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Final Four Action
Division I
Lady Aves Claim First
State Title, Finish Season Unbeaten!
Defense Snuffs Out UA
Comback Attempt.
Sycamore 9 Upper Arlington
7
Defense
wins Championships! Defense certainly helped the Sycamore Lady Aves to
their first State Championship and preserved their undefeated 20-0
season. The two best teams in the state of Ohio slugged it out in
the early going with Sycamore jumping to a 4-0 lead. The Bears are
a team with three state titles and were not going to go home early.
They battled back to tie the game 4-4 with half time approaching,
but a late Sycamore goal gave the Aves a slim 5-4 halftime lead.
The Green and Gold started the second half much like the first extending
their lead to 9-4. Again the Bears roared back, to get within 2
goals at 9-7. The Sycamore defense stiffened in the late stages
and that would be the final score.
Sycamore: Nesbitt 4g,
Bell 2g, Lohse 2g, McLouth 1g, Yenger 8 saves
UA: Conway 2g, Brooker 1g,
Junk 1g, Everett 1g, Narwicz 1g, Kuznik 1g, Fisher 9 saves
Division II
Eagles Weather the Storm
and Take Down Silver Knights
Balanced Scoring and Late
Surge Preserve Win
New Albany 7 Summit
Country Day 5
The
New Albany Eagles not only battled the Summit Silver Knights, but had to
battle Mother Nature as well. The Eagles held a 4-2 halftime lead,
but the Silver Knights scored first in the second half to cut the margin
to one. The Eagles got an insurance goal to make the score 5-3 and
seemed to have the momentum when the skies opened and force a rain delay
of more than an hour. New Albany came off the extended break still
focused. They added two more goals while holding Summit to just 2 and
claim their first State Championship by a score of 7-5. Summit
goalkeeper Murphy Drury was the main reason for the close score,
recording 21 saves in the game.
New Albany: Hamilton
2g, Ferguson 2g, Ebeling 2g, Abruzino 1g, Stephan 5 saves
Summit: K. Farmer 2g, Edwards
2g, S. Farmer 1g, Drury 21 saves
Club Division
Lady Minutemen Fire Too
Many Weapons and Bring Down Undefeated Eagles
Rohrich's 7 goals Too Many
for Watterson in Shootout
Revere 14 Watterson 11
The
number 34 may be banned at Watterson. That's the number of Revere
offensive machine Kelly Rohrich. She had 7 goals and 2 assists in
the first ever Club Division State Championship in leading Revere to a
14-11 shootout win over the Watterson Lady Eagles. The game got
off to a quick start with Revere taking a 3-0 lead. The Eagles
settled down and adapted to Revere's "run and gun" style, and Jena Wade
and Clare Tropper each scored goals to bring BW back to within one goal
at 3-2. Rohrich, teammates Allie Lannon and Isabel Simon kept the
Revere offense in high gear and they moved to a 7-4 halftime lead.
Watterson kept fighting at one point closing to 9-7, and 10-9 on a goal
by Kaitlin Flaherty but each time it got close Revere and Rohrich
would answer. Final 14-11.
Revere: Rohrich 7g, 2a,
Simon 3g, Lannon 3g, Stalter 1g, Murphy 1a, Dorner 6 saves
Watterson: Topper 2g,
Flaherty 2g, McCormick 2g, Wade 1g 1a, Goins 1g, Koehler 1g, Diodore 1g,
Vradenburg 1g, Ramierez 5 saves
Semi Finals
Division I
Golden Bears Stay
Hot...Torch Blazers 17-4
The
Golden Bears scored early and scored often, as their senior leadership
proved to be too tough for the young Hathaway Brown Blazers.
Seniors Erika Brooker (3g, 3a) and Molly Everett (3g) paced the
Bears, but there was plenty of scoring to go around as ten bears found
the net. The Bears Katie Fisher was as solid as ever between the
pipes recording 12 saves. Maggie McGreevy and her defensive pals held up
their end of the field as well.
