Crestwood Girls Lacrosse Roundup Lady Comets pocket third straight district lacrosse title

Isabella Caporuscio scored all seven of her goals in the first half, and Crestwood held off Abington Heights 12-8 Monday to claim its third consecutive District 2 Class 2A girls’ lacrosse championship. Playing in front of their home crowd, the host Lady Comets used a late first-half run to gain control, then turned up the defensive pressure to keep Abington Heights from coming back.

With the win, Crestwood improves to 19-2, and moves on to the PIAA playoffs to face the fourth-place team from District 1 on June 6. Abington Heights finished its season with a 15-2 mark, with both losses coming to Crestwood.

Caly Yankow and Emily Bartell helped Abington Heights gain the early lead, as Yankow scored the opening goal with 23:34 on the clock. Bartell answered a goal from Caporuscio for a 2-1 lead a minute later.

Yankow scored her second unassisted goal for a 3-2 lead at 13:43, but Crestwood’s Hannah Ziegler tied the game again nine seconds later. Again, Bartell scored for Abington Heights for a 4-3 lead, only to see Caporuscio score with 10:57 left to lock the two teams again. Yankow scored her third goal of the half for Abington Heights’ final lead at 5-4.

Crestwood picked up its offense from there. Caporuscio’s fourth goal with 7:47 to play in the first half tied the game for a final time at 5-5. From there, Crestwood tacked on four more goals to take a 9-5 lead to intermission. Three of those goals came from Caporuscio, and the fourth came from Lucy Malia. Kennedie Huber assisted on three of those first-half goals and Julia Glowacki had two, while Crestwood goalie Morgan Koons made four of her seven saves during that key sequence to close the half. In the second half, Abington Heights kept battling as Bartell scored her third goal 57 seconds into it to cut the deficit to 9-6. Crestwood scored with Ziegler, and Abington Heights’ Bella DeRiggi scored to close within 10-7.

With Abington Heights working defensively to slow Caporuscio, freshman Jordan Andrews scored with 12:57 left in the game, and teammate Aubrey Macri fired one in from in front for a 12-7 lead. Bartell finished the scoring for Abington Heights at 7:02, and from there, Crestwood held the second seed scoreless as the championship celebration began.

Abington Heights goalie Ava Davis finished with eight saves.

Semifinals

Crestwood 14, Wyoming Area 7Caporuscio scored six goals and assisted on three others in Crestwood’s semifinal win over Wyoming Area last Thursday.

Glowacki, Grace Pasternick and Macri all scored two goals for the Lady Comets, and Glowacki notched a pair of assists. Ziegler pitched in with a goal and an assist, Kate Gallagher scored a goal, and Huber dished out three assists to round out the offense.

Koons registered six goalie saves for Crestwood.

Sofia Sabatini paced Wyoming Area with four goals and an assist. Addison Byers, Hallie Kranson and Julia Gonzales all scored goals for the Warriors, and Erica Gillian made eight saves in goal.