Berg’s Late Heroics Give Seals The Victory

Gary Groob

Gary Groob has been involved with Lacrosse for the majority of his life, whether playing, coaching, or covering the sport for the media. An avid fan, with a real drive about helping to "grow the game", Gary became part of podcasts about the game in 2010. Through the podcasts, Mr. Groob was given an opportunity to write about lacrosse, and the rest as they say, is history. Through many miles (flying and driving) Gary has made inroads with the National Lacrosse League, Major Series Lacrosse, Ontario Series Lacrosse, the Ontario Lacrosse Association, CUFLA, as well as the Arena Lacrosse League, covering the leagues, their teams, and players, working for, and in concert with all of them. In the year 2019, Mr. Groob was made the media person for the Arena Lacrosse League, voted onto the board of directors of the Brampton Excelsiors Lacrosse Club, as well as being made administrator of the Lacrosse page "Global Lacrosse" with a membership of 14,000+ members in over 90 Countries. Gary was also made an administrator of Lacrosse History Past Present and Future in 2022 with a membership of 19,000+. Gary also has been the media person for Ontario Series Lacrosse (Senior B) since 2023. Mr. Groob also covers the Green Gaels for their excursions to Prague at the Ales Hrebesky tournament since 2022. In 2024, when Major Series Lacrosse was in need of a media person, Gary stepped in as their interim media person. His tasks were running their social media, as well as their website until a full time person was found to fill the role. In 2025 Gary was voted onto the Board of Directors for Ontario Series Lacrosse. Mr. Groob hosts a weekly lacrosse interview show formerly on Spanglish Sports World, and ZingoTV channel 250, now on StreamPunkEnt.com, Youtube, as well as Spotify. Groob also hosts a lacrosse talk show and podcast for All Lacrosse All The Time seen live Sunday nights at 8pm (ET), and archived on the All Lacrosse All The Time YouTube page, as well as Spotify. Gary also wrote a weekly lacrosse editorial column for La Portada Canada News both in print and online for three years from 2021-2024. In 2025, Mr. Groob joined the ownership ranks, becoming a minority owner of StreamPunk Entertainment, ensuring Lacrosse will always have voice in media. Mr. Groob's other sports interests include Hockey, Football, Boxing, Wrestling, and Baseball, competing competitively in Boxing and Wrestling for many years.

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Toronto, Ontario – The San Diego Seals (4-5) visited the Toronto Rock (3-6) in NLL action Saturday night at the sold out Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.

These teams have been heading in different directions lately, with the Seals having trouble scoring, while the Rock have been on a three game winning streak. This Seals team is too talented to be down for long with Ryan Benesch, Wes Berg, Kyle Jackson, Ben McIntosh, and Rob Hellyer. The Rock are as healthy as they are going to get this year. With the return of Tom Schreiber, Challen Rogers, TD Ierlan, Brad Kri, Latrell Harris and Chris Corbeil. The Rock have again become one of the more difficult teams to play, making this a must see affair.

The goaltending match-up had Chris Origlieri in net for San Diego facing Nick Rose in net for the Rock.

San Diego played this game with purpose. Jumping out to a 2-0 lead, the Seals defense tightened, making it difficult for the Rock to find open shots. Dylan Watson and Wes Berg led the Seals with a pair of goals each leading 6-3 at the half.

The second half saw a lot of the same in the third quarter, with the Seals increasing their lead to four goals. However, in the fourth, the Rock offense woke up. Toronto took over the game stunning the Seals with a five goal run to take their first lead of the game. San Diego, to their credit, kept pressing. The Seals scored twice in the final two minutes to leave with a narrow 11-10 victory.

To The Game:

TheSeals got on the board first on the power-play when Dylan Watson converted a Ryan Benesch pass at 1:55, followed by Wes Berg shorthanded diving across the crease off an Eli Gobrecht pass at 12:32.

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Elijah Gash got the home fans fired up.
Off the faceoff, Gash scored unassisted off the faceoff on transition 0:11 seconds later.

After one quarter, San Diego 2 Toronto 1.

Second Quarter:

San Diego increased their lead with Wes Berg finding the top corner off a Ty Thompson pass at 3:22, followed by Dylan Watson with a low to low shot off a Ben McIntosh feed at 3:57.

Josh Dawick got one back on the power-play with a howitzer from the side of the net off a Tom Schreiber pass at 6:32, but San Diego stormed back when Trent DiCicco scored unassisted 0:09 seconds later.

Mitch de Snoo scored in transition off a Nick Rose long lead pass at 9:04, but Ben McIntosh answered from all alone in front off a Rob Hellyer pass at 13:04.

At the half, San Diego 6 Toronto 3.Third Quarter:

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Third Quarter:

Toronto got on the board to open the second half when Tom Schreiber fired a shot from the outside off a Josh Dawick pass at 3:11, but Ty Thompson answered with a bounced shot from in close off a Ben McIntosh pass 0:26 seconds later.

Wes Berg scored his third of the night from in front off a Rob Hellyer feed at 4:32, but the Rock answered on the power-play with a high to high laser from Corey Small off a Dan Craig pass at 7:19.

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Rob Hellyer gave the Seals a four goal lead with a bounced shot off a Ryan Benesch pass at 9:24.

After three quarters, San Diego 9 Toronto 5.

Fourth Quarter:

The Rock opened the fourth with a Chris Boushy quick stick off a Dan Craig pass at 0:24 seconds, followed by a howitzer from Corey Small from the outside off a Challen Rogers pass 0:25 seconds later.

Corey Small brought Toronto within one scoring his 400th career goal with a hard bounced shot from the top of the crease off a Tom Schreiber pass at 6:28, followed by Brian Cameron with a blast coming from behind the net 0:21 seconds later to tie the game.

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Toronto took their first lead of the night when Mitch de Snoo fired a shot that handcuffed Chris Origlieri off a Nick Rose pass at 7:59.

San Diego came back to tie the game with a blast from Rob Hellyer off a Ryan Benesch pass at 13:44, followed by Wes Berg with a blast from the outside with 48.5 seconds left for the game winner.

Final score, San Diego 11 Toronto 10.

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