By Matt Chandik
Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 5/19/17
The Haverford School and Culver Academy (IN) will meet again for the Inter-Ac Invitational after claiming victories Friday night in the semifinals at Cabrini University.Image may be NSFW.
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Culver, the defending tourney champion and No. 2 in the C2C North America Rankings, held off Episcopal Academy, 6-5, to improve to 20-1. Culver’s only loss this year was to Haverford School, 8-7 in double overtime on March 26. Austin Madronic and Jackson Reid each scored twice tonight for Culver, which held a 6-1 lead in the fourth period and saw the Churchmen (11-5) nearly pull off an amazing comeback. Nate Emrick had four goals for EA.
The Fords (16-6), the Inter-Ac League champions, advance with a 13-10 win over rival Malvern Prep as Luke O’Grady scored three goals and Parker Henderer posted 11 saves. Joel Trucksess won 15 of 24 faceoffs and scored once and Adam Salvaggio had two goals for the Fords, while TJ Malone, John Nostrant and Scott Deck each had a goal and an assist.
Haverford and Culver also met in last year’s final; Culver won that game, 8-7, after also topping the Fords, 9-8, in overtime early in the season.
In the 2015 season, Haverford closed a 26-0 campaign by defeating Culver, 13-9.
This event is run by Victory Events. The Sports Fan Base Network will broadcast the finals LIVE on its Facebook page. To watch the broadcast, go to WWW.SFBN.LIVE and that will take you right to the Facebook page where the games can be seen.
The streamed games will be FREE OF CHARGE and are presented by title sponsor, Rothman Orthopedics.
Links to replays of the semifinal games:
EA-Culver – https://www.facebook.com/TheSportsFanBaseNetwork/videos/1545322698825133/
Malvern-Haverford – https://www.facebook.com/TheSportsFanBaseNetwork/videos/1545213702169366/
Culver Academy 6, Episcopal Academy 5
Episcopal Academy 1 0 0 4 – 5
Culver 1 3 2 0 – 6
Culver
Jackson Reid 2g, 1a
Austin Madronic 2g
Jake Stevens 1g, 1a
Alex Simmons 1g
Cam Chauvette 1a
Matt Schmidt 8 saves
Episcopal Academy
Nate Emrick 4g
Conner Delaney 1g
CJ McAnally 1a
Gabe Furey 1a
Cole Johnson 1a
Jake Floyd-Jones 14 saves
Haverford School 13, Malvern Prep 10
Malvern Prep 1 2 5 2 – 10
Billy Coyle 3g
Sean Christman 2g, 1a
Jack Traynor 1g, 1a
Mike Fay 1g
Scottie White 1g
Quinn McCahon 1g
Jimmy Gabrielsen 1g
Andrew Clark 10 saves
Haverford School 2 5 3 3 – 13
TJ Malone 1g, 1a
Luke O’Grady 3g
Adam Salvaggio 2g
Johnny Nostrant 1g, 1a
Chris Hervada 1g
Peter Garno 1g
Scott Deck 1g, 1a
Conner Mosebrook 1g
Joel Trucksess 1g, 15-for-24 faceoffs
Mac Costin 1g
Payton Hollway 1a
Parker Henderer 11 saves