Iroquois Nationals Lose in Overtime to Canada, 15 – 14

Metro Centre, Halifax, N.S., 20 May 2007 – The second-ever World Indoor Lacrosse gold-medal game featured the same two teams as the first championship in 2003, as the Iroquois Nationals squared off against Team Canada.Both sides played things close to the vest in the first quarter, which ended 4 – 2 Canada, as Delby Powless and Cody Jamieson scored for the Iroquois.

Brett Bucktooth scored 3 times in the second quarter, including a spectacular one-handed wraparound, Dean Hill added a power-play marker, and the Nationals scored the final 3 of the half. The Nationals’ defense tied the score at 7 – 7, when Travis Hill controlled the face-off, then fed Sid Smith, whose underhand eluded Canada goalie Anthony Cosmo. After the Iroquois won the ensuing draw and called a timeout with 27 seconds remaining in the half, they came out with six attackers, and took an 8 – 7 lead into the dressing-room on a goal by Captain Cory Bomberry; the ball ended up in the Team Canada net at the horn, and after consulting with the goal judge, referee Mike “Ace” Ventura confirmed that it would count.

The teams traded the lead in the third period, as Bucktooth scored his fourth of the contest and Delby Powless restored the Iroquois lead at 10 – 9 with just 50 seconds left in the quarter.

Canada scored 3 in a row to take a two-goal lead early in the fourth, but the Nationals took the lead back on goals from Powless, Andy Secore and Roger Vyse. After Canada got 2 power-play goals on a five-on-three, then five-on-four, advantage, the Iroquois controlled yet another face-off, and Dean Hill tied the game at 14 with less than a minute remaining in regulation, and forced overtime. Jeff Zywicki got on the end of a three-way passing play to give Canada the 15 – 14 win.

The Nationals got 4 goals from Brett Bucktooth (Onondaga), 3 from Delby Powless (Six Nations), and 2 from Dean Hill (Six Nations). Cody Jamieson (Six Nations), Sid Smith (Six Nations), Captain Cory Bomberry (Six Nations), Andy Secore (Six Nations) and Roger Vyse.

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Ted Montour
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