By WILL SIDOROWICZ
Swoosh, Save, swoosh, save, save, save.
Ben Stambaugh stands in the goal for the Kingsmen.
The Crown Point attackers made runs all around him. Stambaugh responded. The second-year Goalie amassed 23 saves in that game, at an 85 percent save rate, an all-time high for saves and save percentage by a Kingsman goalie.
Stambaugh, who was a State Finalist tennis player for Penn, is one of the players who had only started lacrosse in high school.
“I needed something to keep me busy, and my friend Brady Bauer told me I should come to a preseason practice,” Stambaugh said of why he decided to give Lacrosse a try.
Bauer said that he spotted Stambaugh’s Lacrosse potential on the tennis courts.
“Well he is pretty good at tennis and there is a racket in tennis, a lacrosse stick is nearly a racket, so I thought he might be pretty good,” Bauer said.
Stambaugh worked hard to reach Varsity status. He won the most improved player in both tennis and lacrosse as a Sophomore. Showing how much he has grown due to his “tenacity for improvement,” in his first year as goalie he won most improved, and in his second
year he won Defensive MVP as the goalie.
This shows how much he has committed to a sport that is so new to him and how his innate reflexes have developed into a magic-like ability as a goalie.
