> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Pinkerton boys lacrosse ends Bishop Guertin's D1 title streak, wins first championship since 2006 - URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/pinkerton-boys-lacrosse-ends-bishop-guertins-d1-title-streak-wins-first-championship-since-2006/ - Published: 2015-06-16T15:29:28.000Z - Updated: 2015-06-16T15:29:28.000Z - Description: EXETER - Brian O'Reilly has coached almost two dozen championship teams in football and boys lacrosse at Pinkerton Academy. - Author: Joe Marchilena - Tags: Division I, Spring Sports, Bishop Guertin, boys lacrosse, championship, Pinkerton, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44 EXETER - Brian O'Reilly has coached almost two dozen championship teams in football and boys lacrosse at Pinkerton Academy. Not many of them have been like this year's boys lacrosse champion. After finishing third in Division I during the regular season, the No. 3 Astros took out the two teams ahead of them, following up a semifinal win over No. 2 Bedford with a 9-7 win over No. 1 Bishop Guertin on Saturday in the final at Bill Ball Stadium in Exeter. ![Pinkerton celebrates after beating Bishop Guertin in the Division I championship game Saturday.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bc/58/bc5866d0-9fd9-4113-b959-670d6f16471d/content/images/www-nh-highschoolsports-com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jmpabglax061315-p-1.jpg) Pinkerton celebrates after beating Bishop Guertin in the Division I championship game Saturday. The win gives Pinkerton its first title since 2006, and its 10th overall, while ending the Cardinals' run of five consecutive titles. "I told them, of all the championships we've won in lacrosse, this team has come the furthest," O'Reilly said. "When I look at where they were at the beginning of the year, there was no way. There were too many freshmen and sophomores. There's only four seniors who played all the time. This might be the best of championships in terms of that nobody saw this coming." Todd Billeter scored three goals in the third quarter, including one to give Pinkerton its first lead, and Brett Dattilo had two goals and two assists while Jack Hanaway also had two goals. Pinkerton (18-3) did it with defense, holding Bedford to almost nine goals below its season average in the semifinals, and then keeping Bishop Guertin to more than 10 goals below its season average in the championship. The Cardinals had scored 17 against the Astros in the regular season and had put up 38 goals in their first two playoff games. "It was about stopping their midfielders," O'Reilly said. "We felt very comfortable with our attack-defensive matchups. We felt Cam Richard on (Alex) Astarita is a wash. We felt that Ryan Burke on (Nick) Prunier is a wash. They have two exceptional attackmen but those two kids are the strength of our team. Where we looked on paper and said 'whoa' was the midfield. Those kids just screamed to the cage and ripped shots and we were not playing very good midfield defense for most of the year." Despite that effort, Bishop Guertin got all but one of its goals from midfielders. Charlie O'Brien had three goals, Tim Hinrichs added two and Gage Sevigny had a goal and an assist, but the lone goal from an attackman was the first goal of the game from Astarita. "They were a different team," Bishop Gueritn coach Chris Cameron said. "It was defensively. Us holding them to nine goals wasn't an issue. Defensively, we were fine. "It was our offense that let us down. They were sliding really early and we weren't moving it fast enough to make them pay. They recovered and they got their act together, because they used to not recover well. They just played a really good team defense." ![Pinkerton's Cam Richard defends Bishop Guertin's Alex Astarita.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bc/58/bc5866d0-9fd9-4113-b959-670d6f16471d/content/images/www-nh-highschoolsports-com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jmpabglax061315-p35b33-1.jpg) Pinkerton's Cam Richard defends Bishop Guertin's Alex Astarita. Goalie Nick Richard was a big part of that as well, as he bounced back from two bad regular season games against Bedford and Bishop Guertin to play well in the playoffs. "We don't win this championship if not for Nick Richard," O'Reilly said. "Nick had a bad game earlier in the year against Bedford and had a bad game earlier in the year against BG. He took care of both those situations in the playoffs." The Cardinals got out to a 2-0 lead in the first quarter, but couldn’t get much going in the second, and Pinkerton came back to tie the game before halftime. The game was delayed with 4:36 left in the second quarter when the stadium lights went out. After some discussion among coaches and venue officials, the teams agreed to play the rest of the in what remained of the sunlight while waiting for the lights to come back on, which they did right before halftime. Hinrichs gave the Cardinals a 3-2 lead with a goal 1:31 into the third quarter. But that would be Bishop Guertin's last lead, as Billeter scored twice in seven seconds to put Pinkerton up 4-3 with 4:57 left in the third. The game was tied again, this time at 5, going into the third, but the Astros scored twice in the first 3:36, to go up 7-5\. Bishop Guertin cut the lead to one on a goal by Gage Sevigny, but Dattilo scored 16 seconds later to make it 8-6. Another goal by Dattilo put Pinkerton up three goals with 4:44 left, and despite controlling possession for a large portion of that time, the Cardinals didn't score again until 44 seconds remained. When Dattilo won the ensuing faceoff, the Astros had locked up the championship. "We didn't have a chance to blow it up to four or five," Cameron said. "We've had their number for years and years, and they had doubt, especially with what we did to them in the first game, but they started believing and they were the better team. They outplayed us (Saturday). I've got to give them credit."