A Voice from the Eastern Door
The Massena varsity boys lacrosse team avenged a loss to Canton with a non-league win over Northwood Prep. Meanwhile, the varsity girls team had a three-game winning streak snapped by Northwood.
On May 6, Massena took the Northwood game 17-13 at home. Isaiah Cree led the offense with five goals. Kyran Sunday and Blake Premo each had three goals and three assists. Jack Loran netted a pair of goals with a helper. JP Chauvin had four goals. Nick Morrell scored a goal and three assists.
Three days earlier, Massena fell to hosts Canton 10-6. Sunday led Massena with two goals. Hunter Pyke, Kainen Francis-Thompson, Premo and Chauvin, who also tallied an assist, scored the other goals. Devin Jolley made seven saves. Isaac Thrasher led Canton's offense with six goals and an assist. Jacob Mattice made nine saves.
The girls team ended a three-games-in-a-week winning streak with a loss to Northwood. On May 1, Massena won the first of two games against hosts Saranac Lake 12-8. Massena worked ahead to 6-5 at the half then doubled their score in the following two stanzas, while holding their opponents to three goals. Meg Wilmshurst scored three goals. Claire Tyo scored twice with a helper. Abigail Johnson and Julia Blair each scored two goals. Blayke Gibson, Katie MacCuaig and Megan Morgan each scored once. Kyrsten Stone recorded a pair of helpers. Gisele Todd stood tall in the Massena net, denying 16 scoring attempts.
The teams met again two nights later with Massena hosting for a 10-1 final score. Massena played a shutout first half where they scored five goals. Stone had a game-high four goals and two assists. Blair scored twice and assisted one play. Gibson, Wilmshurst, Tyo and Morgan each netted singletons. MacCuaig had one assist. Todd made 13 saves.
On May 4 in Fort Covington, Massena downed Salmon River 8-6 after coming back from being down 4-3 at the half. Stone netted a game-high two goals and two assists. Johnson and Tyo each scored twice. Blair (one assist) and Gibson scored solo goals. Kayla Hinkley and Morgan each had single helpers. Todd turned aside 11 shots. On the Salmon side, Tatyana Papineau had three goals and an assist. Trysten Burns (one assist), Maya Swamp and Meg Martin each scored single goals. Dava Thompson made eight saves.
Massena's week ended with a loss to Indian River 12-10 on May 6. Johnson and Blair led Massena's offense with respective hat tricks. For Indian River, Brynne LaFave had a game-high eight goals.
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