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Club Lacrosse: "2013 US Lacrosse U15 Girls National Championship" Features "BearLax 2016 Blue" Seeded #6 Heading Into Championship Round
A capacity 32 girls' teams from 16 states played through rain and humidity on opening day of the US Lacrosse U15 National Championship, powered by Lacrosse Unlimited, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex Tuesday.
Northern California-based BearLax is primarily a club team program for elite players to compete with and against other top players from all over the country.
STEPS 2016, in its first appearance in US Lacrosse's five-year-old U15 national championship, was among seven teams to post a 3-0 record in pool play. The Chester, N.J.-based program gave up just seven goals in the three games to earn the top seed via tiebreaker over defending national champion Sky Walkers 2016 (Md.), which gave up eight goals to get the No. 2 seed. Dominant (Md.), Yellow Jackets Blue (N.Y.), Long Island Liberty (N.Y.), BearLax 2016 Blue (Calif.) and the Long Island Top Guns (N.Y.) rounded out the unbeaten teams seeded 3-7.
US Lacrosse Girls' U15 National Championship Seeds (Pool-Play Record)
1. Steps 2016 (3-0)
2. Sky Walkers 2016 (3-0)
3. Dominant (3-0)
4. Yellow Jackets Blue (3-0)
5. Long Island Liberty (3-0)
6. BearLax 2016 Blue (3-0)
7. Long Island Top Guns (3-0)
8. Yellow Jackets Gold (2-0-1)
9. Lax Maniax (2-0-1)
10. NEM&D 2016 (2-1)
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Lacrosse Tournaments: BearLax 2016 Blue Girls Lacrosse Club Captures 2013 US Lacrosse U-15 West Championships In San Jose, CA With 10-4 Win Over BearLax 2017 Blue On June 28-30
Ashley Hill scored twice to help top-seeded BearLax 2016 Blue win the girls' U15 championship with a 10-4 victory over third-seeded BearLax 2017 Blue (Calif.) in a matchup of teams from the Bay Area-based club program.
The elder BearLax led 4-2 at the break and ran off the first six goals of the second half. Ashley Ward scored twice in defeat for the 2017 team.
Caitlin McCarthy scored in the first half of BearLax 2016 Blue's (Calif.) 10-4 win over sister team BearLax 2017 Blue in the girls' U15 final at the Morgan Hill Outdoor Sports Center. Both squads advanced to the US Lacrosse U15 National Championship, powered by Lacrosse Unlimited, July 23-25 in Orlando. Photo by
©Damon Tarver for Lacrosse Magazine.
"We scrimmage at practice sometimes, but it was fun to do it in an official environment," said Theresa Sherry, director of BearLax. "It was pretty spirited, but at the end we had a whole club cheer, which was pretty special."
Sherry and her teams have qualified for the US Lacrosse U15 National Championship in previous years, under the NorCal Elite Green name.
"We decided to take the BearLax name and keep that chemistry going instead of having two different groups," Sherry said. "A lot of these kids have been to Florida before and were at the West Championships in Phoenix last year. They know the deal."
Sherry's squads beat two other teams in the semifinals that are bound for Orlando July 23-25. The 2016 team knocked off fourth-seeded Desert Heat Black (Ariz.), 9-2, while the 2017 team withstood a challenge from the second-seeded Pacific Falcons (Calif.), 8-5.
"This was a good warm-up, no pun intended," Sherry said. "In the next few weeks, they'll know how to prepare for the heat and the speed of play. There's a lot of excitement around going [back to the national championship]."
For more: http://laxmagazine.com/high_school/boys/2012-13/news/063013_bradys_bunch_and_bearlax_among_us_lacrosse_west_champions
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Tagged 2013 US Lacrosse West Championships, BearLax, Club Teams, High School Girls, Tournaments