All of the activity at the end of April did not mean that area girls lacrosse teams would get too much rest once the calendar turned to May.
Jamesville-DeWitt found a way to rebound from its April 28 defeat at West Genesee, though it didn’t prove easy as the Red Rams faced Auburn last Tuesday and claimed an 8-7 overtime victory over the Maroons.
Auburn dictated the game’s tempo, and only trailed 3-2 at halftime. This allowed the Maroons to respond even when the Rams found more success on the attack during the second half.
Regulation ended 7-7, but J-D got the decisive goal in OT as Ana Dieroff, Riley Burns and Jordan Archer each scored twice, with Lindsay MacLachlan and Katie Lutz adding single goals. MacLachlan got two assists as Skyler Constantin made 10 saves.
Now, on Thursday night, J-D took on Fulton, whom it held off 10-9 in April. This one was wilder, with the Red Rams having to make quite a comeback and go to overtime again to beat the Red Raiders 16-15.
Led by Mallori Kitts (four goals, four assists) and Keara Patterson (four goals, three assists), Fulton worked its way to a 10-6 halftime edge, only to have J-D’s defense adjust well and limit the Red Raiders’ chances.
This gave the Rams time to catch up, as it outscored Fulton 9-5 for the rest of regulation and, again, found the game-winner in OT to cap a night where Lutz and Dieroff led the way with four goals apiece.
Burns also had four points, scoring three times and adding an assist. MacLachlan converted twice as Archer, Chloe Loewenguth and Arysa Lux contributed single goals.
And all of this led to Saturday’s game against East Syracuse Minoa, the neighborhood battle going 18-6 in J-D’s favor. Steadily, the Rams built a 12-4 halftime margin against a porous Spartans defense.
Dieroff (four goals, one assist) and Lutz (two goals, four assists) set J-D’s pace. Burns got three goals and one assist as Lux and Chloe Lowenguth both had two goals and two assists. Kailey McKenna also scored twice.
Behind them, Lily Loewenguth put up one goal and one assist. ESM’s six goals came from six different players – Kelly Thomas, Taylor Filmer, Emma Biel, Marissa Drogo, Julianna Barton and Julia Carauna – as Rileigh White earned two assists.
Christian Brothers Academy, who had lost three times this season, started to build a win streak last Monday when it went to Jordan-Elbridge and put away the Eagles 21-7.
Olivia Penoyer managed six goals and two assists, with Grace Hulslander adding five goals and two assists. Gracie Britton and Gia Anthony each contributed three-goal hat tricks as Claire Jeschke and Riley Taylor had two goals apiece, Jeschke adding two assists. Tate Kohlbrenner also had two assists and Bella Perigis one assist.
Then came back-to-back weekend games, starting Friday with a 23-5 win over Homer where Kohlbrenner set a career mark with five goals and two assists, which Penoyer matched.
Anthony and Britton both finished with three goals and two assists, while Jeschke and Hulslander both got two goals and two assists. Taylor and Bella Roberson each got one goal and one assist.
Then, against Cicero-North Syracuse on Saturday, CBA proved quite impressive, handling the Northstars 16-6 largely on the basis of a tremendous start as the Brothers sped to a 12-3 halftime margin.
Penoyer matched C-NS by herself with six goals, adding an assist as Jeschke got three goals and five assists. Hulslander scored twice and had three assists as Anna Ziemba added two goals. Anthony, Kohlbrenner and Britton had one goal apiece.
ESM had, like CBA and J-D, lost the previous Saturday, but in the Spartans’ case its April 28 defeat to Central Square was followed up by more struggles last Tuesday as it fell to Fulton 21-12.
During a decisive first half, the Red Raiders buried ESM with 18 goals, many of them by Hailey Carroll, who eventually set a Fulton single-game school mark by finding the net 11 times to go with two assists.
To its credit, ESM did cut into that massive deficit. Filmer and Thomas each scored three times, with White and Biel getting two goals apiece. Barton notched three assists as Emma Eckl and Kathleen Andrus both scored, too.
When ESM played Auburn on Thursday, it proved quite a contrast from when J-D took on that same squad as the Maroons broke out its attack and beat the Spartans in yet another 21-12 decision.
For a while, ESM tried to keep up, only trailed 12-8 at the break, but Auburn had too much firepower as Gabby McGinn (five goals, two assists) and Natalie Calandria-Ryan (four goals, four assists) paced them.
Barton led the Spartans, scoring four times. Thomas and Sophia Orlando had two goals apiece as Biel and White each got one goal and one assist. Andrus and Caruana also found the net.
