2012 Girls D-II Champions Timpanogos Timberwolves

The Timpanogos Timberwovles beat the Viewmont Vikings in the 2012 Girls D-II Championship at Brighton High School on Saturday. The Timberwolves trailed for the majority of the game but came back in the second half, winning 9-8.

Timpanogos scored first at the 23:12 mark. Viewmont answered right back to tie the game. Timpanogos took a short lead on a goal by Eliza Handley but Viewmont scored a minute later when Maddie Medeiros scored with an assist by Brittany Harris. Viewmont used the goal to spark a three goal run including two from Addie Acord. Both times Acord took the ball from the middle of the field and took it straight to goal. Timpanogos pulled one back when Briana Arnold scored on a free position goal. Both teams got good looks but were unable to score, closing the half at 5-3 in favor of the Vikings.

Viewmont scored at the 23:14 mark in the second half when Acord again found the back of the net. Both teams continued to run their offensive sets effectively which led to a Timpanogos goal by Madison Border on a free position goal. Both teams traded goals twice making the score 8-6 for Viewmont with 11:18 remaining in the game. Read More

Mountain Crest Players Celebrate After A Goal

In a grueling battle for the final championship spot, the Mountain Crest Mustangs overcame the Spanish Fork Warriors Wednesday at Juan Diego High School in Draper, winning 10-8.

Right from the start it was easy to see how much each of these teams wanted to win. Both offense and defense seemed fairly evenly matched. Possession of the ball moved back and forth from team to team without too much action on offense until the 8:30 mark. Mountain Crest Midfielder Taylon Niederhauser intercepted a low pass off a Warrior clear. After bobbling the ball for a moment, Niederhauser gained control and quickly shot and scored. Spanish Fork was quick to answer back as midfielder Justin Ward scored an unassisted goal that bounced top shelf. Both teams scored again in the first leaving the game tied at two.

Early in the second, Mountain Crest began to show that this was their quarter. They held possession of the ball and within the first two minutes Niederhauser burned his defender on the edge of the box, putting the ball in the goal left-handed. No more than one minute later the ball was in Niederhauser’s hands again in the same spot. Using the same move, Niederhauser was able to score left-handed again. Read More

Herriman Attackmen Dillon Meyer Goes to Goal

The Waterford Ravens took on the Herriman Mustangs Wednesday night at Juan Diego High School in Draper. The Ravens overtook the Mustangs, winning 7-5.

Coming out of the gates, both teams demonstrated excellent defense. Ground balls were forced and offense lost possession as the ball moved up and down the field with few shots on goal. At least three sticks were knocked clean out of the hands of their owners in the first quarter. Finally, with 5:01 on the clock, Waterford Midfielder David Lewis scored, assisted by attackmen Matthew West after picking up an excellent rebound. Read More

For Immediate Release – Westminster Lacrosse

COLORADO SPRINGS – The Westminster College women’s lacrosse team had five players named a WCLA All-American for their performance during the 2012 season, the national office announced today. The five All-Americans matched Oakland for the most of any team.

Chelsea Farrell and Carson Chambers were named First Team All-Americans while Kaicee Beal, Sage Johnson and Alexa Ferdig were each named to the Second Team. Farrell and Beal were named at attack and Johnson was named at midfield. Chambers and Ferdig were honored at defense.  Farrell and Johnson received All-American recognition for the second straight year which makes them the first two-time All-Americans in school history. Read More

Editors Note: Donations were taken at the games at Park City at Juan Diego last night and will be taken at the games at Juan Diego tonight. Thanks to Laurie Maddox submitting this story.

The Warrior 2 Warrior project is a new service venture impacting the lacrosse community here in Utah. Tommy Maddox, President of the Juan Diego Catholic High School Patriot Club and varsity lacrosse player, and his mother Laurie, helped create the Warrior 2 Warrior project. As a junior, Tommy’s school of choice right now is West Point and he wants to join the armed services. His brother is currently a deployed marine so this project is particularly close to Tommy. Read More

For Immediate Release – BYU Lacrosse

The BYU Men’s Lacrosse team defeated the Chapman Panthers 15-12 Tuesday afternoon in Greenville, S.C. The Cougars advance to the Final Four where they will face Colorado State University Thursday night.

The meeting between the Cougars and Panthers marked the second this season. BYU defeated Chapman 12-11 in February when they overcame a seven point deficit to tie the game and then win in double overtime. Read More

Bingham v. Alta Girls Semifinals

The Alta Hawks girls lacrosse team has been a lacrosse juggernaut not used to losing games.  In fact, not one girl on the Alta team had lost a game in their high school careers until this year.  If Alta wanted to defend their title, they would have to get past the Bingham Miners whose only season losses in the past 2 years have come at the hands of Alta

The Miners played the Alta in the second semifinal game of the night. Alta scored first with a goal by Shayna Hunt assisted by Malia Stephens. Bingham answered back with a free position goal by Olivia Winters. Alta came back with a crease roll goal by Sarah Linford to put them ahead 2-1. Bingham then went on a 4 goal run with another goal by Olivia Winters and goals by Cierra Peterson, Morgan Judd, and Brooke Tate. Alta scored on a free position by Melia Stephens, but Bingham answered right back with a goal by Morgan Judd who had a relentless attack on a crease roll. Read More

Park City Goalie Ashley Peabody

The Park City girls lacrosse team had only lost 3 games this year. One of those losses came back on March 13, a 13-7 loss to the Jordan Beetdiggers. Park City knew if they wanted to make it to the state championship game, they would have to put together a better game than the one early in the season.

The game started out with both teams getting quality possessions and quality shots, but Jordan Goalie Sasha McKee and Park City Goalie Ashley Peabody came up with big saves. Park City finally broke through with the game’s first score on a Sierra Schlag goal at the 20:45 mark.  Jordan quickly answered back with a goal by Haley Twede on a free position.  Park City scored next on a goal by Alex Miele assisted by Sam Meyer, but Jordan once again answered with a free position goal by Chersten Ostler and a transition goal by Hannah Rodgers assisted by Sarah Anderson to take a 3-2 lead.

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