LACROSSE: St. Francis Edges Palo Alto

Behind two late scores, the St. Francis High-Mountain View girls lacrosse team finally put a little blemish on the once spotless Palo Alto High league record.

In an evenly played Santa Clara Valley League matchup held at St. Francis High, the Lancers held off Paly 9-8 Thursday evening in Mt. View.

St. Francis avenged an earlier season loss to Paly on March 17th--Palo Alto won that meeting 7-6 in Palo Alto--taking a 7-5 advantage into the halftime intermission.

The game's pace slowed down in a big way in the second half. Palo Alto bogged down the St. Francis attack and rattled off a string of goals of its own to regain the lead.

Ahead by one with a little over seven minutes to play, a yellow card was issued against the Vikings changing the complexion of the league bout.

St. Francis took advantage of the opportunity, scoring two goals in just over a minute to take a 9-8 lead on the man advantage.

Jacqueline Jordan led the way for the host Lancers with four goals. Taylor Kotas finished with a hat trick in the win.

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    Girls’ Lacrosse Results
Date of Competition 4/7/11
 
Palo Alto High School
League game
 
7          2   --   9    St. Francis
5          3   --   8    Palo Alto
 
SF:  Jacqueline Jordan 4, Taylor Kotas 3, Haley Libuit (Veronica Boyd), Maile Jones (Beth Ruder)
PA:  Kimmie Flather 2 (Layla Memar), Charlotte Biffar 2, Leigh Dairaghi (Charlotte Biffar), Julia Poppy (Gracie Cain),Vivienne La (Kimmie Flather), Kristen Destefano
 
SF Record: 5-1-0 (6-2-0)
PA Record: 5-1-0 (5-6-0)