Check out the results for SOL boys/lacrosse teams in action on Friday.
BOYS
COUNCIL ROCK NORTH 11, CENTRAL BUCKS SOUTH 8
Junior Jack Early tallied three goals to go along with two assists and three ground balls in CR North’s victory over CB South. Early had plenty of help as four teammates scored twice: freshman Peter Lehman (two assists, two ground balls), Jack Jogerst (ground ball), Freddy Germana (ground ball) and senior Ben Hoefer (assist, two ground balls).
Ian Waitkos had three ground balls for the Indians, while Beckett Thompson tied for the team lead with five to go along with an assist. Max Jogerst chipped in with five as well. Defender Nick Murray added two ground balls, while Connor Thatcher and Joey Scardino picked up one.
Phil Huddy made 12 saves in the winning effort.
Coach John Fitzpatrick lauded the strong play of middies Jack Early and Ben Hoefer as well as freshman Peter Lehman on attack.
CB South got goals from five different scorers, led by Dante Poli with three to go along with an assist. Ian Vogt scored twice to go along with an assist, while Dan Mignango scored and added an assist. Angus Balentine and Colin Abbonizo each scored once for the Titans, while Austin Novick had two helpers.
CB South grabbed 33 ground balls as a team, with Poli leading the charge with seven. Balentine, Mark Lumb, Mike Dutkiewicz and Brad Ross each chipped in three apiece. Adding two ground balls were Novick and DJ Loverdi, and Vogt, Abbonizo, Matt Franks, Joe Gannon, Evan Quinn, Ryan Sphar, Andrew Fratangelli, Joe Delurentis and Joe Mag each picked up one.
Lumb won 11 of his 17 faceoffs and Ross had six saves in goal for the Titans.
Council Rock North (5-5, 2-2 SOL) will host Lansdale Catholic in a non-league game on Monday, and Central Bucks South (6-6, 2-3) will be on the road at Boyertown for a non-league contest.
UPPER DUBLIN 11, SOUDERTON 5
Souderton took its first loss of the season to defending league and district champ Upper Dublin. UD raced out to a 3-0 first quarter lead and never looked back, led by Jed Hanson’s four scores.
Max Winebrake scored three times and added an assist, while Jerry Bardol, Sanjay Foster, Brian McCarry, Jason Williams and Cary Romig all added a goal. Hanson scooped four ground balls, while Winebrake and Bardol had three. Nick Sowers also had four ground balls, and Anthony Cerminara contributed three.
“We knew they were going to be tough,” UD head coach Dave Sowers said. “We got a little bit into our kids and said, ‘Look, we have to get after them.’”
Sophomore Lucas Roselli had a team-leading six ground balls and won 14 of his 20 faceoffs against Souderton ace Jake Phaup, who is bound for Syracuse, the top men’s lacrosse program in the country.
“It really started with Lucas,” Sowers said. “This young sophomore didn’t shy away from the senior (Phaup) who’s going to Syracuse and all of this hype. He was just being tough and saying, ‘Hey, I’m going to battle.’ It was good to see.”
Dillon Lojeski made 12 saves in goal and was aided by strong defense from Sowers, Cerminara, Chris McDermott, Jake DiMartille, Sam Polin and Malik Bootman.
The Souderton sidelines included a familiar face to fans of Upper Dublin lacrosse. Josh Wilcox, a 2004 graduate of UD and captain of his lacrosse team, was the defensive coordinator at Upper Dublin last year during the Flying Cardinals’ run to the state semifinals. This year he is serving in the same capacity at Souderton after accepting a teaching position in the district.
When Wilcox left, Sowers called on Roger Reynolds to fill the vacated position. Reynolds – who had been on the staff at Episcopal Academy – was the face-off coach of Christian Feliziani, a face-off specialist on the USA U19 gold medal team with former UD standout Michael Sowers.
“Roger came along and basically grabbed Lucas late in the picture,” coach Sowers said. “I called Lucas’ dad and said, ‘Roger really thinks Lucas has what it takes. Would he be interested in doing The Faceoff Academy?’ His dad said, ‘Lucas wants to be good.’”
If Sowers needed confirmation that Roselli was the right person for the job, he received it during a conversation with Feliziani.
“I said to him ‘What would be the top thing you would look for in a faceoff guy?’” Sowers said. “I thought he was going to say quickness. Christian said, ‘Coach, it’s toughness. You’ve got to be tough because you’ve got to battle. You’re going to come across a kid that’s better than you, but you’ve got to battle.’
