a four point effort. The Grays came back with two goals of their own making it 8-7 until Steve Hooper scored his third goal of the game with just 15 seconds remaining in regulation. After a five minute break, the 10 minute, "Sudden Victory" overtime period began with goalie John Decesere turning away two point blank shots.

However, the game ended on a 70 yard rush from the Grays' tall defenseman #55 who fired the game winner from just inside the restraining box. Our team showed amazing resilency throughout the game by coming back from 3-5 and 3-6. We should be incredibly proud of the fact that, while the record will show we lost the game, we came back from a two-goal deficit to win last night's second half 5-4. Because of the Sunday restart and earlier injuries we played with an offense missing Josh Fenton #22, George Finn #9, Justin Feingold #44 and Pete Davis #38 as well as playing without key defensive starters Greg Anderson #3, Erik Winton #27 and LSM Joe Towers #37. Despite the loss of players we dominated the ground ball war 29-20, outshot them 23-22 and won the faceoff battle 11-9. The game will likely go down as one of the best efforts of the season and the most exciting game in franchise history. We hope to build on the effort as we close out the season with two remaining home games against teams (Misfits and Salty Old Buzzards) who are comprised of a number of former Sachems.