Roughnecks win NLL Championship for first time in a decade
Posted May 25, 2019 11:22 pm.
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CALGARY – Rhys Duch’s second goal of the game came in overtime as the Calgary Roughnecks captured their third National Lacrosse League championship with a 14-13 victory over the Buffalo Bandits on
Saturday night to sweep the best-of-three final.
Duch fired a shot past Buffalo goaltender Matt Vinc 1:12 into extra time to send the Scotiabank Saddledome crowd of 17,038 into a frenzy.
Dane Dobbie had a huge game for the Roughnecks with four goals and three assists. He was also named the series MVP as Calgary wins its first NLL title since 2009.
Dobbie’s spectacular breakaway goal with 55 seconds left in the fourth quarter gave the home side a 13-12 lead, only to see Corey Small tie it 27 seconds later.
Buffalo (14-4) was the NLL’s best team in the regular season, but the East representative could not contain Calgary (10-8), who came out of the third spot in the West.
After road victories over the San Diego Seals (12-11) and the Colorado Mammoth (8-4) to reach the final, the Roughnecks kept the momentum going with a 10-7 victory in Game 1 of the final last Saturday at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y.
