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Slow start? No problem for high-scoring Bantam Mustangs

Johnson scores three as Moose Jaw takes 8-2 win over Weyburn Thrashers at Mosaic Place
You don’t see very many 1-0 games in lacrosse, but for the better part of two periods in the contest between the Moose Jaw Bantam Mustangs and Weyburn Thrashers on Monday night at Mosaic Place, that’s exactly where the score sat.

Well, until Josh Johnson and Rowan Calvert got things going for the home team. After that it was business as usual as the Mustangs took an 8-2 win in South Saskatchewan Lacrosse League action.

“We started off slow, it was like everyone didn’t want to play,” Johnson said shortly after his thre-goal effort paced the Moose Jaw comeback. “The last time we played them in Swift Current we beat them 12-something, so maybe we thought ‘oh, since we beat them, they might just give us the win’. But they didn’t, they worked for it and gave a really good effort.

“But once we got a couple goals in the second period and the end and a couple early in the third, that’s when we really started going.”

Calvert scored the Mustangs first goal with 2:41 remaining in the second period to tie the game 1-1 after Weyburn had taken a 1-0 lead with a late goal in the opening frame. Johnson added another marker 1:07 later and his second goal early in the third swung momentum solidly in the Mustangs’ favour.

“We started rolling once we got that goal at the end of the second… things were a lot better after that,” Johnson said.

Dalton Cushway, Lukas Salkin, Ashton Glova and Eric Woodley all added third period goals.

Luke Andrews and Walker Williams spit time in net and were their usual solid selves in keeping their team close until the floodgates opened.

The Bantam Mustangs are back in action May 8 when they travel to Weyburn for a rematch with the Thrashers.

 

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