Senior day in Peter Barton lacrosse stadium the Denver pioneers are hosting St. Johns for a chance to go 2-1 in the big east conference and build off their last win against Villanova.
With the stadium filled to the brim with friends, families’, diehard fans, and everything in between ready to watch the game.
Before the game was to kick off the pioneers had a ceremony for all of the seniors and grad students to celebrate all of there hard work and dedication to the game.
“I’m so happy to see all of the boys that started their first day of college lacrosse together now to see them coming down to one of their last days as teammates together.” Said Tina Stroman a mom of a senior goalie.
Because the emotions were high in the stands with happiness for seeing their sons end a part of their lives, they still knew business was not yet done with a minimum of 3 weeks left in the season.
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The pioneer has had a rocky start to the season losing some big games versus duke, UNC and yale going into big east play nationally ranked at 20th.
With the emotions shifting gears from happiness and loving it was getting intense and quite in the stands and on the field because both teams knew what were on the line here.
“We needed this win as a statement game that the first half of the season was not the real pioneers and that were coming for that national championship” says Teddy Sullivan a midfielder on the pioneers”
Right from the start it was a dominant performance from the pioneers keeping the foot on the gas all of the first half ending at 9-1 going to the second half.
“we’re not done yet” says Teddy Sullivan repeatedly as the team walks out of the locker room to start the second half.
As the second half begins the crowd and players on the far side got loud and intense. Feeling there was a spark of life to the St. Johns team hoping to claw there way out of this deficit.
They gave it all in the third quarter scoring three goals in a quarter put the pioneers on their toes.
“The coaches will make the adjustments to dominate in the 4th “says Joedi Stillstrop a father of a Denver lacrosse player.
The pioneers ended just as hot as the started score 4 in the 4th quarter and allowing 0 goals.
With the final seconds counting downs the families of the seniors and rest of the family and fans cheering on the Pios for a dominant win over the hard-fought St. Johns team.
The game ended 18-4 the pioneers did exactly what they set out to by getting a dominant win to start their win streak.
The pioneers dominated in every category ground balls, shots, forced turnover, and the main one goals.
This win gives the Denver pioneer seniors a good memory of their senior day and gets them into the big east tournament. It also gets them ready to continue this steak and mentality for their next game away against providence next week.
MFJS Reporter Spring 2022 
Great article! I felt like I was actually at the game. I felt like the quotes and descriptive language made the article read like it was a live game. I liked the quote about the coaches decision through the game.
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