Check out the results for SOL lacrosse teams in action Wednesday. Please visit our gallery to view photos of the CB West vs Pennsbury girls' lacrosse game.
Boys
CENTRAL BUCKS EAST 7, HATBORO-HORSHAM 4
Central Bucks East defeated defending SOL Continental champion Hatboro-Horsham for the second time this season on Wednesday night at War Memorial Field, this time by a score of 7-4. The Patriots move to 10-2 overall (7-0 in SOL play).
CB East’s Matt Vetter put the Patriots on the scoreboard at the 8:15 mark of the first period on a feed from Matt Brown. Brendan Milligan tied it up for Hatboro at the 6:12 mark on a feed from Zach Erwine, and the teams played a defensive chess match looking for a weakness in the first quarter.
East’s Zach Nelsen scored his first goal of the year and Matt Brown added another putting the Patriots up by two goals in the second. Hatboro would not back down and Zach Erwine found the back of the net with just four seconds left in the half, bringing the Hatters within one goal to end the half (3-2).
The third quarter was “Heim Time” with senior captain Matt Heim scoring three goals (two of them unassisted) to give the Patriots a comfortable 6-2 lead. Pierrie Armstrong scored for the Hatters on a man up to a close the gap to 6-3 to end the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, it was Matt Vetter connecting again, this time unassisted, giving the Patriots a 7-3 CBE lead. Zach Erwine add his second goal of the night for the Hatters with just 31 seconds left but it was not enough, and the Patriots would sweep the Hatters this year.
Andrew Del Bracco was almost perfect at the “x”, winning 13 out of 14 face offs, and Sean McGovern put in another outstanding performance in the goal for the Patriots recording 16 saves.
The CBE defense made very few mistakes. Dustin Buchanan, Tyler Butler, Will Dempster and Mike Eveland along with the CBE defensive mids played a tight suffocating defense. Marc Poust had 12 saves in the goal for the Hatters. Up next for Patriots will be CB West in a league match on Tuesday.
1 2 3 4 Totals
CBE 1 2 3 1 7
Hatboro 1 1 1 1 4
CB East Scoring:
CB East had 7 goals on 35 shots.
Matt Heim – 3g
Matt Vetter – 2g
Zach Nelsen – 1g, 6gb’s
Matt Brown – 1g, 1a
Matt Milici – 2a
Matt Schmidt – 1a
Andrew Del Bracco 13 of 14, 9 gb’s
Dustin Buchanan – 7gb’s, 3 CT’s
Will Dempster – 3 gb’s, 1 CT’s
Sean McGovern – 16 Saves
Hatboro:
Hatboro had 4 goals on 20 Shots
Zach Erwine – 2g, 1a
Brandan Milligan – 1g
Pierrie Armstrong – 1g
Marc Poust – 12 saves
SOUDERTON 9, NORTH PENN 6
Cam Trick scored five goals and added an assist to lead the Indians to the big win against their neighboring rivals. Trent Breneman added a pair of goals while Greg Gibbs had a goal and assist. Nick Anderson added a single goal, and Drew Nice and Cory Anlauf both contributed assists.
Coach Mark Princehorn lauded the stellar effort in goal of Remi Reeves and also credited Hunter McGowan, Vinny Stranges, Justin Russell, Chris Malanga and Sean Readinger for turning in strong defensive games.
ABINGTON 14, COUNCIL ROCK SOUTH 11
Joey Lomady won 19 face-offs for the Ghosts and also had two goals and one assist. The Ghosts were led offensively by the five-goal, one-assist effort of junior Cameron Leech. Also making important offensive contributions were Hunter Jones (two goals, three assist), Brian Gallagher (four goals) and Will Dulin (two goals, one assist). John Wink, Tyler Dermer and Ryan Fetzer each chipped in an assist. Senior Blake Friedman was credited with five saves in goal. Pat McCormick led the Ghosts defensively.
For the Golden Hawks, Sam Presley and Shane McGrann led the attack with two goals each.
UPPER DUBLIN 8, WISSAHICKON 4
The Flying Cardinals opened up a 3-0 lead after one quarter only to watch the Trojans respond with three unanswered goals in the second quarter to knot things up 3-3 at the intermission. A four-goal outburst by the Cardinals in the third all but sealed the Trojans’ fate.
Michael Sowers had one goal and three assists while teammate Evan Scott had the hat trick and Michael Mullen had two goals and one assist. Zach Hanson added one goal and one assist, and Ryan Siwinski had one goal. Nick Vernacchio added a pair of assists.
