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Red Knights Lacrosse Teams Split Regular Season Finales
Benilde-St. Margaret's baseball team was also thumped by Totino-Grace over the weekend.
The lacrosse teams closed out their regular seasons during a light weekend in local sports and now look forward to the sectional playoffs that begin this week.
Benilde-St. Margaret's Boys Lacrosse: Red Knights 11, Holy Angels 3
An 11-3 defeat of visiting non-conference rival Holy Angels on Friday night gave the defending state champion Benilde-St. Margaret's boys lacrosse team a spotless 13-0 record as it now prepares for the postseason.
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Will Hoesley capped the regular season with a team-high 44 goals, with Christian Horn scoring 26 goals and Taylor Topousis adding 22 goals this spring.
BSM holds the No. 1 seed in Section 5 and earned a first-round bye. The Red Knights will host either No. 8 East Ridge or No. 9 Minneapolis on Friday at 7 p.m.
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Benilde-St. Margaret's Girls Lacrosse: Cretin-Derham Hall 12, Red Knights 8
Cretin-Derham Hall defeated the Benilde-St. Margaret's girls lacrosse team 12-8 in the regular-season finale on Friday night.
Maddy Moore led the Red Knights with 18 pre-playoff goals, with Sara Taffe and Paige Lawlor netting 16 and 15 goals, respectively.
BSM enters the playoffs with a 6-7-1 record and claimed a No. 9 seed for the Section 5 playoffs. The Red Knights are scheduled to play eighth-seeded South Washington County at Woodbury High School on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
Benilde-St. Margaret's Baseball: Totino-Grace 12, Red Knights 1
The Benilde-St. Margaret's baseball team fell one game off the lead in the North Suburban Conference after losing 12-1 at home to Totino-Grace in a battle of then-circuit leaders on Friday night.
Robby Sutherland knocked in Jimmy Heck with BSM's lone run of the contest in the fourth inning.
By that point, the Eagles had already put eight runs on the board after a seven-run explosion in the top half of the fourth. After scoring four more times in the fifth inning, Totino-Grace closed out their hosts to end the game via the 10-run rule.
The Red Knights, 13-5 overall and 11-3 in the North Suburban, play Holy Angels at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday night at Donaldson Park in Richfield.
