KENNEBUNK

The Kennebunk boys lacrosse team entered Monday night’s boys high school lacrosse game against Brunswick as the clear underdog. The visiting Dragons came in as the defending Class A state champions and hadn’t lost a game since the 2014 state finals.

The Rams didn’t care what the matchup looked like on paper.

Kennebunk jumped out to a 10-2 halftime lead and then withstood an early second-half rally from Brunswick as the Rams pulled away for an impressive 16-6 win.

“Well, we finally played 48 minutes of a game. We saw spurts of it in the past few games, but we just finally played a full game,” said Kennebunk coach Dan Seavey. “(Brunswick) is a good team, a great team, a lot of offensive threats, good defense and they are obviously well coached.”

Spencer Thibodeau led the Rams with four goals and Brendan Whitten scored twice and dished out five assists.

According to Thibodeau, the Rams put in some extra time on the practice field before Monday’s clash.

“We had a good week of training last week and we practiced again on Saturday morning to get reps in before and we just had a good team win today,” said Thibodeau.

That extra preparation paid dividends in the first half as the Rams started the game on fire.

Brunswick struck first when Jameson Cyr scored less than a minute into the game, but Kennebunk scored three straight – with goals from Bo Beveridge, Thibodeau and Pat Gassman — to take a 3-1 lead with eight minutes left in the first.

The Dragons answered with a goal from Aiden Glover, but Kennebunk picked up two straight scores from Donovan Connor to take a 5-2 lead into the second period.

The second period would be all Kennebunk as the Rams received goals from Gassman, Thibodeau and Brenden Whitten to push the lead to 8-2 with 3:54 remaining in the half.

While the Rams could have slowed the game down and went into halftime with a six-goal lead, Seavey decided to let his attackers loose after a timeout with 51 seconds left in the second.

It paid off as Whitten scored with 15 seconds left and Connor beat the Brunswick goalie with just eight ticks left to give Kennebunk a commanding 10-2 lead at the break.

Brunswick came firing out of the gates in the second half and earned back-to-back goals from Ben Palizay and Andrew Eno to cut the lead to 10-4.

Thibodeau answered for the Rams to push the lead to 11-4, but Brunswick came right back with a goal from Glover to make it an 11-5 score heading into the fourth quarter.

The fourth quarter was all Rams as they outscored the Dragons 5-1 to secure the win. Kennebunk got goals from Whitten, Beveridge, Cam Lovejoy, Thibodeau and Gassman in the final period. Max Gramins scored the lone fourth-quarter goal for Brunswick.

Kennebunk goalie Jim Ross had a big game as he stopped 18 shots and helped keep a potent Brunswick offense in check.

Brunswick (5-1) welcomes in Mt. Ararat on Wednesday at 7 p.m.