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# Offense erupts in second quarter to lift Bedford boys lacrosse past Windham (video)
- URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/offense-erupts-in-second-quarter-to-lift-bedford-boys-lacrosse-past-windham-video/
- Published: 2021-04-25T20:00:58.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-25T20:00:58.000Z
- Description: BEDFORD - The Bedford High School boys lacrosse started Saturday's game against Windham playing the way the Bulldogs wanted. But after Bedford took an early, the Jaguars came back to tie it up before the end of the first quarter, thanks in part to a couple of manup situations. In the second quarter
- Author: Joe Marchilena
- Tags: Division I, Bedford, boys lacrosse, Division II, slider, Windham, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44

BEDFORD - The Bedford High School boys lacrosse started Saturday's game against Windham playing the way the Bulldogs wanted.

But after Bedford took an early, the Jaguars came back to tie it up before the end of the first quarter, thanks in part to a couple of manup situations. In the second quarter, the Bulldogs got back to their game - and then some.

Bedford opened the second with a 6-0 run to break the tie and outscored Windham 9-1 in the quarter, on the way to a 16-8 win over the Jaguars.

"I think we started off well, like we needed to,: Bedford coach Matt Johansmeyer said. "We’ve been starting off slow and our challenge was to get through that first quarter. I was happy with the way we were able to do that. We put some numbers on the board."

After taking a 3-0 lead in the first three minutes of the game, Bedford allowed two manup goals and another off a turnover in its own end to see Windham tie the game. Derek Greer scored off a feed from Max Manniello just 1:17 into the second to give Bedford the lead for good; the pair had two goals apiece in the quarter and finished with three goals apiece.

Greer also had four assists for Bedford (5-1) while Evan Schmitt had two goals and Connor Arbusto, Derek Kulesza and William Enners had a goal and an assist apiece. Sean Toscano, Magnus Steele, Quinlan Kerr and Shea Lucontoni also scored a goal each and Matthew Desmond made seven saves.

Windham (0-5) got three goals and an assist from Alex Ryan while Nate LeVine had two goals and two assists. Drew Denton, Matthew O'Connor and Sawyer Hall also had a goal apiece while Stanley Jozokos made nine saves and Jackson Milano had three.

"We got three quarters out of the guys (Saturday)," Windham coach Joe Young said. "The second quarter was just non-existent. A couple of issues with our depth, so that doesn’t help the situation either."

Steele gave Bedford a 1-0 lead just 24 seconds into the game and Kerr and Manniello scored 44 seconds apart to make it 3-0 with 9:12 still to go in the opening quarter. But Steele was called for a trip moments later and LeVine scored 19 seconds into the manup to make it 3-1.

Greer was called for a slash with 5:03 left in the quarter, and again, Windham needed scored on the advantage, with Ryan cutting the lead to one. O'Connor tied it up when he scooped up a groundball and went in alone, beating Desmond to make it 3-3 with 2:30 to go.

"We had to get back to doing our stuff," Johansmeyer said. "We started to drift away from our systems and our principles. We had to regroup and stay out of the penalty box. Coming from the Salem games (last week), we had a ton of penalties. In the first quarter, we had a few and we had to button up a few things to get back to the disciplined lacrosse."

Manniello capped the 6-0 run by the Bulldogs in the scored with his second goal of the frame with 3:54 to go until halftime. Ryan answered for Windham to make it 9-4, but Bedford added three more goals in the final minute, including one by Arbusto right before the buzzer, to lead 12-4 at the break.

The second half started just like the first quarter for the Bulldogs, as they scored three goals in the first 2:15 to make it 15-4.

"Playing team lacrosse, it was six guys offensively and six guys defensively," Johansmeyer said. "We were all on the same page, communicating and rotating off each other and finally playing as a unit, as opposed to individuals."