“I coach Lucas in football. He’s a young sophomore, he’s tough as nails, and when Roger saw him, he said, ‘He’s got the toughness, he’s got the quickness, he’s got the athleticism.’ When Lucas’ dad said, ‘He wants to be good,’ that’s all it took.
“Roger had gotten in Lucas’ head before today’s game that Souderton really goes on how their faceoff guy goes. Lucas went out on the very first faceoff and won it clean and pushed out on a fast break. The next thing you know, the next faceoff and Lucas won that one. After that, I think he got in the kid’s head.”
Upper Dublin (6-5, 4-1 SOL) will host Owen J Roberts on Monday in a non-league game, and Souderton (12-1, 4-1) will host Roman on Monday night in a non-league contest.
Upper Dublin 3-3-3-2 11
Souderton 0-2-1-2 5
PENNRIDGE 12, NESHAMINY 4
Pennridge used a high-powered second half to put away Neshaminy, outscoring the ‘Skins 6-1 after going into halftime with a 6-3 lead. Chris Warner scored four times and added two assists, and Kevin Britner (assist) and Nick Fanelli each found the back of the net three times.
PJ Matkowski and Joey Murreda also scored for Pennridge, and Brandan Howell chipped in with an assist.
Tristan Banks made five saves in goal for the Rams.
Pennridge (7-5, 2-3 SOL) will travel to Radnor High School on Saturday to take on
Harriton at the Katie Samson Lacrosse Festival at 1 p.m.
Pennridge 4-2-3-3 12
Neshaminy 1-2-1-0 4
CENTRAL BUCKS WEST 16, COUNCIL ROCK SOUTH 2
Joey Rockovich contributed six goals and one assist, and eight of his teammates added goals in a contest the Bucks controlled from the outset. The Bucks, who led 5-0 after one quarter, took an 8-1 lead into halftime and duplicated that effort in the second half.
Also for the Bucks, Brandon Gervais and Matt Kubit scored two goals apiece. Contributing one goal each were Shane Early, Jake Carey, Mike Kilkenny, John McCreary, Christian Kunkel and Nick Werner.
Mike Samson had three assists while Erik Ojert, Jake Ojert, Early, Gervais and Werner had one helper each.
Werner and Andrew Santacecilia both scooped up five ground balls to lead the Bucks. Ben Karthaus added three ground balls.
Max Dunar (three saves) and Conner Garrison (one goal) split time in goal in the win.
Central Bucks West (9-2, 5-0 SOL) will travel to North Penn on Monday for a key conference matchup, and Council Rock South (4-4, 1-2) will travel to Archbishop Wood for a non-league contest on Monday.
Council Rock South 0-1-1-0 2
Central Bucks West 5-3-5-3 16
CENTRAL BUCKS EAST 19, HARRY S TRUMAN 2
The Patriots led 10-0 at halftime on their way to a convincing win over the visiting Tigers.
Ryan Stout scored four goals and assisted on another to lead a balanced Patriot attack. Ryan Brown and Ryan Schmidt both added a hat trick. Brown also had a pair of assists. Greg Scholz added two goals and three assists, and Ryan Gray had two goals and one assist. Adding one goal each were Alec Bracken, Hayden Durr, Connor Martin, Jake Ventresca and Michael Circuit.
Ryan Bullotta had three assists, and chipping in one helper each were Brant Billingsley, Colin Stein, Evan O’Donnell and Jeremy Powers.
As a team, the Patriots won 20-of-24 face-offs. Ventresca and Stein were a perfect 5-of-5 while Martin won 4-of-5. Michael Ott was 4-of-6 and John Galow won 2-of-3.
Ventresca finished with a team-high five ground balls while Ott, Bryan McIntosh and Stein had four apiece. Martin, Tyler Tracy and Galow each had three while Joe Thiroway and Jake Kueny both had two. Adding one each were Hayden Durr, Billingsley, Brown, Jacob Manion, Liam Rosenthal, Evan O’Donnell, Drew Bethke, Dan Burgos and Circuit.
Thiroway, Brown, Circuit, Manion, Galow, Martin and Kueny each had one caused turnover.
Central Bucks East (9-2, 5-0 SOL) will travel to West Chester Rustin on Saturday for a non-league contest, and Harry S Truman (0-7, 0-4) will host Council Rock North on Tuesday.
