Check out the recaps for SOL boys/girls lacrosse teams in action Tuesday.
Boys
SOL National Conference
PENNRIDGE 19, COUNCIL ROCK NORTH 11
The Rams opened up a 10-4 halftime lead over the visiting Indians and never looked back.
Kevin Britner and Nicholas Fanelli combined for 13 goals. Britner led the Rams with seven goals while Fanelli had six goals and three assists. Logan Lazasz added four goals and two assists while Ryan Garner had one goal and three assists. Dan Hart chipped in one goal while Jack Garner and Hartzell each had one assist.
Austin Swartley was credited with seven saves in goal while Kieran Banks had one save.
Pennridge (7-6, 3-3 SOL) will travel to the Shipley School for a non-league game on Thursday. Council Rock North (7-5, 2-4) will host Springfield Township on Wednesday.
Council Rock North 3-1-2-5 11
Pennridge 6-4-3-6 19
CENTRAL BUCKS WEST 7, CENTRAL BUCKS SOUTH 5
The Bucks opened up a 5-2 halftime lead over the visiting Titans and led the rest of the way.
Twins Erik and Jake Ojert led the Bucks with two goals and one assist each. Jake Ojert had a team high five ground balls while Erik had four. David Ross added a goal and an assist. Jake Lang and Christian Kunkel each had one goal. Conor Albrecht and Jeff Woosnam both had an assist to close out the scoring.
For the Titans, Colin Abbonizio had a pair of goals, and Angus Ballentine had a goal and an assist. Austin Novick and Cole Cenci each contributed a goal.
West goalie Max Dunar and South goalie Colin Bernstein both recorded 12 saves. Blake Ewaskey had four ground balls.
West senior Garrett Hitchens won 9 of 15 face-offs.
Central Bucks West (11-2, 6-0 SOL) will travel to North Penn for a conference showdown on Friday, and Central Bucks South (7-6, 3-2) will be on the road at Abington on Thursday.
Central Bucks West 3-2-0-2 7
Central Bucks South 1-1-1-2 5
NORTH PENN 13, NESHAMINY 7
The Knights opened up a 6-2 lead after one quarter, but the Redskins pulled to within two at the intermission (7-5). The Knights turned up the defensive pressure in the second half, allowing only two third period goals and shutting out the Redskins in the final period.
Lucas Yannul led the Knights’ attack with four goals and one assist. Stephen Rinck contributed two goals and one assist while Danny Payne, Jake Homan and Dakari Luby each had two goals. Jack Kim had one goal, and Conor Young added an assist.
Will Morrow won 14 face-offs while RJ Macnamara won two.
North Penn goalie Bryon Rimmer was credited with five saves in the win.
The Redskins were led by the four-goal effort of Connor McVey. Nick Donato added two goals and an assist. Noah Weiman contributed one goal while Luke Sermarini both chipped in one assist.
North Penn (9-5, 6-0 SOL) will host Central Bucks West on Friday, and Neshaminy (7-6, 1-5) will travel to Bishop Shanahan for a non-league game on Wednesday.
North Penn 6-1-4-2 13
Neshaminy 2-3-2-0 7
SOL American Conference
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP 8, SOUDERTON 7
Zach Coppol faked right, cut left into open space and buried his shot to give the Spartans a two-goal lead on the road with three minutes left.
Of course, that would have been too easy a finish for the Spartans. For the second straight day, the Spartans found themselves in a one-goal game only this one ended better than Monday's.
"In the fourth quarter, we played well as a team and just stuck together,” attackman Paul Richardson said. “They were mounting a nice comeback but our defense and Paul (Asman) made a couple nice saves, we were able to bring the ball down, hold the ball and that was it.”
Coppol had the eventual game-winner, but Richardson was the Spartans' catalyst. The junior midfielder, who also had a massive presence defensively, scored five goals and assisted on another including the final go-ahead goal with five minutes to play.
Senior goalie Paul Asman came up with a huge save with about 1:10 left on the clock and a final Souderton turnover with about 30 seconds left allowed Springfield to close out the win. The victory not only pushed the Spartans to 3-1 in one-goal games this spring, it kept them tied atop the SOL American while knocking Souderton out of that logjam.
