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Ladue Girl's Lacrosse Sits Atop Division, Undefeated
With a barn-burner of a game, Ladue Girls' Varsity Lacrosse beats arch-rival MICDS to remain undefeated This Season.
Crash, crash, crash. An auto accident? No, just some of the player communication heard during Saturday’s battle for the bragging rights on Warson Road. After years of coming up short, Ladue topped MICDS 6-5 in a well attended lacrosse match on their home field at Ladue Middle School.
MICDS is a perennial favorite drawing girl athletes from all over the metro St Louis area. But this year it was upstart Ladue and a burgeoning girls lacrosse program that's been gaining attention.
Scoring goals for Ladue were Carter Newton (2), Parker Harrington (1), Elena Gresick (1), Hannah Mastorakos (1) and Paige Mastorakos (1). Becca Langsam was the winning goalie.
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Scoring for MICDS were Hannah Akre (2), Allison Weisenfels (2) and Katherine Stone (1). Claire Herzog was in goal for MICDS.
Ladue has it’s share of standout players. Six of the point leaders in the independent league are Ladue girls. The team has outscored everyone by a wide margin with 102 goals accumulated so far this season. “It looks great for us but I don’t think that every team has kept up with their numbers” said Ladue head coach Alison Reisner.
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"It was awesome that fifty-seven girls came to try out this year" said Reisner. Ladue took the opportunity to field a "C" team in addition to Varsity and Junior Varsity. Interest in lacrosse has been growing for both men and women all over the nation. For the last ten years, growth in collegiate lacrosse has topped five percent with some year-over-year growth topping 15 percent according to US Lacrosse the governing body of lacrosse.
St. Louis is part of the growth, The established programs in the local high schools include John Burroughs School, St Joseph Academy, and MICDS, all of which are near the top every season.
Ladue is the remaining unbeaten team across the leagues in girls Lacrosse and have a full head of steam for the championship, a goal visualized by assistant coach Bob Panke, “What you witnessed today is the culmination of eighteen months of hard work and effort,” speaking of Saturday’s victory.
The next game for Ladue is vs. Hazelwood Central today, 4:00 p.m. at Ladue Middle School. The season continues until mid-May.