Harry S Truman 0-0-1-1 2
Central Bucks East 6-4-5-4 19
HATBORO-HORSHAM 14, QUAKERTOWN 1
PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 17, CHELTENHAM 1
GIRLS
ABINGTON 10, UPPER DUBLIN 9
Abington loaded the nonconference portion of its schedule with top-tier competition, with the idea it would pay off in the postseason.
Friday, the Ghosts got a playoff-type challenge from one of their fellow SOL American teams. It felt like a playoff game, it looked like a playoff game and it came down to the final few seconds. In the end, it was Abington that outlasted Upper Dublin in a duel between the last two unbeaten American teams.
As for getting that type of test from a conference foe? Abington coach Amanda Kammes was all for it.
"That was a playoff game in my opinion," the Ghosts’ coach said. "It's really nice to see some people in our league having good teams this year and there being a little bit of parity. That's only going to help the conference going into District I. That's going to give us a little more clout."
Sam McGee did her thing, scoring six goals, assisting another and picking up three ground balls, but this win was as much about the rest of the Ghosts. Abington's defense in particular was very good, able to pack in and force Upper Dublin to loft passes inside.
Abington had some problems finishing the game out, with Upper Dublin winning a couple of late draw controls and cutting a three-goal lead down to one with six seconds left, but it was the summation of those defensive plays that added up. It wasn't always an outright caused turnover, but it was plays like Hecka Morris deflecting a pass, Maddie Sjoholm taking a ground ball and flipping the field or Jules Greco sweeping it to dislodge the ball from a Cardinal player's stick that made things happen.
"I think a lot of people overlook (defense) but we feel we have one of the best defenses in the area," Kammes said. "Certainly it's a high score, but it's not as high as it could have been. Certainly shooting space plays a role in it, but I'm not going to tell my defense not to slide into help. If we slide into shooting space, so be it."
Upper Dublin took a 3-0 lead five minutes into the game, prompting an Abington timeout. The Ghosts responded, scoring the next five goals to take a lead they wouldn't lose again.
"We talked about what we needed to do and get back to playing Abington lacrosse," Ghosts midfielder Kaley Ehnow said. "Our schedule this year has been pretty tough, so going into this game we felt confident."
Upper Dublin's Becky Browndorf scored two goals in a 20-second span to tie the game at 5-5, but the Ghosts closed the half with some flair, netting two goals in the final 25 seconds to restore their lead. Cathy Staerk fired a pass from behind the net to a cutting McGee for the go-ahead goal and Casey McCallister made it 7-5 with a free-position shot as the halftime horn sounded.
Browndorf led Upper Dublin with three goals but Upper Dublin's young attack had stretches where it forced some shots, had a couple turnovers and missed a few other chances. Much like Abington's defensive plays added up, so did those errors for the visitors.
"They were taking us off of our passing but at the end, we came back and figured it out," Cardinals coach Dee Cross said. "It's about being consistent and keep working hard. I always talk about mental toughness, and they've shown that in a lot of games. Today, Abington was just a little bit better."
Cross added Abington didn't do anything her team wasn't prepared for in attack, but the way the Ghosts set up for draw controls was something the Cardinals hadn't seen yet this season. While Upper Dublin won more of the draw controls, Enhow took over in the circle during the Ghosts' runs and ended up with six draw controls for the game.
The Ghosts built a 10-6 edge with 11 minutes left, and got what looked like an insurance goal from Lindsay Baer with about five minutes to go. It turned out that Abington needed every one of them.
Caroline Wall and Jackie Rama, two of Upper Dublin's more potent attackers who had been held silent, scored to cut the 10-6 lead in half before Baer's goal. After the senior made it 11-8, Wall scored with three minutes to play and Rama got one in with six seconds left.
"Today was a tough one for both teams," Kammes said. "This weather was like playoff lacrosse. It's hot, miserable, humid, it's what you're going to see all the way into May. This was a big one for us. I knew and the kids knew that this year was going to be much more of a battle and that was the point. I want them to feel like they've already been in the playoffs when we get there."
Abington (8-3, 5-0 SOL) will face Penn Charter on Saturday at Radnor High School as part of the Katie Samson Lacrosse Festival in a non-league game, and Upper Dublin (8-3, 4-1) will take on Shipley School on Saturday at the Katie Samson Festival in a non-league game.