Upper Dublin goalie Bobby McPeake was credited with 11 saves.
For the Trojans, Pat Magdalinski, John Esposito, Alex Ortiz and Jack Shea each contributed a goal while Nate DeGroat and John Carroza both had assists. Jack Myers was credited with eight saves in goal.
Upper Dublin 3-0-4-1 8
Wissahickon 0-3-0-1 4
COUNCIL ROCK NORTH 5, PENNSBURY 3
The Indians won a defensive battle with the Falcons, opening up a 3-1 halftime lead and then playing the Falcons even in the second half.
Zach Connors scored a pair of goals to lead the Indians, who also received single goals from Matt Moller, Brian Fitzpatrick and Gabe Smithline. Fitzpatrick, Moller and Lars Trice each had an assist.
The Falcons received single goals from Zach Abraham, Grant Montgomery and Greg Kolowajtis. Montgomery and John Conte both contributed an assist.
The Falcons held a 21-17 edge in shots. Rock North goalie Brett McDonald turned away nine shots while Pennsbury goalie Jack Kenney had seven saves.
Council Rock North 2-1-1-1 5
Pennsbury 1-0-1-1 3
SPRINGFIELD (MONTCO) 13, CHELTENHAM 0
Jamie Dougherty and Jack Gozzard both contributed three goals to lead a balanced Spartan attack. Brendan Doyle added a pair of goals while Ryan Donofry, Brendan O’Hara and Eddie Graham each added single goals. New goal scorers for the Spartans in Wednesday’s win were Nick DeQuevedo and Noah Sample.
“I was very proud of our composure and team effort,” coach Bill Krewson said. “We had numerous players score, and the top players were very unselfish.”
The win was third of the week for the Spartans, who defeated Plymouth Whitemarsh on Monday and followed that with a 17-3 win over Norristown in the torrential rain Tuesday. In Tuesday’s win, the team’s newest player to the game of lacrosse, foreign exchange student Justin Magnee from Belgium, scored his first ever goal.
“We had a good week of lacrosse, but we’ve got a ton of work to do if we are going to beat the top teams in our league,” Krewson said.
The Spartans are 4-4 in league play (5-4 overall).
Girls
CENTRAL BUCKS EAST 8, NORTH PENN 7
On April 11, 2013, the Patriots – winless the preceding season – stunned the Maidens by eking out a 9-8 win. Exactly one year and five days to the date of that stunner, the Patriots were back at it again, once again edging the Maidens by a goal but this time on North Penn’s own turf.
“I’m so excited and so happy for them,” East coach Kelly White said. “They’re a fun, fantastic, hard working group of girls. It’s really been a great experience for me, as a coach, to have them.
“They work hard, and they have faith in myself and the other coaches and the style of play we believe in. They’re trying to do everything we’re trying to teach them. You can’t ask for anything more than that, and when it all comes together, it results in a huge win for us. I’m very proud.”
The Patriots found themselves on the short end of a 4-3 halftime score.
“My experience with the girls thus far is that it sometimes takes the first five to 10 minutes of the game for them to start jelling and connecting with each other,” White said. “In the second half, I thought offensively we took advantage of the opportunities that we had.”
The real story of the second half, according to White, was the Patriots’ defense.
“The defense was just stellar,” she said. “We really played a double team defense, and I think that took away any offensive momentum North Penn had in the second half, and Alana (Rivas), in addition, was just coming up with these incredible saves.
“Our transition was doing well. Julia Norek was fantastic in the midfield with our transition as well as Kaitlyn Stout, and offensively, everybody chipped in.”
Lauren Burrell had a hat trick to lead the Patriots, and it was the junior attacker scoring the equalizer early in the second half and also a late goal to give the Patriots the 8-7 lead.
Norek finished with two goals and one assist, and Abby Crowley had one goal and one assist while Maggie Stella and Maggie Vetter both had one goal. Stout had a pair of assists while Michaela Daley and Alex Law each had one assist.
“It was a team effort,” White said. “Their strength is when they’re all connected to the game and connected to one another. That’s when they play their best, and that’s what really happened the second half.”
Rivas turned away 11 of 18 shots she faced in goal.
“She had a fantastic game,” White said of her junior goalie. “When she’s on, it just is a domino effect the remainder of the field.
“It just seems as though everyone connects to her saves and elevates their play. It’s pretty fun to watch.”
White went on to laud the defensive efforts of Stella, Law and Nicole Delfini.