UA: Brooker 3g 3a,
Everett 3g, Baker 2g 2a, Godard 2g, Conway 1g 1a, Narwicz, 1g, 1a,
Blosser 1g, Mason 1g,
Junk 2g, Toothman 1g 1a, Oberlin 1a, Fisher 13 saves
HB: Hill 3g, Ballard 1g,
Morgan 9 saves
#1 Aves Stay Unbeaten, Fly
Into Finals With 14-2 Win
After being close for the last five years, the Lady Aves are in the
Finals, and they left no doubt why they have been ranked #1. The
Aves soared past a young and talented Chagrin Falls team, that had
pulled off the upset of the tournament in beating defending State
Champion Cleveland Heights in the regional finals. Sycamore just
had too many weapons. Senior Allison Bell lead the Aves with 6
goals and 1 assist, while sophomore Lily Ricci has 3 goals. The Aves
looked as sharp as they have all season, pin point passing gave them 6
assists on the night, including 4 by junior Becca McLouth. If defense
wins championships the Aves certainly have a good one, lead by
keeper Brett Yenger and senior Rosie Griffen. It's the rematch
Ohio lacrosse fans have been waiting for Sycamore vs UA for all the
gold.....
Syc: Bell 6g, 1a,
McLouth 4a, Ricci 3g, Hunter 2g, 1a, Lohse 2g, Nesbitt 1g Yenger 8
saves
CF: Montello 1g, Takacs
1g, Burello 9 saves
Division II
Second Half Carries Eagles
to Title Game...New Albany 12 St. Ursula Academy 8
The St. Ursula Arrows trailed early, but battled back to tie the
score at 6-6 by halftime, but the New Albany Eagles tightened up the
defense and went on a scoring binge in the second half to gain a 12-8
victory and a trip to the Division II Final. NA relied on the two
big guns that lead them all season, junior Shelby Passias (4g) and
freshman Molly Hamilton (3g). Keeper Kate Stephan, back in the
tournament line up after missing most of the regular season with an
injury was solid between the pipes with 8 saves. The Arrows were
lead by sophomore Hillary Lorton with 3 goals.
NA: Passias 4g,
Hamilton 3g, Ebling 2g, Ferguson 1g, Abrozino 1g, Heandez 1g, Stephan 8
saves
SUA: Hi Lorton 3g, Cassavar
2g, Black 1g, Joseph 1g, Ho Lorton 1g, Comer 8 saves
Silver Knights Stay Hot,
Shoot Down the Blue Streaks 15-11
Perhaps the hottest team in the 2007 OSLA Tournament is the Summit
Country Day Silver Knights. After knocking off #1 Lakota in the
regional finals, Summit turn in a solid performance in the State
Semi-finals in defeating Beaumont 15-11. Junior Alex Thurner
lead the Knights high powered offense with 5 goals, and senior Lauren
Jantsch and freshman Lizzy Edwards each had 3 goals. The real key
to Summit's win may have been keeper Murphy Drury who had 14 saves,
including some key stops when it looked like the Blue Streaks might make
a run. Junior Mackenzie Kilfoyle lead Beaumont's balanced scoring
with 3 goals. The Knights will meet New Albany in the Finals.
SCD: Thurner 5g, Edwards 3g,
Jantsch 3g, Farmer 2g, Jack 1g, Ward 1g Drury 14 saves
Beau: Kilfoyle 3g, Coughlin
2g, Pokryfki 1g, Drenik, 1g, Soeder 1g, Garofoli 1g, McKenna 1g, DiNardo
1g
Mettler 3 saves, Toth 7 saves
Watterson Eagles Stay
Unbeaten, Edge Anderson For Berth in Finals
Revere Tops Lake Catholic
to Gain Spot in CLub Finals
The
Watterson Lady Eagles (2) remained unbeaten and earned the first berth
in the Club Division Finals on Saturday. The Eagles edged the
Anderson Lady Orange (1) 15-13 in an offensive fireworks display at
Mason.
The Revere
Lady Minutemen traveled to Lake Catholic and played their way into the
State Finals with a 15-6 win over the Cougars.
Watterson
and Revere will play at 11:00 am Saturday at Upper Arlington
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