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Explosive Start as Wildcats Wallop Waukesha 19-6

USM girls lacrosse team scored 15 first half goals on their way to defeating Waukesha Monday.

The University School girls’ lacrosse team won its first game of the 2011 season by topping Waukesha 19-6 Monday.

USM moved ahead quickly in the opening minutes of the game.  Sophomore Meredith Jeffers scored the Wildcats’ first goal in less than two minutes after the opening draw.  Junior Kelly Brethauer added two more goals by scoring twice in 26 seconds, and senior Lauren Schwieters scored USM’s fourth goal just 23 seconds after Brethauer’s second tally, to make it 4-0 USM before the first five minutes of the game had expired.

USM’s head coach Samantha Adey smiled as she reflected on the game, “I was thrilled with our level of play today, we dominated on ground balls and draw controls," she said. "We had 16 draw controls to their seven.”

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Waukesha finally made its first goal at 13:57 when Esther Gies put in a shot.  USM’s Victoria Edmonds answered with a goal 41 seconds later, and then Waukesha’s Stacey Bjerke made it 5-2 at 12:45.

That was as close as Waukesha would get as the Wildcats tallied nine straight goals before Waukesha again got on the scoreboard. USM got two goals from Brethauer, Schwieters and Jeffers, another goal by Edmonds and single goals by junior Ali Robinson and senior Claire Prewitt.  Freshman Addie Lerner had an assist on Prewitt’s goal.

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Waukesha tacked on a goal from Taylor Belmer with 1:01 left in the half, but Schwieters negated that effort by scoring another goal for USM just two seconds later.

At the half, USM already had 15 goals and had allowed Waukesha a mere three.

The wide lead allowed Adey to make some changes and look at the play of some of her newer players. “We were able to rotate a number of people into the game and our newer players really stepped up today,” Adey said.

Three of the newer Wildcats scored in the second half. Junior Blake Gillespie, freshmen Brooke Hopkins and Erika Ballentine joined Schwieters in scoring on second half shots.  Waukesha was able to get three goals, two by Sierra Godfrey and one by Taylor Davis.

Adey looked to the immediate future as she summed up Monday’s results, “This was a great way to start a busy week of lacrosse with Arrowhead White tomorrow and Brookfield on Thursday.”

USM plays the Brookfield Co-op Thursday in a game scheduled for 5 p.m.

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