“I’m so proud of the defense. I thought they played disciplined, and I thought our doubles were fantastic as well as our slides and bumps,” White said. “North Penn is very talented, so I was excited to see my defense step up their level of play. They really were playing as a unit.”
For the Maidens, Ashley Durham led the way with three goals while Sydney Lear had a pair. Emily Schulze and Kaitlin Suzuki each added one goal.
The Patriots upped their record to 3-1 in league play (7-3 overall) while the Maidens are 2-1 in the league (6-4 overall).
“This is new for me – I’d never beaten North Penn in my time,” said White, who is in her first year at the helm at East. “You can’t say great enough things about Jami’s program. It’s always a fundamentally, strong, aggressive team, so this is a huge win.
“It’s a huge win for our confidence going into the remainder of the games in our league because we definitely are facing some talented, tough teams in our league. This was great, and hopefully, it will help boost us.”
Central Bucks East 3 5-8
North Penn 4 3-7
UPPER DUBLIN 17, ABINGTON 7
Wednesday’s win over Abington marked a special milestone in the coaching career of Dee Cross. The win was number 200 of the Upper Dublin coach’s career – 90 of those came while she was at, interestingly, Abington.
“When I look back at my years at Abington, I’m still in touch with a lot of those girls,” Cross said. “It really was a very special time for me – to get started in coaching, to learn how to build a program.
“At Upper Dublin, it’s a completely different experience. I’m coaching my own daughters, which I never would have thought I’d have a chance to do. It adds a different element.”
On the opposite coaching sidelines were Abington grads Mary Kate Lomady, Kelly Condon, Alisha Aquilino and Steph Serben.
“I coached against all of them at Abington,” Cross said.
Children of two of her former assistants at Abington played for the Ghosts on Wednesday. Casey McAllister is the daughter of former assistant Donna McAllister and Sam McGee, the daughter of another former assistant, Dawn McGee.
“It was so cool to watch them – I’ve known them since they were born, and now they’re freshmen in high school,” said Cross. “I’m really thankful for the amazing women I had a chance to coach at Abington and to watch how they have grown up.
“It has been special, and I’ve been so lucky to be a part of all of that. That’s what sports is all about – keeping those friendships.”
The win was the third of the season after six straight losses to open the season.
“I intentionally made our nonleague schedule hard because I do have a bunch of seniors on the team,” Cross said. “I didn’t expect Kayla McAneney to go down with a torn ACL in basketball.
“She’s a big, big part of our midfield and our defensive unit, so that immediately put us on our heels. We started off against Boyertown, Conestoga – all these really good teams, and we couldn’t catch our breath.”
Four of the team’s six losses were by two goals or less.
“I was worried that it would demoralize us, but getting into our league games, especially today, I saw them put together two really good halves,” Cross said. “We had not played a complete game yet.
“Our worst loss was to West Chester Henderson (20-9), but most of the games we were right there. It was a tough way to start, but I think the girls have learned from it. They’re showing more poise on the field, which is good.”
The Flying Cardinals were led by the glittering efforts of Julie Cross (nine goals, two assist), Rachel DiFrangia (five goals, two assists) and Taylor D’Ginto (two goals, five assists). Anna Trentini added a single goal.
The Cardinals served early notice that they meant business, opening up a 10-4 halftime lead on their way to the 17-7 win..
“To be honest, even when it got up to 10 goals, I never really felt like we were ahead by that much because they were scrappy,” Cross said. “I know they’re young.
“I’ve seen a lot of their girls play – I know what they’re capable of, and they did not back down at all. There were a couple of turnovers that were key that helped us. I never, ever take Abington for granted. Mary Kate is doing a great job. They have a very good core, and they’re going to be good the next couple of years.”
For the Ghosts, Jeannie VanBuren led the way with two goals and two assists while McGee had two goals and one assist. Mikki Raymond added a pair of goals, and Rachel Morris had one goal to close out the scoring.
Upper Dublin goalie Sarah Gallagher was credited with six saves.
Abington 4 3-7
Upper Dublin 10 7-17
WISSAHICKON 13, SPRINGFIELD (MONTCO) 8
Zoe Gomez scored seven goals to lead the Trojans, converting all seven shots she took into goals. She also had two ground balls, one draw control and two caused turnovers.
Lauren Irvine added three goals, five ground balls and four draw controls. Freshman Carolyn Wilde had two goals, one ground ball and one draw control. Sophomore Shannon Stagliano contributed one goal and one assist. She also had two ground balls.
