For the first ten minutes of the Crossfire’s game against the Shooter’s Pub Devils, things were looking great.
Quesnel was up two quickly in the game. The score reflected the control the Crossfire had on the game and the fans, especially the kids with the lacrosse sticks who are there for every game, were hopeful Quesnel would see it’s first victory in the PGSLA.
Half way through the first, though, things started falling apart and the Crossfire were unable to put it back together.
“They made a couple adjustments, started using the fast break and really took it to us,” Pat Gibbs, coach and captain of the Crossfire, said.
The Devils started, armed with a fast break that could find it’s way past the Crossfire’s defence men, to pull away in the later half of the first. By the end of the period, the Crossfire had let the Devils slip away resulting in a 7-3 lead for the Devils after the first twenty minutes.
With the fast break working for the Devils, the Crossfire had to have all their scorers show themselves on the scoreboard, a need that never manifested through the second or the third.
There was hope in the third that the Devils, with a much shorter bench, would start to flag and give ground to a still-fresh Crossfire. However, despite the short bench, the Devils never showed any signs of flagging as they continued to score twice for every point the Crossfire managed.
Despite the growing number in the losses column, Gibbs is keeping positive as he sees his team getting better throughout the season.
Now they just have to translate that progress to numbers in the winning category.