Keystone State Games: Lehigh Valley reaches finals for 2nd straight year, takes silver in Senior boys’ division

Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 8/2/10

The Lehigh Valley Senior boys’ team took home the silver medal at last weekend’s Keystone State Games at Penn State University.

The team finished first in the Commonwealth bracket, defeating all five of its

opponents in pool play (Bucks, Chester, Capital, Great Lakes, and Metro).

In the medal round, Lehigh Valley rallied from three goals down to defeat Keystone bracket runner-up Delaware County, 9-8, on a late goal by Dan Kinek (Emmaus). The tally came off a perfect pass from Kurt Kaunas (Parkland).

In the championship game, the team again started slowly and was down, 4-1, early in the secondhalf against Keystone bracket winner Blue Mountain (Central PA). LV closed the gap to 5-4 and had several chances to tie the score but Blue Mountain pulled away for a 8-4 win.

Members of this year’s silver medal-winning team included:

Andrew Iacocca, Blair Academy
Tyler Albanese, Central Catholic
Robert Hayman, Central Catholic
Adam Wydra, Central Catholic
Steve Mussoline, Central Catholic
Kevin Gulyas, Central Catholic
Matt Savage, Central Catholic
Brian Topper, Central Catholic
Ryan Weiss, Easton
Danny Kinek, Emmaus
Sunny Yu, Emmaus
Travis Schmidt, Emmaus
Cole Campbell, Emmaus
Marc Feldman, Emmaus
John McGeary, Emmaus
Joe Magargal, Emmaus
Justin Brown, Nazareth
Christopher Laudenbach, Nazareth
Richard Tonnies, Nazareth
Kurtis Kaunas, Parkland
Matt Bashore, Parkland
Dave Cecchini, Parkland
Steven Arhontoulis, Southern Lehigh

Coaches included Jef Hewlings (Emmaus), Michael Schwartz (Emmaus), and Chris Moore (Parkland).