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Colorado Mammoth forward Adam Jones had a quiet first three quarters on Saturday afternoon against the Vancouver Stealth as he was kept off the scoresheet. Then he heated up ... fast! The fifth-year forward scored his first of the game two-minutes-thirty-eight seconds into the fourth quarter to cut the Stealth lead to 9-5. Ten seconds later, he scored again. Seventeen seconds after that, Jones completed his hat trick. But he wasn't done...
Jones scored a fourth straight goal midway through the frame, then another at 9:08 to even the contest. After a Corey Small tally gave Vancouver the lead, 10-9, Callum Crawford scored on an assist from Eli McLaughlin - and, who else but Adam Jones - to tie the score at ten.
That's the way it stayed until Jones, with an extra attacker on the floor, scored his sixth goal of the quarter with 1.9 seconds remaining in regulation to complete his sock trick and propel the Mammoth to a thrilling 11-10 victory.
"I've never seen anything like that," said Mammoth coach Chris Gill. "I still really don't know what happened. We got lucky tonight. We weren't sharp, but luckily we had a hot stick in (Jones). When it came down to crunch-time, the big boy stepped up!"
Gill's not the only one who's never seen this before. Jones' three goals in a 27-second span is unprecedented in NLL history (for as long as the league can trace), and six goals in the quarter - including the buzzer-beater - has never happened before in the league's three decades of existence. But Jones' long-time teammate, Dan Coates, who played college lacrosse with the game's First Star, is never shocked by his abilities.
"What I've seen him do, it doesn't surprise me," said the captain of Jones' performance in Saturday's Pepsi Center matinee. "At any given moment in time, he comes up clutch. He's the man!"
For Jones, it was his second-straight home game with six goals. For Coates, his contribution was a second-quarter fight with Vancouver's Jeff Moleski that ignited the team when it was done by five. For Alex Buque, it was a solid performance in relief of Dillon Ward.
The Mammoth starting netminder was pulled less than two minutes into the third quarter as the Stealth scored two quick ones in the period to increase its lead to six. Then Buque slammed the door, allowing just two goals in more than 28 minutes of action.
"He's a beast!" said Jones of Buque. "He always steps in like that, making great saves..."
But the day belonged to Jones, who propelled his team to a 7-2 record and a two-game lead in the West Division at the season's midpoint as the Mammoth won the front-end of a Downtown Denver Doubleheader. (The Colorado Avalanche is hosting the Detroit Red Wings in the nightcap at Coors Field.)
"It's a first," said Jones of his fourth-quarter performance. "It was a surreal feeling."
Colorado will host the East Division-leading New England Black Wolves (4-2) next Saturday, Mar. 5 at 7pm MT on HealthONE Field at Pepsi Center in a battle of first-place teams.
Read more http://www.oursportscentral.com/ser...tement-with-17-6-win-over-rochester/n-5105255
Jones scored a fourth straight goal midway through the frame, then another at 9:08 to even the contest. After a Corey Small tally gave Vancouver the lead, 10-9, Callum Crawford scored on an assist from Eli McLaughlin - and, who else but Adam Jones - to tie the score at ten.
That's the way it stayed until Jones, with an extra attacker on the floor, scored his sixth goal of the quarter with 1.9 seconds remaining in regulation to complete his sock trick and propel the Mammoth to a thrilling 11-10 victory.
"I've never seen anything like that," said Mammoth coach Chris Gill. "I still really don't know what happened. We got lucky tonight. We weren't sharp, but luckily we had a hot stick in (Jones). When it came down to crunch-time, the big boy stepped up!"
Gill's not the only one who's never seen this before. Jones' three goals in a 27-second span is unprecedented in NLL history (for as long as the league can trace), and six goals in the quarter - including the buzzer-beater - has never happened before in the league's three decades of existence. But Jones' long-time teammate, Dan Coates, who played college lacrosse with the game's First Star, is never shocked by his abilities.
"What I've seen him do, it doesn't surprise me," said the captain of Jones' performance in Saturday's Pepsi Center matinee. "At any given moment in time, he comes up clutch. He's the man!"
For Jones, it was his second-straight home game with six goals. For Coates, his contribution was a second-quarter fight with Vancouver's Jeff Moleski that ignited the team when it was done by five. For Alex Buque, it was a solid performance in relief of Dillon Ward.
The Mammoth starting netminder was pulled less than two minutes into the third quarter as the Stealth scored two quick ones in the period to increase its lead to six. Then Buque slammed the door, allowing just two goals in more than 28 minutes of action.
"He's a beast!" said Jones of Buque. "He always steps in like that, making great saves..."
But the day belonged to Jones, who propelled his team to a 7-2 record and a two-game lead in the West Division at the season's midpoint as the Mammoth won the front-end of a Downtown Denver Doubleheader. (The Colorado Avalanche is hosting the Detroit Red Wings in the nightcap at Coors Field.)
"It's a first," said Jones of his fourth-quarter performance. "It was a surreal feeling."
Colorado will host the East Division-leading New England Black Wolves (4-2) next Saturday, Mar. 5 at 7pm MT on HealthONE Field at Pepsi Center in a battle of first-place teams.
Read more http://www.oursportscentral.com/ser...tement-with-17-6-win-over-rochester/n-5105255
