Huntington HS Lacrosse Team Beats Walt Whitman HS

HUNTINGTON, NY — The Huntington boys lacrosse team recently defeated South Huntington 8-1 at Blue Devil Stadium, the school district announced.

The Blue Devils beat the Wildcats 8-1, scoring five unanswered second half goals, and improved their record to 6-3.

Huntington led 3-2 at halftime before going on a second half scoring frenzy to put the game away. As of Thursday, Huntington was in fifth place out of 20 teams in Suffolk Division I.

Against Walt Whitman, Mikey Kline (13g; 19a) tallied two goals and an assist. Timmy McDonald also scored two goals in his first game back after being sidelined by an injury during the football season. Tom Girimonti (18g; 16a) scored a goal and added an assist. Anthony Annunziata (15g; 8a), Peter Breingan (9g) and Brian Hrybenko (5g; 5a) all scored goals in the game. Aidan Carrello (5g; 2a) and Colin Lennon (15g; 7a) had assists. Goalie Sammymac Arner recorded eight saves in the win and now has 78 this spring.

"Our defense played well and had a different mindset," Arner said via news release.

A noisy crowd attended the game, which played out under partly sunny skies.

Carrello had five ground balls for Huntington, while Whitman goalie Kieran Davis stopped 21 Huntington shots.

"Although it wasn’t an accurate demonstration of our game and we didn't do it in our usual dominating way; a win is a win," Annunziata said. "The defense played great as a unit and we were able to capitalize on Whitman’s mistakes. Lots of work to get done from now until the playoffs. We are taking it one day at a time. The guys are all working hard every day and I couldn’t be more proud of them."