Excelsiors Complete Effort Earns Their First Win Of The Year

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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.

The Brampton Excelsiors (1-8) visted the Oakville Rock (2-7) in Major Series Lacrosse action Monday night at the Toronto Rock Athletic Centre.

The goaltending match-up had Riley Hutchcraft in net for Brampton facing Troy Holowchuk in net for the Rock.

A complete team effort from the Brampton Excelsiors earned them their first win of the season.  They had come ever so close in past games, but for one reason or another they couldn’t finish.  This game saw the Excelsiors get stronger and more confident as the game wore on. 

Tied 2-2 after one period,  the Excelsiors put together a strong second period led by Mike Trilo (3g,0a) and Josh Medeiros (2g,0a) getting out to a 6-5 lead after two.

The third saw the Excelsiors take control.  Finlay Thompson (3g,2a) led the way with a pair of goals en route to a 10-6 Excelsiors victory.

For Oakville, Sam LeClair (2g,2a) led the way, but without Josh Dawick in the lineup, the Rock offense noticeably suffered.

To The Game:

Finlay Thompson opened the scoring off an Eric Ward pass at 3:51, but Carson Moyer answered off a Sam LeClair pass at 6:15.

Jack McAlpine gave Oakville their first lead of the night with a blast off a Gavin Thibeault pass at 9:19, but Mike Triolo answered with an outside blast off a Coltrane Tyson feed at 17:19.

After one period, Brampton 2 Oakville 2.

Second Period:

Sam LeClair gave the Rock the lead on the power-play off a Carson Moyer pass at 0:46 seconds, but three goals from Brampton broke the game open.

Josh Medeiros scored twice in transition followed by Mike Trilo with his second of the game off a James Whiteford feed at 11:21, but Oakville fought back with a pair of their own to tie the game.

Jack Travassos scored from in close off a Carson Moyer pass at 12:27, followed by Luke Dawick converting a Sam LeClair pass at 15:52.

Mike Trilo gave the Excelsiors the lead at the break with a great move from the top of the crease off a Tanner Thompson pass at 17:59.

After two periods, Brampton 6 Oakville 5.

Third Period:

Finlay Thompson opened the third period scoring with a low to low laser off a Coltrane Tyson pass at 0:52 seconds, followed by Nate Ruff on a turnover unassisted at 4:00.

Sam LeClair kept the Rock in the game with a blast off a Gavin Thibeault pass at 7:23.

Finlay Thompson added another power-play goal off a Tyson feed at 12:44, followed by Briley Maxwell finishing a Finlay Thompson pass at 14:05.

Final score, Brampton 10 Oakville 6.
Shots on goal favored Oakville 54-52.

The Three Stars:

1. Mike Trilo
2. Josh Medeiros
3. Riley Hutchcraft

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