Mounties are only unbeaten team in the league after topping PHS

Wednesday April 25, 2012 | North Adams Transcript

WILLIAMSTOWN — Hank Barrett scored with 12 seconds left in the first quarter to give the Mount Greylock boys’ lacrosse team a lead that it would never relinquish on its way to a 17-7 victory over Pittsfield, on Tuesday.

“We had kind of a poor first quarter. We weren’t catching or throwing, we were dropping the ball, we weren’t getting to ground balls, and we were tied,” Barrett said. “I heard the countdown and knew that we didn’t want it to end tied and I wanted to give us a little momentum to carry into the second quarter.”

Mount Greylock would indeed carry that momentum into the second quarter as it struck for five goals in the first four minutes of the quarter. In that span, Kent Hanson snapped home two of his three goals, and Ethan Ryan recorded two of his game-high four goals. Noah Kelley had the fifth goal.

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