Saturday Games - ESG 2007

July 28, 2007 - Long Island captured the Gold on Saturday, when they defated Central, but the Silver and Bronze medals are still up for grabs on Sunday.
    
Western began the first game as the dominant force, winning the first two face-offs and controlling the ball in the offensive area of the field. Hudson Valley came back to make it a close game. In the end it was Western 6 - Hudson Vally 4. The full game report is available here.
  
In the 4:30 game, it was Adirondack over New York City 7-5. Although New York City opened up the scoring with the only two goals of the first quarter, Adirondack came back and outscored NYC 7-3 in the last three. Scott Margolis scored the first goal of the contest (assisted by Anthony Adler). With Only 0:23 left in the first quarter Adler scored one of his own. The full report is available here.
  
In what was expected to be the best game of the tournament, Long Island was the 12-7 winner of the undefeated teams. The pwerful win by Long Island secured for them gold medal. The full report is available here.
  
The full games stats, leader boards and team stats are now available from the Empire State Games Page.
  
Finally, we want to thank Phil and Lauren Davies of Newsphoto.com for many of the photographs from this week.
  

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