Girls Lacrosse Team Begins Playoffs with a Win

After a tough 15-14 loss to Kettle Moraine in its final regular season game Friday, the University School girls’ lacrosse team was ready to get back to action.  The Wildcats made sure the outcome of the first round of the Wisconsin Lacrosse Federation state tournament playoffs were more positive as they defeated the Arrowhead White team 12-6 Tuesday afternoon at .

The score seesawed in the first half, but in the second, the Wildcats got ahead and then held the Warhawks scoreless to confirm the victory.

USM’s head coach Samantha Adey summed up the day, “We were a bit flat in the first half, making mental mistakes, but we turned it around in the second half, scoring a few goals and then stalling for the majority of the half to come away with the win.  We held them scoreless for the last 21 minutes of the game to seal it up." 

The Wildcats scored the game’s very first goal in the game’s first two minutes.  Lauren Schwieters put a shot into the net at 23:24. 

Arrowhead tied the score briefly at 21:35 on a goal by Katie Holowitz, but Kelly Brethauer put USM back on top with a goal just over a minute later.

Robyn Wittkopf netted another goal for Arrowhead at 20:09 to tie the score at two goals each.  The score stayed tied for while until Natalie Pompos potted one to give Arrowhead its first lead of the afternoon at 15:09. 

Schwieters’s second goal at 9:15 tied the score again.  Several minutes later Ellie Lichte gave the Warhawks another brief lead with a goal at 6:43, but Brethauer tied the score once again with another goal for USM at 4:52

Holowitz gave Arrowhead its final lead of the day at 2:42, but Schwieters and Brethauer scored goals in the last minute, and the half ended with USM in the lead, 6-5.

Brethauer’s goal at 22:25 in the second half gave the Wildcats a bit of a cushion. Holowitz gave the Warhawks hope when she scored her third goal at 21:45, but after that Arrowhead got nothing.  The Wildcats defense took over and did not allow Arrowhead a reason to look happily at the scoreboard for the rest of the afternoon. With 17 saves during the game USM goalkeeper Ivy McKee did her part to make sure the Warhawks were not going home happy.

The Wildcats added five goals to their side of the scoreboard in the game’s final 18 minutes.  Meredith Jeffers began the scoring spree with a goal at 17:42.   Schwieters added another at 13:39.  Brethauer scored two more, one at 10:28 and another at 8:30.  Claire Prewitt finished the scoring with a goal for USM at 5:21. 

The win gives USM a 7-6 record.  The Wildcats face Arrowhead Red, the Warhawks’s number one varsity team, in the 2nd round of the WLF playoffs on Friday at Arrowhead.