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Senior captain Cole Dafinee passes the ball out of the defensive zone against Falmouth Friday. |
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Lacrosse team looks to dig out of hole
By Kevin Mullaney
Banner Correspondent
Nauset’s lacrosse players will have to step up their scoring if they have playoff aspirations.
Now 0-5, the Warriors have pretty good numbers, with a total of 40 players on varsity and JV, but it’s a young team and scoring is an issue.
Tyler Norgeot and the Niezgoda brothers — Brian, Dean and Troy — each scored a goal in the Nauset Boys lacrosse team’s 13-4 loss to Falmouth Thursday in North Eastham.
“We’re struggling,” said coach Ezra Hendricks, now in his sixth year of coaching the self-funded team. “We’re doing a lot of things well, just not scoring.”
The team is led by eight captains, an unusual number that coach Hendricks said is part of the team’s theme for the year: spread responsibility.
“I’m trying to avoid kids’ passing off leadership responsibilities. It’s going well,” he said. The captains are junior Max Tringale and seniors John Dugan, Brian Niezgoda, Lyle McCutcheon-Schour, Martin Ryan, Dan Meaghan and Jamie Robinson.
Tringale is the team’s leading scorer with seven goals and four assists. Sophomore Murphy Rutledge is second with three goal and three assists. Coach Hendricks said the team needs to be scoring 10 goals a game. The defense is led by goalkeeper Tyler Marston, a sophomore, and captains Meghan and Robinson.
“We have a lot of sophomores playing a lot,” Hendricks said, calling it good news-bad news. Forty kids came out for the team, which allows full varsity and jayvee.
“Making the playoffs is always a goal,” Hendricks said, which would mean the team needs to go 8-8 from here on. “We dug ourselves a hole,” he said of the 0-5 start, “but we still have a shot.”
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Apr 24th, 2008