5/18 Andover: 9 Dexter Southfield: 8
5/19 Andover: 11 Sacred Heart Greenwich: 17
5/22 Andover: 17 Brooks: 16
On Saturday Girls Lacrosse played #5 Dexter Southfield in the Prep Cup Quarterfinals, winning by one goal. The team then lost against #1 Sacred Heart Greenwich in the Prep Cup Semifinals. On Wednesday, Girls Lacrosse beat Brooks in a close game.
In Saturday’s game, the team found strength in its camaraderie and spirit, despite being down scorewise. Gracynn Hartley ’27 highlighted the team’s supportive culture.
Hartley said “The strength of our team and the game is that no matter what situation, we’re always staying hyped. Especially on the sidelines and everything and throughout the game. Everyone’s always just hyped up and we’re all hyping each other up no matter what’s going on. If someone’s having a down game, there’s always someone to lift them up, and everyone’s just always there for each other. It’s a good team dynamic.”
Despite the loss, the team brought energy to the game on Saturday at Dexter Southfield School. Dylan Siegel ’26 highlighted the team’s high energy throughout the game.
Siegel said “The atmosphere was really great, and there was a lot of energy, and everybody was just supporting everybody else. And it was a lot of fun to be at the game because our energy just made everyone really excited to be there, and even though we lost we were all in good spirits throughout the game.”
Lola Aguirre ’26 shared that leading up to Wednesday’s game against Brooks, the team worked to utilize the whole field and every player.
Aguirre said “Leading up to the game we worked on playing as a team. It is really important for us to play together and use the entire field, so we worked a lot on that, especially going into this game. We knew it would be a tough matchup, so we had to really come together. We also worked on set plays which helped us to have more of a plan in some situations in the game.”
Aguirre emphasized Co-Captain Lauren Herlihy ’25 for her impressive performance. Not only did she create scoring opportunities for other players, she scored the goal that tied the team with Brooks after being behind for most of the game.
Aguirre said “Lauren had a great game, she was super tough on offense. She created a lot of great plays where we were able to score goals and she ended up scoring the goal that tied us with Brooks since we were losing for a while. She really put us in [a] position to be able to pull away in the end and take the win.”
Wednesday’s game featured temperatures close to 90 degrees, which was far hotter weather than they had previously played in. Aguirre shared that the heat was a challenge, but the team was able to overcome it, staying close to Brooks the whole game.
Aguirre said, “Overall the game went really well. It was a super competitive game and the whole time we were neck and neck with the other team. It was a super hot day, almost 90 degrees and sunny the entire time. We haven’t practiced in weather at all close to as hot as it was today so the heat was definitely a challenge but we were able to work through it really well.”
Girls Lacrosse will play against Phillips Exeter Academy at home on Friday.
