Westley’s Hat-Trick Leads Brooklin To 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. 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.

photo courtesy of the Owen Sound North Stars Instagram page.

The Owen Sound North Stars (6-9) traveled east to face the Brooklin Lacrosse Club (10-6) in Major Series Lacrosse action at the Iroquois Park Sports Centre.

The goaltending match-up had Kaleb Martin in net for the North Stars facing Steve Orleman in net for Brooklin.

A rough start and rough finish took an otherwise close game, and made it a big deficit for the North Stars to overcome. While the North Stars showed a lot of fight, Brooklin seemingly had an answer every time Owen Sound found some momentum. Led by Sean Westley (3g,2a), and Ryan Barnable (2g,0a), Brooklin wins 10-5.

To The Game:

After half of a period of end to end action, Brooklin finally exploded for three goals. Taggart Clark converted a Will MacLeod pass at 8:47, followed by Ryan Barnable on a great individual effort in transition unassisted at 12:17. Sean Westley then added a low to low snipe off a Ben MacDonnell feed at 16:05.

Tanner Buck finally got Owen Sound on the board with a quick stick off an Isiah Moran-Weekes cross crease pass at 18:54.

After one period, Brooklin 3 Owen Sound 1.

Second Period:

Jackson Webster opened the second period scoring for the North Stars bringing this to a one goal game off a Xander Derkatz pass at 1:59, but Ryan Barnable replied with his second of the game off a Chris Boushy pass at 10:08.

Sean Westley increased the Brooklin lead with a blast off a Tanner Cook feed at 10:53, but Mitch Wilde brought the North Stars closer with a sidearm snipe off a Braydon Mayea feed at 16:23.

After two periods, Brooklin 5 Owen Sound 3.

Third Period:

Sean Westley increased the Brooklin lead with a low to low laser off a Nicholas Volkov pass at 3:30, but Braydon Mayea kept Owen Sound close with a sidearm snipe to the corner off a Jackson Webster pass at 5:45.
Tanner Cook scored next for Brooklin to keep breathing room at 7:45, but Mayea then brought the North Stars within two again with a low to low shot off a Xander Derkatz pass at 14:07.

Nate Woods, Jacob Hickey, & Brady Kearnan scored back to back to back in the span of 1:27 to seal the deal.

Final score, Brooklin 10 Owen Sound 5.
Shots on goal favored Brooklin 60-52.