After the game Coach Terry Crowley, fresh off his team’s dominant performance, had one thing to say: “It’s not the first game that’s important, it’s the second game.” So true . . . as both teams remember from last season. Two things about last night. STA is good, REALLY good . . . And Barron Collier just had one of those days.  On Friday the 13th. A delay to the start of the game was caused by the Barron Collier bus breaking down on the way over (forgot to ask where but given the travel route Alligator Alley is a pretty good guess . . . ) and frankly that was probably the highlight of the trip, given how well STA played and how poorly BC did. Head-scratching clears . . . poor passing . . . ground balls were treated as grenades . . . shots off target . . . okay, I’ll stop there. Oh, and add one more.  Forgetting to defend anyone on STA who’s first name started with an A-L-E . . . Add in 10 second half penalties, including that rare 6 on 3 . . . You get the picture. Assuming both teams go forward and form holds it looks like the rematch will come Saturday, April 25th at 7:00pm, also on the Brian Piccolo Field in Ft. Lauderdale. Both teams look like they should have little trouble this year with their first two rounds as the region is a little weaker this year.  Gulf Coast is struggling out west and the Miami schools are still looking for victories over their stronger competition. Perhaps Barron Collier will travel Friday the 24th and stay the night . . .   STA started the scoring at 10:32 as Louie Yovino faked a shot on the top left wing and when the defender committed he dodged past down the left alley and hit the low right corner to make it 1-0.  After a number of possession changes the lead went to 2-0 as Alec Cumella curled out from behind the right side to about 5 yards out on the wing and hit the low, far corner with the left hand at 4:17.  At 2:42 BC cut the lead in half as Jake Telitz ran down the right wing, split two defenders and hit the upper right corner with the right hand.  But STA responded twice to stretch to 4-1.  At 1:17 JP Crowley took a right wing feed from Alex Tumminello on the left side and his left-hand found hip-high on the left side and at :27 he face dodged from the right wing and placed it in the low left corner.  BC got one back with 14 seconds left as Sean Nash took Scott Etchechury’s feed off a two-man pattern and Nash finished from the middle to end the quarter at 4-2. STA broke open the game in the second quarter, with a 4-0 run to make it 8-2 at half. At 7:58 Tumminello took JP Crowley’s behind the net feed up top and fired into the low left corner and that was followed at 5:49 when Tumminello took advantage of an EMO as he took Kevin Crowley’s left top wing feed down the line and hit the same low left corner.  Then Jimmie Harrington took Tumminello’s crease feed from the left wing and finished easily at :43 and BC’s defense then made an uncharacteristic error by leaving Cumella all alone in front on a re-start and Gino Casolaro found him from left GLE with 30 seconds left and the half ended. BC came out better in the third and were rewarded in a strange fashion as Pat Mahoney took a 50-yard parabolic pass from Michael Nathan (a pass like this was last seen on this field in the 80’s and the connection was John Congemi to Michael Irvin . . . how’s that one STA fans?) and finished in front of a startled STA goalie Michael Adler at 8:37.  Michael (Nathan, not Adler or Irvin . . . yeesh, alliteration in a lax article), I need to ask, was that for Pat or did you just overthrow the other player in front of you? You don’t have to answer honestly . . . But turnovers kept BC from making this a game and STA answered at 6:51 as Tumminello took Yovino’s right wing feed near the cage and he went behind the back, with the ball trickling in after a few bounces.  BC got that one back at 5:37 as Telitz took Drew Goodrich’s pass and fired a perfect bullet to the off-hip of Adler for 9-4.  But that was the last goal for BC until the final minute as STA ran off seven straight goals over the next 16 minutes to put the game on ice. At 3:45 it was Cumella dodging from the right towards the middle, followed by Harrington taking Kevin Crowley’s top feed in the middle and Kevin Crowley finishing an EMO as he took Cumella’s right GLE feed while cutting down the middle and it was 12-4 after three. In the fourth it was Tumminello at 10:37 as he beat the double team from behind the net, Cumella at 10:17 finishing a Tumminello left wing feed on the right wing and at 8:46 Casolaro finishing Yovino’s top left feed on the left crease.  Then with 7 minutes left BC ended up defending 6 on 3 and the only criticism I have of STA all game was that the first team man-up unit was sent out to work it and at 6:42 JP Crowley finished the Tumminello feed to end the STA scoring.  That was not necessary. BC finished the game with :40 on the clock as Beckett Haglund took a Connor McGraw feed from the right all alone in front on the EMO and the game ended at 16-5. Making the bus ride back across Alligator Alley a long one . . . hopefully the trip was less eventful the second time. Sometimes you just can’t fight Friday the 13th . . .   STA is back in action on Monday as they host district foe South Plantation while BC makes another Alley road trip Wednesday, going to play Gulliver Prep.   Team Statistics   Faceoffs:  STA 13 – BC 9 (a number of no faceoff situations due to penalties) Shots:  STA 41 – BC 20 Shots on Goal:  STA 27 – BC 10 Turnovers:  BC 21 – STA 13 Penalties:  BC 12 – STA 4   Individual Statistics   STA Alex Tumminello  4G/4A Alec Cumella  4G/1A JP Crowley  3G/1A Louie Yovino and Kevin Crowley  1G/2A each Jimmie Harrington  2G Gino Casolaro  1G/1A   BC Jake Telitz  2G Sean Nash, Pat Mahoney and Beckett Haglund  1G each Scott Etchechury, Michael Nathan, Drew Goodrich and Connor McGraw  1A each   Michael Adler had 5 saves for STA and Zach Woods had 10 for BC while Connor Nix had one late in the game for BC   Thanks to Coach Crowley and Coach Carter for talking to me before and after the game.