Girls’ lacrosse: Loss to Saint Francis breaks team’s undefeated record

For the first five games of the season, the girls’ varsity lacrosse team was undefeated, but an unfortunate loss against Saint Francis 12-11 at home on March 21 ended their undefeated record.

Seniors Risha Shah and Ingrid Hong were the star attackers for the game, scoring the most goals for the team. Goalie senior Casey Williams was a crucial part of the defense, and senior Jennie Werner dominated in the midfield. 

“Even though it was disappointing to lose to [Saint Francis], I’m proud of the way we played,” Werner said. “We fought hard the entire game and played our hearts out.”

The girls were originally ahead of Saint Francis, but they fell behind in the last 20 seconds. The team was missing multiple starting attack players like sophomore Talia Clement.

“It was good for us to play a challenging team early in the season to really test our defense,” Werner said.

 As of March 28, the team’s overall record is 6-2, because the girls also lost to Palo Alto on March 26. So far the most of the Falcon’s offense has been generated by Shah, Wong, nd Werner. 

Sophomore Erin Norris believes that the conditioning and training before the games and during practices have been very helpful. The team has worked to better themselves on the field this season, which benefited them on the March 19 game against Pioneer High School. The game ended with a score of 19-4.

“We changed our defense and that helped us a lot to give … Pioneer only [four] goals,” said Norris.

Werner is looking forward to spending her last season with her team.

“Every year I get to know people I wasn’t that close too in the previous years,” Werner said. 

The team is traveling to LA during spring break, a trip that Norris is looking forward to.

“We are going to [go to] Disneyland and stay in a beach house,” Norris said. “That will be really fun.”

The team hopes to make it to league playoffs.

“We joke around and have fun, but work hard when it’s time to practice or compete.” Werner said. 

Results of games the week of March 31 could not be included due to printing deadlines.