PORTLAND – Lewiston sniper Jon Fournier’s first shot of the game skittered wide of the net. It was his only shot of the first half, and came with less than 20 seconds to play.
The rest of the Blue Devils’ front line wasn’t having much luck either, getting no goals on seven shots through 24 minutes of play and just one — on a stellar behind-the-back shot from Travis Lebrun — all game.
Scarborough, meanwhile, scored seven times, putting Lewiston into a hole out of which it couldn’t climb.
Bryan Macphie scored five goals and Andy Clark added four more to lead the Red Storm to their first Class A boys’ lacrosse title with a 14-2 win over the Blue Devils.
“(Scarborough) is a very strong team on both sides of the ball,” said Fournier. “They had a guy shutting me out, not even looking where the ball was, just following me around. (Cody Powers) is a great midfielder. It was hard to do anything against him.
Powers drew praise across the board, too, keying a defensive effort that held Lewiston to its lowest goal output of the season.
“(Powers) just dominated the middle,” said Lewiston coach Tom Fournier. “They set up their rides to kind of push everyone to the middle right to him and he had a field day with us.”
Scarborough matched Lewiston speed for speed up and down the field, taking away scoring opportunities no matter from which direction they came.
“We locked off their best attackman and then we kind of played a zone behind him,” said Powers of his assignment to cover Jon Fournier all night. “We always had a pole on (Lewiston midfielder Josh Rivet) because he’s a good player, too. We just tried to take out their best players.”
The Red Storm’s offense, meanwhile, punished a seemingly slower Lewiston defense with quick cuts and superb ball control, keeping the Blue Devils on the defensive for most of the evening.
“We’ve had trouble against zone defense all year,” said Scarborough attack Eric Payne. “Luckily we worked hard on working against a zone because we knew they’d probably throw it at us.”
Lewiston took a while after the game to digest the harsh ending to the most successful season in the program’s short history. The pain, though, will be short-lived.
“We’re all proud that we made it this far,” said Jon Fournier, “but obviously we wanted to go further. This is good enough, though, I think.”
“We’re disappointed but it’s not going to last long,” said Tom Fournier. “This feeling of disappointment is going to last about 10 more seconds.”
The Red Storm started quickly in the first, getting two goals on the board in the first 3:18. With 4:35 to play in the opening frame, the lead was 4-0.
“Getting a lead early really took anything that the other fans had right out of it,” said Scarborough coach Tobey Farrington. “It pumped our fans up and you could see it on our bench, too.”
Lewiston notched its lone goal of the first half with just 14 seconds to play in the first when Jonathan Roy fired home a perfect feed from Fournier on a man-up situation, giving the Blue Devils a momentary shot in the arm.
But the Red Storm made sure they retained the momentum with three more in the third, one from Andy Clark and two from Macphie.
Scarborough played stall-ball in the second half as they maintained possession for most of the third quarter. The Red Storm tacked on a goal at the 4:51 mark of the third on a miscue by sophomore netminder Nate Rivet, and the wheels fell off from there as Scarborough piled up six more goals in the second half to complete the rout.
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