Laxers play at Gilman School April 1
Gabe Best had 3 goals and 3 assists in the game. DAVE FREDERICK PHOTOS
Dave Frederick
April 1, 2021
The steeple bell on the campus chapel at Episcopal Academy rang four times, a harbinger of a spring squall, but the bell also tolled for Cape lacrosse. Minutes into the 4 p.m. game, the Churchmen of the tough Philadelphia Inter-Academic League were leading 4-0.
But the Vikings got up off the slippery deck as mariners must do and trailed 5-4 at the quarter before leading 7-6 at halftime on a pass from Mikey Frederick to Joe Coveleski.
Midway through the third period with the Vikings ahead 8-6, Jaden Davis knocked a Churchman into the middle of his sophomore year of college and went to the box for a two-minute, non-releasable penalty. During that kill-off, more laundry was thrown into the Vikings’ hamper, and by the time the third period ended, the score went sheepshank redemption, knotted at 9.