Junior Bucktooth, Ross Bucktooth, and Lee Nanticoke join a growing list of Onondaga community players who have earned National Championships in Lacrosse including: Oren Lyons – Syracuse University, Dave Waterman – SUNY Cortland, Travis Solomon – Syracuse University, Neal Powless – Nazareth College, Marshall Abrams – Syracuse University, AJ Bucktooth -Syracuse University, Michael Abrams – Herkimer CC, Brett Bucktooth – Syracuse University, and Cory Sullivan – Lemoyne College.
The Onondaga Nation would also congradulate our cousins from Oshwegan for being apart of this Championship team: Cody Jamieson, Kent Squires-Hill, Craig Point, Isah Kicknosway, and Sid Smith.
Special note: Cody Jamieson was named offensive MVP and Junior Bucktooth, Sid Smith, and Kent Squires-Hill were named to the All-Tournament team.
Lazers score 18 unanswered goals to win first national lacrosse championship
Monday, May 15, 2006
By Jeff Gold
Contributing writer
Uniondale Before the game, the only question was, “how much?” After the game, the question became, “how good are they?” 
As in, how much is Onondaga Community College going to win by, and how good is OCC compared to the best four-year college programs in the country?
A year of dominating opponents concluded with perhaps the most one-sided win of all. No. 1 OCC defeated No. 3 Suffolk Community College 30-6 to win the NJCAA national championship on Sunday at the Mitchel Athletic Center on Long Island.
The win concluded an unbelievably dominant season. En route to going 18-0, Onondaga outscored opponents 445-80, or by an average score of 25-4. It never won a game by fewer than eight goals and left all observers mesmerized by its up-tempo, unselfish style.
“This is the best junior college team in history,” said Onondaga coach Chuck Wilbur, who was a two-time All-American at Herkimer and won a national championship in 1996. “There is no team that has ever gone through a season like this, beating the quality of teams we did by the margin we did. There has never been a team that has dominated like this.”
After Suffolk tied the score at 2-2 with 9:43 left in the first quarter, Onondaga scored 18 straight goals to take a 20-2 halftime lead. It led 26-4 after the third.
Despite the lopsided score, the players and coaches reveled in the joy of winning the school’s first men’s lacrosse national championship. Players rushed the field when the clock ran out, threw their gear in the air, and took mementos like the game net and game ball.
“It’s the greatest feeling ever. It’s a dream,” said OCC’s Nick Gatto, who had five goals and three assists. “An undefeated season with total dominance. What else could anyone want?” 
Cody Jamieson was named the offensive MVP with five goals and six assists. Starting goalie Stefan Schroder was named defensive MVP after making 15 saves.
Onondaga scored in every possible imaginable way.
“We just enjoy playing with each other,” Gatto said. “This is the best team any of us will probably ever play on. We have so many different styles. We jelled as one and we’re so tough to stop. Nobody could hang with us this year.”
The questionremains, how would Onondaga actually do against four-year colleges? In the preseason, it scrimmaged Ithaca, a top Division III team, and won by 12 goals.
“There are great teams in Division I, so I’m not sure,” Wilbur said. “But these guys can play at any level. We have an unselfish group with unbelievable talent.” “I can’t say we’d beat every team, but I think we could play with any team in the country,” said Brendan Storrier, who scored five goals and five assists.
For now, simply knowing it is the best junior college team in 2006 and possibly history will have to suffice. Onondaga can now look to establish itself as, in Storrier’s words, “the new Herkimer,” referring to the junior college that has won nine national championships.
OCC has 19 freshman on its 33-player squad and could return as a team that will be the overwhelming choice to repeat for the national title.
“We’ll enjoy this one for a while, and next year hopefully we can come back and defend it,” Wilbur said. “We have a great class coming back, and some great recruits. We play an exciting style that attracts great players, so we hope this is the first of many championships.” OCC 30, Suffolk 6 Suffolk2022 – 6 Onondaga101064 – 30 Onondaga- Cody Jamieson 5-6, Brendan Storrier 5-5, Nick Gatto 5-3, A.J. Vaughn 4-0, Kent Squires-Hill 3-1, Craig Point 2-1, Lee Nanticoke 2-0, Adam Orlandella 1-0, Jay Tranello 1-0, Mike DiFusco 1-0. Saves: Stefan Schroder 15. (Ross Bucktooth 3, Nick Sigona 2). Suffolk- Tim McAleavey 2-0, Brandon Choplain 2-0, Joe Giardinello 0-2, Alex Rosero 1-0, Jeff Flandina 1-0, Randy Lucas 0-1. Saves: Ian Pennington 11. (Nha Phenthavone 5).