Freshman Emily Vervlied led the Trojans with five draw controls to go along with three ground balls. Perri Rabinowitz added three ground balls while goalie Julie Silverman was credited with four saves.
For the Spartans, Juli Cardamone led the offense with four goals, and Riley Greenleaf had three goals and one assist. Meg Chandler had a goal and assist to close out the scoring.
Spartan goalie Margarethe Leis was credited with nine saves.
The Trojans are 2-0 in league play (5-3 overall) while the Spartans are 0-3 in the league (2-3 overall).
“Springfield, at home, played tough, physical lacrosse,” Wissahickon coach David Schlesinger said. “But Wissahickon kept is collective cool to grind out their second SOL victory versus no defeats.”
Wissahickon 7 6-13
Upper Dublin 4 4-8
PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 12, CHELTENHAM 6
Monica Dresnin (four goals, two assists) and Kirsten Monte (five goals, one assist) both had a hand in six goals to lead the Colonials. Maddie Berman added two goals, and Morgan Nagy had a single goal to close out the scoring for the Colonials, who led 8-2 at the intermission.
Cheltenham 2 4-6
Plymouth Whitemarsh 8 4-12
UPPER MERION 16, NORRISTOWN 5
Ten players contributed goals for the Vikings, who picked up their first conference win. Krysta Zadroga, Liz Botto and Jackie Schauble each contributed a hat trick to lead the Vikings. Contributing one goal were Francesca Lindelow, Mia DiBella, Anna Derby, Anna Davis, Julia Reinert, Gabby Struckus and Katie Schauble.
The Vikings are 1-2 in conference play (4-3 overall).
CENTRAL BUCKS SOUTH 16, COUNCIL ROCK SOUTH 7
Courtney Dietzel scored five goals and also contributed a pair of assists to lead a balanced Titan attack. Tori Wigand (two goals, two assists), Sarah Poli (two goals, two assists), Corrine Kenney (two goals, one assist), Krysta Reading (one goal, two assists) and Kelly Senour (one goal, one assist) also had multi-point games for the Titans. Emily Cliggett, Devon Dietzel and Annie Danyluk each added a single goal to close out the scoring.
Kenney also had five draw controls and four caused turnovers. Freshman defender Courtney Taylor had four caused turnovers, and freshman midfielder Krysta Reading had three caused turnovers and four draw controls. South goalie Erin Putnam had eight saves.
For the Golden Hawks, Nikki Boyd had two goals and one assist, and Mollie Sheehy had a pair of goals. Becca Daly had one goal and one assist, and Meg Sheehy and Caroline McGovern each had one goal. In goal, Claire Quist was credited with seven saves.
CENTRAL BUCKS WEST 12, PENNSBURY 8
The Bucks upped their record to 2-0 in SOL play (8-1 overall). Elena Romesburg led a balanced attack with four goals while Meghan Tillger, Bryn Boylan and Amanda Gundlach each added a pair. Jacq Fitzgerald had a goal and assist, and Elle Ueland also added a goal.
West goalie Molly Naylor was credited with four saves.
“(It was) a slow start for both teams – about eight minutes passed before Elena Romesburg scored the first goal,” West coach Tara Schmucker said. “Pennsbury stayed in it the whole game, and despite West not clicking on offense and forcing several turnovers, West maintained control in the end.”
The Falcons are 1-3 in league play (3-5 overall).
Central Bucks West 6 6-12
Pennsbury 2 6-8
HATBORO-HORSHAM 20, UPPER MORELAND 4
Hatboro-Horsham's seniors certainly know how to celebrate Senior Night. All eight - Caroline Acker, Annette DeSipio, Colby Eldridge, Ally Giorno, Maria Guerra, Jane Henry, Katie McKay and Rachel Rausa - scored goals. McKay led the Hatters with four goals and four assists while Guerra had five goals and one assist. Rausa finished with two goals and two assists, and Eldridge had two goals. Acker, DeSipio, Giorno and Henry each had one goal.
Also contributing to the offense were Casey Swezey (two goals, one assist) Sydney Rausa (one goal, one assist) and Kaitlyn Wallace (one assist).
Upper Moreland coach Pam Remmey acknowledged the performance of her midfielders against a powerful Hatter squad.
“Delaney Smith had a great game, scoring two goals and playing well defensively,” Remmey said.
Veronica Baez had four draw controls and a goal. Maura O’Leary added a goal on a free position, and Melanie Wittick had three draw controls.
“Sarah Reice played well defensively and caused two forced turnovers,” Remmey said.
UM goalie Kate Taylor had 17 saves.
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