No. 1 Darien dominates No. 8 Glastonbury
DARIEN — One of the benefits of having a boys lacrosse program as deep as the one in Darien is the natural flow from season to season.
As coach Jeff Brameier tells it, players come in each spring knowing how things are done in the Blue Wave’s world. With no 2020 season to build on, however, that hasn’t been the case this spring.
“It’s been three weeks of more coaching and teaching than I’ve had to do early in other years,” Brameier said. “There is sort of a flow from one season to the next and we didn’t have that this year. We’ve got a lot of offense in, but it’s not really perfected yet.”
If that’s true, the rest of the state could be in serious trouble.
No. 1 Darien delivered a dominating performance as it dismantled No. 8 Glastonbury 19-5 on Friday afternoon at DHS.
Nine players scored for the Blue Wave (2-0) — a group led by Matthew Minicus (4 goals, 1 assist) and Brady Porkorny (3 goals) — while the defense kept the Guardians off the scoreboard until Josh Heany found the net with 1:40 remaining in the third quarter.
The Guardians then scored four goals after the Wave changed up its lineup in the fourth quarter.
For Glastonbury coach Scott Hinchey, it was a learning experience for a relatively young team.
“Darien’s a machine of a program and we’re happy to have the opportunity to play them this year,” Hinchey said. “I was a little disappointed at some of the little things we could control like communication and some of the toughness plays early in the game. We kind of started timid, which was something we were trying not to do today. So we were frustrated but I thought we hung in there.”
Darien was aggressive and physical on the defensive end, and used its speed for quick strikes on the