Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 5/3/2021 1:43:27 PM
Change the outcome of just one or two possessions, and the ConVal girls’ lacrosse team would have pulled off the win over Lebanon Saturday. But the Cougars just let too many little things pile up, and the Raiders won in overtime, 9-8.
Derek Sorbello’s Cougars have just 10 players with varsity experience; the rest are sophomores or freshman who never took the field before last week, or are new to the sport entirely. Couple that with ConVal’s perennial preseason limitations – snow and rain aren’t kind to their fields, which cuts down on practice time – and it says lot about the Cougars that they were even in a game this early in the year, let alone in position to win one. Nonetheless, mental mistakes were the key to ConVal’s downfall Saturday morning.