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Lady Skippers head into vacation week on bad note

Date last updated 7:32 am May 1st, 2008

Cohasset - The Cohasset High girls lacrosse team went 1-2 over the last week with a 19-10 win against Fairhaven, Friday, April11, and losses to Duxbury (22-3, Thursday, April 10) and Norwell (17-1, Wednesday, April 16).
The Skippers are now 3-2 overall, 1-1 in the South Shore Legaue.
“I have never felt so good about an ugly loss as I did in Duxbury, and I have never been so disappointed with a wide-margin win as with these two games,” Cohasset head coach Chuck Jaffe said through e-mail Sunday afternoon. “This team needs to find its identity, which is hard when you are playing feast-or-famine games where the opponents are either very weak or very strong. Regardless of the opponent, we need to come out and play at our top level, and we certainly haven't done that yet.”
Cohasset’s struggles continued against Norwell.
“We basically played defense all night,” Jaffe said “And while our effort was solid, you simply can't give a team like Norwell that many possessions and expect to compete with them. Our inability to control draws and to settle the ball on offense were real issues; but we also will be a different team by the time we see Norwell again at the end of the season. We have a lot of room for improvement.”
Thursday, the Skippers traveled to Duxbury to play the defending Division 2 State champions. After tying the game 1-1 on a Kaci Kucinski free-position shot, Duxbury ran off the next 10 goals. Caitlin Mahoney scored two of the next three goals in the game, both on free-position shots, but 12-3 was as close as Cohasset ever got, as Duxbury ran off to a 22-3 win.
Amanda Masotta played a particularly strong game in the net. According to Jaffe “which might be a surprise given how many goals she surrendered, but she saw more rubber than a tourist in a tire factory and things would have been much worse had she not come up with several point-blank saves.”
Despite losing by 19, the Skippers came through this game with their head up, having worked hard to see a lot of kids play at that level, trying a lot of new and different things and being willing to pay for mistakes in order to come away from the game smarter.
“The effort level was outstanding throughout, despite the score,” Jaffe said.
Friday Cohasset played a brand new Fairhaven team. After rushing out to a three-goal lead, Cohasset gave up an end-to-end run that made the score 3-1. The same kind of defensive lapse happened again to make the score 5-2, and two more poor defensive plays made the score 6-4.
“That was particularly alarming because the same Fairhaven squad had been badly outmatched against Cohasset's junior varsity team in a scrimmage in late March,” Jaffe said.
The host Skippers bounced back to make the score 11-5 at the half, and after trading goals in the first minute of the second stanza, broke free for four goals to salt the game away. From there, the two teams traded goals to a 19-10 final.
Kelsey Erler, Kayla Farren, Lindsay Hill and Amy Meikleham each scored three goals in the game, with Hill adding two assists and Erler one. Caitlin Mahoney scored two more goals, giving her the team lead with seven scores through four games.
Hannah Burgess added a goal and an assist. Isabelle Franklin, Kaci Kucinski, Chelsea Silvia and Olivia Murphy added solo markers; for Silvia, a sophomore, it was her first varsity goal, as she finished a feed from Kaleigh Teague.
Amanda Masotta made six saves on the day.