Garden City Girls Lacrosse Defeats South Side

The Garden City varsity girls lacrosse team defeated South Side 10-7 at their home field Tuesday afternoon. They now stand at 2-0 in Conference B1, giving South Side (2-1) their first loss of the season.

The first half of the game started out slow for Garden City. South Side was playing tougher defense and The Lady Trojans couldn't get control of the game as quickly as they did last week against Plainedge. Going into halftime 5-3, fortunately Garden City was only down by two goals.

South Side's Jackie Cifarelli had three goals in the first half, the other two were scored by Micheala Lynch and Grace Healey. Garden City's three goals were made by Jenna Fuchs, Mikaela Rix and Catherine Dickinson.

Garden City returned to the field strong, scoring four goals in the first five minutes of the second half, three of which were by Rix. Now 7-5, South Side had to step up their game if they wanted to win this one. Lynch and Cifarelli scored two more goals for South Side and at the 13:00 mark, the game was tied 7-7.

Both teams played pretty evenly for the next few minutes. Their defenses were both strong, not letting either team in easily. However, the tie score didn't last too long, as Garden City star player Caroline Tarzian scored a goal at 6:78. In the final three minutes of the game, Tarzian scored another goal and Barbara Sullivan scored her first goal of the game. They held back South Side in the minutes remaining, ending the game at 10-7.

Rix and Cifarelli both scored a team-high four points. Tarzian had three assists, and Alex Bruno had two assists. Lynch had two goals for South Side, and Emily Considine had two assists. South Side's goalkeeper, Kelly Gregerson, had an impressive 17 saves. Garden City's two goalkeepers for the game, Kelly Weis and Erin Mullin, had a combined nine saves.

"This is the best we've ever played Garden City," South Side head coach Meaghan Healey said after the game. "We play them every year and they're an excellent team. We did our best physically and mentally."

Garden City head coach Diane Chapman also commented on the game: "I wasn't happy with the first half, we weren't aggressive enough. South Side has a terrific goalie, and they made us earn our win tonight."

Garden City next plays Division April 28. South Side's next game (non-league) is against Mineola April 21. Their next league game isn't until next month.