Spirits High Despite Dedham Boys Lacrosse Defeat

The Newton North boys lacrosse team relieved a burden in the easiest of ways Wednesday afternoon.

The Tigers handed Bay State Conference-foe a 20-1 defeat, and with the victory punched their ticket to the postseason for the first time in three years. 

“We got the monkey of our back,” said Newton North head coach Bussy Adam. “We’re back in the tournament.”

Newton North improves to 9-5 on the season. Dedham, meanwhile, remains winless at 0-12.

“Well, we’re in good spirits,” said Marauders coach Chris Carucci. “The kids played hard. [Newton North] is a good team, so we were just trying to improve on the little things today.”

He added, “It’s been a challenging season for us. We haven’t gotten a win. But like I said, our spirits are up, the kids are working hard, and that’s what it’s about.”

Junior attack Johnny Fitzgerald began the Tigers’ scoring as he received a pass from Ryan Quinn and fired the ball past Marauder netminder Chris Dempsey for the 1-0 lead early in the first quarter.

At the 6:26 mark of that period, Tiger Joey Mariano netted an unassisted tally, and teammate Kevin Malloy followed 14 seconds later with a goal of his own. But Newton North was not done scoring as a mere 15 seconds ticked off the clock when Will Spiro netted a tally giving the Tigers the 4-0 advantage.

From there, Newton North cruised to the easy 20-1 victory.

The Marauders lone goal came when Steven Parker scored with about five minutes remaining in the contest.