No matter what happened on Thursday night, the ConVal girls’ lacrosse season was ending. With another tough, backloaded Division II schedule handing them a six-game losing streak that put the Cougars out of the playoffs, ConVal’s senior night game.
It’s halfway through May, but as usual, the ConVal girls’ lacrosse team is just getting going. While other teams around the state have played as many as 12 games, the Cougars’ 15-2 win over Alvirne was only their fifth game of the season, and it.
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Published: 5/24/2021 12:49:07 PM
The NHIAA spring season enters the final stage this week with the first few postseason competitions slated and the remainder of the tournament brackets announced and ready to start Monday.
SOFTBALL
Mascenic, Conant set for opening round matchup
The Orioles and Vikings will square off for a fifth time this season on Monday, as the NHIAA’s random draw places the two rivals together for a Round One game to open play in Division III, Region Two.
Mascenic is 4-0 against Conant this spring.
The winner of Monday’s game will play at Bishop Brady in the next round – a tough draw, as the Vikings found out Friday when they traveled to Concord and lost to the Green Giants 16-8 for just their second loss of the season.
BOYS’ LACROSSEThe ConVal boys’ lacrosse team lost a pair of games last week. After a nice win against Milford Tuesday, the Cougars dropped the road rematch Thursday, 6-4.“It was a team loss,” said head coach Terrence McNamara. “At every position other.
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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.