Pondo scores twice in final minutes to edge Huskies

Is One Was Too Good For These Two Teams To Not Play Each Other

In their rst meeting since 2012, and in what was the Colorado High School Activities Association’s game of the week, the Douglas County and Ponderosa boys lacrosse teams went at it for 48 minutes May 1 at Douglas County School District ese two programs may compete in di erent classi cations and in di erent leagues, but their rst tilt in over a decade sure had the look and feel of a peppery rivalry — it was physical, it was back and forth, and it had a big-brother-small-brother kind of feel to it, the 5A Huskies welcoming their 4A friends from

Douglas County took the lead with more than half the fourth quarter gone, but the Mustangs responded with two goals in the nal three and

“Any time we play anyone on the east side of Douglas County, it’s a rivalry game,” Ponderosa coach Andrew Trietley said. “We view it as a rivalry game because the towns are so close to each other and the social circles of the kids all intertwine. So this was a good win.” e Huskies forced a turnover with 21 seconds left, but Connor Jenkins’ last-second shot rolled just past Ponderosa’s cage.

Rivalry or not, it was wildly entertaining.

Moments after Ponderosa’s Camden Stanley scored in tra c to even the score at 4 apiece, Nolan Case responded with a goal of his own to put the Huskies on top 5-4 with 5 minutes, 16 seconds remaining.

With 3:31 left and a man down for Douglas County, Stanley leveled the score at 5-all when he corralled a pass from Garrett Katrana in the X and slung it into the cords.

Less than a minute later, and with Ponderosa in possession again, Caden D’Lallo passed the ball forward to Ryder Richardson, who turned and stuck it in the corner of the net for a 6-5 Mustangs lead.