"We’ve been through too much to let shots like that bring us down,” Asman said. “We weren’t going to let that faze us. We know we have a great offense, they kept us in the game and it was just an all-around team win.”
Richardson scored the game's opening goal, but Souderton got the next two. Asman made a save, then found Richardson on an outlet with the midfielder carrying the ball the rest of the way for the tying goal.
That scored kicked off a 3-0 Springfield Township spurt that put the Spartans up for most of the game.
"Playing against all these good teams, we look at it as practice for if we make the playoffs," Richardson said. "We've been in all these close games and we know how to excel in these close games so if we get into these situations in the playoffs, we can pull it out like we did tonight."
Cole Witoslawski led Souderton with a hat trick and got the Indians within 6-5 at the end of the third quarter. Luke Halteman scored on a long-range shot to tie the game in the fourth with 5:33 to play.
Richardson only needed 23 seconds to restore the lead before Coppol added the insurance goal that ended up the game-winner.
"I think we've grown all-around," Richardson said. "We've gotten a lot better, on defense our slides and our talking is much better and on offense, we're getting quality shots and we're able to move the ball around the horn and do whatever we want."
Also for the Indians, Matt Rauch had two goals and one assist, and Brock Azell had one goal. Goalie Axell Beskar recorded 13 saves, and Luke Atiyeh scooped up four ground balls.
Springfield Township (7-5, 4-1 SOL) will travel to Council Rock North Wednesday, and Souderton (9-4, 3-2) will be on the road at Plymouth Whitemarsh Wednesday.
Springfield 1-4-1-2 8
Souderton 1-2-2-2 7
WISSAHICKON 19, UPPER MORELAND 1
The Trojans led by just a 3-0 score at the end of one quarter but erupted for 11 goals in the second period to take complete control of the contest. Ten players contributed goals for the Trojans.
Harrison Williams led the way with four goals while Owen Baim (two goals, two assists) and Dean Wolfe (three goals, one assist) both had a hand in four goals. Jackson Intrieri had two goals and one assist while Brody Myers and Michael Licata each had two goals. Contributing one goal each were Chase Ott, Samuel Baker, Ryan Brown and Brett Lehman. Alex Solomon had an assist.
Matt Fritz, who also had an assist, won 12 of 14 face-offs.
Wissahickon (9-4, 5-1 SOL) will travel to the Shipley School for a non-league game Saturday. Upper Moreland (3-9, 2-4) will be on the road at Frankford Wednesday.
Upper Moreland 0-0-0-1 1
Wissahickon 3-11-3-2 19
ABINGTON 21, QUAKERTOWN 1
Girls
HATBORO-HORSHAM 10, COUNCIL ROCK NORTH 9
The Hatters raced out of the gate to an 8-3 halftime lead and then had to hold off a hard-charging Indian squad to eke out the win. The Hatters – who scored just two goals after the intermission – were down a player for the final 10 minutes of the game.
Goalie Arielle Hammer was able to scoop up a ground ball late in the game and pass it down the field to seal the victory. Junior Gabrielle Liott scored her 100th career goal. She came into the game needing only one goal and was able to score early in the first half to reach the milestone.
Liott led the Hatters with four goals and an assist. Cam Ryan added a hat trick while Audrey Leibfreid had two goals. Lydia Nolin added one goal, and Lindsey Coats added an assist. Gabrielle and Sophia Liott combined to win 11 of 18 draw controls.
For the Indians, freshman Morgan McCaffrey and sophomore Grace Vliet led the way with three goals each. Senior Lucy Breithaupt had a hand in five goals, scoring a pair and assisting on three others. Senior Oliva Huddy added a single goal.
Hatboro-Horsham (8-5, 3-3 SOL) will host Springfield Township on Wednesday, and Council Rock North (1-11, 0-5) will host Central Bucks West Wednesday.
Council Rock North 3-6 9
Hatboro-Horsham 8-2 10
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