Westley’s Hat-Trick, Leads Brooklin To Victory Over Lakers

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. 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.

Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Lakers Instagram page.

The Brooklin Lacrosse Club (1-2) visited the Peterborough Lakers (2-1) in Major Series Lacrosse semi-final playoff action at the Memorial Centre in Peterborough, Ontario Monday night.

The goaltending match-up had Steve Orleman in net for Brooklin facing Nick Rose in net for the Lakers.

Brooklin got themselves back in the series with an absolute defensive gem, holding rhe powerful Lakers to just four goals.

Up 3-0 early in the second, Peterborough came back like a tidal wave scoring four unanswered goals to take the lead. Unfazed, Brooklin got late goals from Sean Westley and Connor Kearnan to take a 5-4 lead into the third period.

Steve Orleman was superb all game for Brooklin making 48 saves on 52 shots, but especially in the third period stopping all 19 shots. Orleman was a huge reason that Brooklin came away with the 7-4 victory.

Sean Westley (3g,0a) led the way for Brooklin, as well as Connor Kearnan (1g,2a), and Ryan Barnable (1g,2a), while Thomas Hoggarth (2g,0a) and Joe Resetarits (0g,3a) were the offensive spark plugs for Peterborough.

To The Game:

Brooklin got on the board first when Eddie Renaud blasted a Michael White pass at 4:19, followed by Ryan Barnable finishing a Connor Kearnan pass on the power-play at 5:18.

After one period, Brooklin 2 Peterborough 0.

Second Period:

Sean Westley gave Brooklin a 3-0 lead with a nice finish of a Ryan Barnable pass at 0:44 seconds, but the Lakers would explode for four goals to take control.

Thomas Hoggarth got Peterborough on the board with an in close finish off a Joe Resetarits pass at 3:55, followed by Holden Cattoni firing a high to low laser off a Hoggarth feed at 4:22.

Braedon Saris tied the game on the power-play with a quick stick off a Holden Cattoni set up at 13:23, followed by Hoggarth with his second of the period off a Joe Resetarits pass 0:30 seconds later.

Brooklin kept fighting and were rewarded late. Sean Westley tied the game with a sidearm snipe to the corner off a Mike Byrne pass at 17:39, followed by Connor Kearnan with an outside laser off a Zach Miller pass at 18:09.

After two periods, Brooklin 5 Peterborough 4.

Third Period:

Sean Westley gave Brooklin a bit of breathing room with a blast off a Taggert Clark pass at 6:51, followed by Will MacLeod putting the game on ice off a Holden Garlent pass in transition at 18:41.

Final score, Brooklin 7 Peterborough 4.