Senior Kaitlin Luzik and six teammates will play their final home game Saturday at 4:30pm when they host Cape Henlopen Delaware, the 6-time defending state champions on Ireton’s senior day.
The Bishop Ireton girls’ lacrosse team beat WCAC opponent Paul VI by a convincing 17-3 margin on Tuesday, April 28, at Fannon Field; and suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Good Counsel Falcons last night 17-16 in Olney, Maryland. The Cardinals finish their WCAC regular-season schedule 7-1 and will have the #2 seed in the conference tournament starting next week. Your redbirds are 15-2 overall right now—with one regular-season game remaining. At this point last year the team was 13-4.
The Cardinals came out hard and fast against the visiting Paul VI Panthers, scored their first goal in 27 seconds, and simply never looked back after that first quick strike. Bishop Ireton held a comfortable 11-0 lead at halftime. Key to the win was a near total dominance of draw controls. Eight different players got goals or assists: Kelly Larkin notched 3 goals, 5 assists; Kelly Mathews had 4 goals; Charlotte Sofield got 3 goals, 1 assist; Kayla Marshall had 2 goals, 2 assists; Kayla Duperrouzel had 2 goals, 1 assist; Christine Macey got 1 goal, 1 assist; and Grace Fletcher & Madison Mote each got 1 goal. Amelia Cole made 6 saves. Ireton also claimed 24 ground balls and scooped up 12 caused turnovers.
Bishop Ireton came out firing against Good Counsel and went up early 3-0, but it was a seesaw battle the whole game. The game was tied 8-8 at halftime. The Falcons scored the winning goal with 45 seconds left in the game. Ireton had a chance to tie it with mere seconds left but the shot didn’t make it in the goal—it was close! This was only the third time this season so far that the Cardinals have allowed 10 or more goals to be scored against them. This happened six times last year…and things worked out pretty good in the end for Ireton in 2014.
Seven different players for Bishop Ireton scored goals and/or made assists as follows: Mathews got 4 goals, 1 assist; Sofield had 3 goals, 1 assist; Larkin notched 3 goals, 3 assists; Duperrouzel got 2 goals, 2 assists; Kaitlin Luzik had 1 goal; Christine Macey notched 2 goals; and Marshall got 1 goal, 1 assist. Cole made 5 saves.
Ireton’s WCAC quarterfinal playoff game is set for Tuesday, May 5, 4:00 p.m., at Fannon Field versus Bishop O’Connell. This initial 2015 playoff game is just the first step for the Cardinals’ program towards its ultimate goal of another “Six Games in May.”
But wait, there’s more!
Don’t forget about SENIOR DAY and the Cardinals’ last regular-season game of the year this Saturday, May 2, 4:30 p.m., versus the tough Cape Henlopen Vikings at Fannon Field. The Vikings are the six-time defending Delaware state champions who took the Cardinals to double overtime on May 2, 2014. Ireton was able to win that hard-fought game 12-11 in Lewes, DE.
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