EG Youth Lacrosse Team Wins State Championships

The East Greenwich 7th/8th grade competitive boys youth lacrosse team recently captured the RI Youth Lacrosse League state championship.

By all accounts, this team had a dream season ending up with a 13-0 record in league and non-league play. They racked up 146 goals for the season with just 21 goals scored against. The midfield unit dominated the face-offs winning 80% and the attack unit scored an incredible 90 goals. The defensive unit was very strong allowing just 1.6 goals per game, including 4 shutouts and three games where the opponent scored just 1 goal.

In the semi-finals, EG defeated Island Youth(Middletown/Jamestown/Newport) by a score of 13-1. EG then played a near flawless game in the finals against CLCF(Cranston),jumping out to a 5-0 lead in the first quarter en route to a 13-0 win. This was a great season for the 8th graders who played on lteh 2009 team where they reached the championship game before falling to an undefeated East Bay(Barrington/Bristol/Warren) team by a score of 6-3.

In non-league play, the EG team also defeated the RI state middle school champion, Moses Brown as well as old rival East Bay (who played in the Massachusetts league this year).The team recently played in the Warrior Shootout Tournament at Babson College, defeating two town teams from Massachusetts and a New Hampshire select team to earn a spot in the finals (that were canceled late Sunday afternoon due to electrical storms).

Congratulations to all the players: Tucker Alberigo, Peter DeSimone, Kyle Ellis, Sam Feinberg, Teddy Fenton, Conor Garrahy, Andrew Grady, Sam James, Brendan LIppe, Will Locke, Patrick Norton, Cam Rocke, Winston Smith, Mike Solomon, Ryan Soule, Donte Thornhill, Josh Villeneuve, Nate Waicberg, Cam Waitkun  and Tyler Williams.

The team was coached by Herb DeSimone, Jon Soule and Josh Fenton.