UPPER DUBLIN 5 5 – 10
ABINGTON 7 4 -11
CHELTENHAM 13, BONNER-PRENDIE 10
Cheltenham used three goals apiece from Liza Becker and Corinne Packel to dispatch Bonner-Prendie in a nonleague contest. Becker also had an assist and a ground ball, while Packel added two ground balls. Dana Shelton added two goals to go along with four ground balls and two draw controls, and Marycait Dorely also scored twice to go along with two draw controls. Khyle Griffin also had one goal.
Cheltenham head coach Didi Dean called her team’s victory “a team effort,” as the Panthers led 5-2 at halftime and exploded for eight goals in the second half.
Amber Turner (one ground ball, one draw control), Brianna Young (three ground balls, two draw controls) also contributed. Morgan Sloan made nine saves in goal.
Cheltenham (5-8, 1-4 SOL) will travel to Abington on Monday.
Cheltenham 5-8 13
Bonner-Prendergast 2-8 10
CENTRAL BUCKS SOUTH 16, NEW HOPE-SOLEBURY 1
Kasey Dietzel tallied an eye-popping eight goals to go along with three assists, and was aided by Anna Green’s three goals and four assists in CB South’s rout of New Hope-Solebury.
Kristen Berntsen (two assists) and Melissa Veal each scored twice, while Molly Sullivan chipped in one goal. Madi Tomaselli had one assist for the Titans.
Laura Robinson made eight saves in goal, while Dietzel secured six draw controls and Ashley Gammon caused three turnovers.
Caroline Thistlewaite scored New Hope’s only goal.
Central Bucks South (6-5, 3-1 SOL) will host Baldwin in a non-league game on Monday.
Central Bucks South 9-7 16
New Hope-Solebury 1-0 1
CENTRAL BUCKS EAST 15, EMMAUS 9
CB East had several players crash the scoring party in the team’s nonleague win over Emmaus. Mel Burian sat atop the scorer’s sheet with four goals, while freshman Riley Forman scored three goals and added an assist.
Maggie Vetter (assist), Sara Donnelly (three assists), Brigitte Bishop and Whitney Dietz all found the back of the net twice. Makenzie Boyle tallied an assist for the Patriots and Lauren Maurer made six saves in goal.
Anna Lehman led Emmaus with five goals.
Central Bucks East (8-5, 3-2 SOL) will host Jenkintown on Monday.
PLYMOUTH-WHITEMARSH 19, QUAKERTOWN 1
PW got a balanced attack in a lopsided victory over Quakertown. Ali Diamond (two assists) and Lexi Petrakis each scored five times and had plenty of help in this one.
Vic Betterly had three goals and three assists, while Lilly Hanlon scored twice to go along with an assist. Raquel Baskin, Sam Ward, Amanda Fineman and Lucy Sullivan also added scores for PW, which stormed out to an 11-1 halftime lead and never relented.
“We continue to work hard and our younger players and learning and improving,” PW head coach Ellen Reilly said.
Plymouth Whitemarsh (2-8, 2-3 SOL) will host Perkiomen Valley in a non-league game on Saturday.
Quakertown 1-0 1
Plymouth-Whitemarsh 11-8 19
PENN CHARTER 13, WISSAHICKON 7
Emily Vervlied reached a prestigious milestone when she scored her 200th goal with 4:36 remaining in regulation of Friday’s non-league game.
“This is a huge milestone of her lacrosse career at Wissahickon,” coach Alexis Vanderslice said. “The team celebrated by storming the field to congratulate their senior center on her accomplishment.
“Emily will be attending Boston University next year to continue her lacrosse career, and the team could not be more excited for her future in the world of lacrosse. Congratulations, Emily.”
Vervlied led the Trojans with three goals and one assist. Sam Intrieri added two goals, and Carolyn Wilde had one goal and one assist. Adding one goal each were Kelly Dickson and Bella Ferrante.
Wissahickon (3-10, 2-3 SOL) will travel to Plymouth Whitemarsh on Monday.
WEST CHESTER HENDERSON 14, SOUDERTON 10
Carlie Doughty led the visiting Indians with four goals, one assist and four draw controls. Riley McGowan had two goals, one assist and four draw controls. Kaitlyn Mardi added a pair of goals. Contributing one goal each were Anna Anello and Cece Puente. Maddie Knight had one assist.
Souderton goalie Lauren Scott had 10 saves.
Souderton (7-5, 3-2 SOL) will host Quakertown on Monday.
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