RECAP: Women’s Lacrosse Travels to Seattle for a Doubleheader
The Jesuit women’s lacrosse team traveled up to Mercer Island, Seattle this past Friday to take on two competitive Washington teams.
“I am very proud of our performance. It is not easy to travel and play two games back-to-back against the best competition in Seattle. We battled really hard in both games,” Jesuit coach Lauren Lakey said.
The Crusaders first took on Seattle Prep at noon Saturday and came out with a 11-6 win. Seattle Prep’s entire team wasn’t able to make it to the game, so Seattle Prep’s coach handpicked players from Issaquah High School, which made it a tougher game than it was supposed to be previously.
Seattle Prep’s head coach Katie Brodsky is a grad and ex player at Arizona State University and previously played and coached at Mercer Island High School, who the Crusaders took on right after.
The Crusaders have a player of the game for every game which they call “brought down the hammer.” Against Seattle Prep, freshman Izzy Tamerlano brought down the hammer with 4 goals.
“Some specific things that went for our team in the Seattle Prep game were talking on defense and running our offense well,” Tamerlano stated. “A lot of the goals that we scored were from finding cutters which shows we did great job of feeding our teammates inside the 8 meter.”
Right after game, Jesuit came out with lots of energy against #1 ranked team in Washington, Mercer Island. The Crusaders took control with a 7-3 lead going into the second half. Junior Quinny Handley had 4 goals and junior Gigi Abernethy had 2 goals for the Crusaders. The game ended with a tough 10-13 loss.
Despite the loss, Odessa Knight felt their defense came to play.
“Our defense has been stronger recently. We have been implementing the idea of not being as focused on the girl we are guarding, but more the girl with the ball,” Knight commented. “We also have been playing a lot more aggressively.”
Jesuit was heavily prepared to play against the backer defense Mercer Island had and the Crusader’s attack was slowly able to pick apart their defense. Jesuit limited the amount of forced feeds inside and moved the ball really well through the midfield.
“I think we played solid in all areas during the game,” Knight added. “We left the game with a lot of confidence for the future. We know we can play with anyone.”
“We were competing back and forth pretty much the whole game,” Lakey said. “We ran out of gas at the very end and I believe that is due to the hot weather and tough competition. Overall, we proved that we can hang with the best of them in Washington.”
The Crusaders left the weekend 1-1 (10-2 overall). While they prepare for a run at state, they are looking to take a big win at Tigard on Wednesday.
