The second game of the day was a closely contested match up between Adirondack and Central, the result of which determined the silver and bronze medals.  The game started off with Adirondack in control and ended with Central making a major comeback in the second half.
  
Adirondack scored first just 0:57 into the game when John Olsen scored after backing his defenseman up past the restraining line and then planting his foot to turn and execute a jump shot that rocketed past near side post.  With 1:18 left in the quarter Adirondack struck again when Matthew Crimmins scored on a cross-crease pass from Sam Bradman.  The first quarter ended with ADK up 2-0 against Central.
  
ADK kept up the pressure in the second quarter scoring at 6:52 as Bradman hit the back of the net with a hard shot from outside (assisted by Steven D’Amario).  With 5:27 Adirondack increased their lead, this time when Daniel McKinney drove straight down the right side of the field and fired the shot home against Central’s goalie, Jordan Marra.
  
Over the last two minutes of the half Central scored three goals.  At 1:37 Tim Rommel drove in from the side causing a crease slide and leaving Mike Fetterly open for his first of three goals.  Fetterly finished the 2007 Games with 14 goals and led all scorers on all teams.  With 0:52 remaining, Luke Cometti scored on bounce shot that went over Patrick Sweeney’s stick.  Finally, with 0:24 remaining Fetterly scored the same way as he had only 1:13 earlier except with the feed from Zac Guy.  Going into the half Adirondack held on to a 4-3 lead.
   
Adirondack scored the first two goals of the third quarter to increase their lead to 6-4.  Aaron Lupo cut to the inside and scored on a D’Amario assist and Olsen scored his second, unassisted.  Central returned, however, and scored the next five goals to take and hold on to the lead over the next quarter and a half.  Rob Grimm scored the first goal with a drive from behind the cage.  Grimm assisted the next goal to Fetterly as Central scored on a slow break.  The score was 6-5 ADK going into the third quarter.
  
Central’s John Greely scored with a hard drive from the front and a low shot that bounced off a stick and dribbled past Ian O’Brien at 8:03 to tie the game up 6-6.  For the first time Central took the lead in the game with their score at 5:36 when Steve Ianzito scored on a broken clear after intercepting an outlet pass from the keeper.  The final central goal came as Grimm looked behind the cage and saw Rommel cutting towards GLE. Grimm hit Rommel just as he came around the corner.  D’Amario scored with 3:12 remaining on a cut from behind the cage, but it was not enough to stop the Central comeback.
   
Central’s Jordan Marra played the entire game and faced 19 shots while recording 12 saves (63%).  O’Brien and Sweeny split haves in the cage.  O’Brien faced 9 shots recording 4 saves (44%) while Sweeney faced 6 shots with 3 saves (50%).
  
One of the most interesting moments of the game occurred at the sidelines as lacrosse fans worked to figure out the “math” involved in determining who would get the silver and bronze medals.  Before the game began it was known that if Central won, they would win the Silver and Western would win the Bronze based on their records.  If Adirondack were to beat Central then Central, Western and Adirondack would have been tied with records of 3-2. 
  
Procedure dictates that the next criteria is head-to-head but since each team had beaten one opponent and lost to another it moved on to the next criteria, “goals scored against” your team.  If two or more teams had the same number of total goals scored goals against them, then the medals would be decided based on a coin toss.  With Western having already played it was known that they had 40 goals against and before the game started, Central was at 33 and Adirondack was at 37. 
  
ADK needed to win by more then four and beat Central while keeping Central under 2 goals in order to win the Silver medal. As the game progressed different options seemed more or less likely and the sidelines were abuzz during most of the games, while fans tried to figure out the “what ifs”.
  
In the end, however, the simplest solution came to the front. Central won the game outright and with the second best record, earned the silver medal, while Western took the bronze on the basis of their lower “goals against”.
  

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