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Dominating from start to finish, the Rockbridge County High School girls lacrosse team cruised to a 20-3 home win over Jefferson Forest in the Region 4D quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon in Lexington.
Winning their 12th consecutive game, the top-seeded Wildcats (13-1) raced to a 3-0 lead just over a minute into the game and never looked back, using their speed and athleticism to take a 10-1 lead by the end of the first quarter. Once the Wildcats went up 11-1 early in the second quarter, the teams played with a running clock for the rest of the game due to the 10-goal lead. At halftime, RC led 15-1.
Madison Weaver made nine saves for the eighth-seeded Cavaliers (4-10), helping the visitors limit the Wildcats to five goals in the second half.
Ruby Goodhart and Halina Homiak led RC with four goals each, while Nala Shearer and Maddie Dahl each scored three goals. Contributing two goals each were Josie Caldwell, Lola Mulitalo and Anna Nye.
Shearer and Mulitalo led the Wildcats with four assists each. In the first quarter, Shearer, a senior attacker, dished out her 100th career assist and recorded her 200th career point.
Homiak had three assists, while Nye dished out two.
Nye led RC with nine draw controls and five caused turnovers, while Dahl won eight draw controls. Nye and Tadara Cooper each collected three ground balls.
Dahl and Nye led RC with nine draw controls each, and Nye paced the Wildcats with three caused turnovers.
Emily Humphreys played the first half in goal for the Wildcats, collecting three ground balls. Alyssa Hunter replaced her in the second half and made four saves.
Scoring one goal each for JF were Emily Bobbitt, Bailey English and Avery Mahland.
The game was similar to the regular-season meeting between the two teams on April 17 in Lexington, when the Wildcats won 19-2.
In the Region 4D semifinals, the Wildcats will play host to E.C. Glass on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
For the full stories on this week’s action, with photos from Saturday’s game, please see our May 22 newspaper.
