N.B.: Today marks the 7,500th entry on this blog. We’ve been posting, on average, once a day here in this space since September 2006, and we appreciate your following us through this wild journey in field hockey, lacrosse, and various and sundry women’s sports stories.
We’re starting to see some of our Top 10 finish their seasons, including our No. 1, Lutherville Maryvale Prep (Md.). More teams are going to be finishing off before Memorial Day, and that should make this picture somewhat clearer.
However, we did see something I don’t think has ever happened since we started doing lacrosse Top 10s — Concord-Carlisle (Mass.), facing a week with four games, lost three of them. I can’t blame the young women for this; the clustering of four games in one week is somewhat unusual and, in many state governing bodies of sport, is not allowed.
Still, the Patriots should have enough bona fides to make a title run in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1. Lutherville Maryvale Prep (Md.) 19-0
Season complete: Won the IAAM Class A final with a 10-5 win over Owings Mills McDonogh (Md.)
2. Manchester (Md.) Valley 14-0
The Mustangs were to play Parkton Hereford (Md.) yesterday in the MPSSAA Class 2A North 1 final
3. Darien (Conn.) 14-0
The Blue Wave squeaked by a good Nyack (N.Y.) side 11-10 last week; they travel to Ridgefield (Conn.) on Thursday in what could be a preview of the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Council tournament final
4. South Huntington St. Anthony’s (N.Y.) 13-1
The Friars finish their regular season this week with a home game against Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.)
5. Philadelphia Penn Charter (Pa.) 22-2
The Quakers finish their regular season today against Fort Washington Germantown Academy (Pa.)
6. Sayville (N.Y.) 14-0
The Golden Flash host Miller Place (N.Y.) today and make the trek to Mattituck-Southold (N.Y.) on Thursday to finish the regular season
7. Owings Mills McDonogh (Md.) 13-4
Season complete: The Eagles threw a third-quarter scare into Maryvale Prep before pulling away in the final term of the IAAM Class A final
8. Olney Good Counsel (Md.) 17-2
The Falcons competed yesterday afternoon against Chantilly Paul VI (Va.) for the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference title
9. Newtown Square Episcopal Academy (Pa.) 14-4
The Churchwomen finish their league campaign at Rosemont Agnes Irwin (Pa.); the PAISAA tournament should be absolutely bonkers this year
10. Cumming West Forsyth (Ga.) 21-0
The Wolverines will take on Suwanee Lambert (Ga.) in the GHSA Division 3 final this Friday
Who’s out: Concord-Carlisle (Mass.). 17-14 loss to Hingham (Mass.), 9-8 loss to Westford (Mass.) Academy and 8-7 loss to Reading (Mass.) Memorial
And bear in mind: Atherton Sacred Heart Prep (Calif.) 17-0, Highlands Ranch Valor Christian (Colo.) 13-2, Greenwich Sacred Heart (Conn.) 9-5, Delray American Heritage (Fla.) 20-2 Orlando Lake Highland Prep (Fla.) 21-2, Milton (Ga.) 18-2, Towson Notre Dame Prep (Md.) 10-6, Andover Phillips Academy (Mass.) 14-0, Moorestown (N.J.) 10-2, Garden City (N.Y.) 14-2, Northport (N.Y.) 12-2, Penfield (N.Y.) Central 10-3, Tredyffrin Conestoga (Pa.) 17-1, Radnor Archbishop Carroll (Pa.) 16-3, Villanova Academy of Notre Dame de Namur (Pa.) 14-6, Rosemont Agnes Irwin (Pa.) 11-6, Charlottesville St. Anne’s Belfield (Va.) 143-5, Alexandria St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes (Md.) 22-1