Rock Ride A Four Goal Run To Victory

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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. Gary was voted onto the board of directors as the social media director for Ontario Series Lacrosse (OSL) in November of 2025. In 2026 Mr. Groob was nominated for the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame, made a voting member of the NLL media, was put as a voting member in the Ales Hrebesky Tournament awards, and was nominated for the Tom Borelli Award as media person of the year for the NLL. 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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The Oakville Rock (4-7) traveled north to face the Brampton Excelsiors (1-10) in Major Series Lacrosse action Thursday night at the Memorial Arena in Brampton, Ontario.

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

In a rematch from last week, the Brampton Excelsiors and the Oakville Rock played an exciting end to end game for most of the night.  Brampton got out to a 2-0 lead into the second period when the Rock’s offense woke up.  For the next 40 minutes, Oakville outscored the Excelsiors 10-5 to come away with the 10-7 victory.

Oakville was led by Zane Dalpe (3g,1a), Josh Dawick (2g,1a), Chris Weier (3g,0a), and Luke Robinson (2g,0a).  For Brampton, Mike Triolo (2g,0a) led the offense with a pair of markers, with James Whiteford (1g,2a), Bowie Horsman (1g,1a), and Finlay Thomson (1g,1a) chipping in.

To The Game:

After over half a period of scoreless end to end action, the Excelsiors opened the scoring with James Whiteford picking the corner off a Dante Bowen pass at 11:48.  They soon followed it up with Mike Triolo shooting through the five-hole off a Finlay Thomson feed 0:40 seconds later.

After one period, Brampton 2 Oakville 0.

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Second Period:

The Rock got back into the game when Zane Dalpe scored on the power-play off a Josh Dawick pass at 10:25, followed by Dawick himself with a blast off a Jack McAlpine pass 0:12 seconds later.

Seth Van Schepen gave Brampton the lead once again in transition scoring off a Liam Patten lead pass shorthanded at 11:32, but Dawick’s second of the night off a Kaden Brennan pass at 12:56 tied the game once more.

Chris Weier gave Oakville their first lead of the night converting a Ty English pass at 13:08, but Finlay Thomson would tie the game with a low to low howitzer off a James Whiteford feed just 0:16 seconds later.

Rory Graham put the Excelsiors in the lead at 13:51 off a Ben Baker pass, but Luke Robinson would answer for Oakville with a sidearm snipe off a Zane Dalpe pass at 15:09 in this see-saw affair.

After two periods, Brampton 5 Oakville 5.

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Third Period:

Zane Dalpe opened the third period scoring setting the pace with a blast off a Phil Mazzuca pass at 0:21 seconds, but Mike Triolo answered with a beauty from in close off a Matt Pereira pass at 6:32.

The Rock soon got rolling putting a four goal run together. 

Zane Dalpe scored his third of the night off a Luke Dawick pass at 8:58, followed by Chris Weier finishing a Mike McCannell pass low to the stickside of Hutchcraft at 10:08.

Weier added another to the same spot again off a McCannell feed at 14:55, followed by Luke Robinson converting a Jack McAlpine pass at 16:01.

Bowie Horsman tried to get Brampton back in the game with a laser to the corner off a Lucas Dudemaine pass at 16:23, but it was too little too late.

Final score, Oakville 10 Brampton 7.

The Three Stars:

1. Zane Dalpe
2. Chris Weier
3. Mike Triolo

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