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Dymanic Duo: Leah Gold (left) and Jessica Oring has Park School on the brink of a championship. Gold's four goals and two assists and Oring's five assists and three goals carried the Bruins past Friends School in an IAAM B Conference lacrosse semifinal Thursday.
At times, weather is the great equalizer in sports. So the moist conditions Thursday afternoon seemed primed to slow down Park School and Friends School in their IAAM B Conference semifinal match. It didn’t.
Seniors Jessica Oring and Leah Gold combined for 14 points as the Bruins outscored Friends, 9-3, in the second half to cruise to a convincing victory, 14-7. Park will face top-seeded Garrison Forest School for the championship Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. at St. Paul’s School.
“We haven’t had competitive games, but with this win, it just feels so good to beat Friends, especially after they played such a good game against us last time,” said Oring, who was instrumental in Park’s 13-12 victory over the Quakers on April 16. “We just wanted to play our game and not be intimidated by them.”
Oring finished the game with eight points on three goals and five assists for Park (18-2). Gold tallied six points on four second-half scores and two assists. The Bruins also got three goals from sophomore Lucie Weinberg and sophomore Adrienne Tarver netted two goals.
“It certainly feels really good. There’s nothing better than beating a team on their own field,” said Bruins head coach Robin Cardin Lowe. “What’s special about this team is that we have the balance that different people step up every game and that’s happened today.”
Friends (15-6) jumped out to a 1-0 lead four minutes into the game when junior Libby Nichols eluded the stick of Park junior goalie Anja Fries. The Bruins responded one minute later with a goal from Weinberg.
After Tarver maneuvered her way to the front of the crease and found the net to give Park the advantage, junior Caroline Silber retaliated with her first of two scores. The squads traded goals the remainder of the half leaving the Bruins holding a slight 5-4 halftime lead.
“I told the girls at halftime that they needed to take control of the game,” said Lowe. “It would start with draw control and winning ground balls and they would just have to hustle hard and finish.”
A minute into the second half, junior Lindsay Cooper took a pass from senior Eva Zaret and avoided Fries to knot the score at five. The goal was one of the few offensive outputs from Friends in the second half, as Fries and the Bruins’ defense clamped down on the Quaker’s attack.
Park took advantage, erupting for six unanswered goals. Gold spearheaded the charge, scoring the Bruins’ sixth, eighth, 12th and 13th goals.
“I came into this game not feeling so good, but I wanted to come out and play this game because it was really important to our team and important to me,” said Gold. “I guess playing the first half got me warmed up and excited but in the second half I was just ready to go. I wasn’t thinking about being sick or anything else.”
“Leah was sensational today. She set herself up quite a bit to take the ball in hard, said Lowe. “I think she had something to prove, this is her senior year, she was just ready to out there and make sure that she finished everything she did.”
After Nichols’ goal shrunk the Bruins lead to 12-7 with 4:38 remaining, Park again responded. Gold’s fourth goal of the half and senior Mica Fidler’s score with 58 seconds left secured the berth to Saturday’s final round.
“Winning this feels really good, and I’m excited we’re playing Garrison,” said Oring. “We haven’t won against them yet but they say you can’t beat a team three times, so I’m hoping we can come out with the win.”
Garrison Forest (18-3) supplied the Bruins with their only two losses of the spring, 13-3 and 12-10. Lowe and the Bruins are hoping the third time around will be their charm.
“They certainly believe in themselves right now and we proved it the last game that we can play with Garrison,” said Lowe. “This certainly will thrust us forward knowing that we can score and our defense can clamp down like this.”
IAAM B Conference semifinals
Park School 14, Friends School 7Goals: P – Gold 4, Oring 3, Weinberg 3, Tarver 2, Cohen 1, Fidler 1. F – Nichols 2, Silber 2, Zaret 1, Cooper 1, Schmidt 1.
Assists: P – Lee 1, Oring 5, Gold 2. F – Silber 1, Zaret 1, Cooper 1.
Saves: P – Fries 5. F – Dang 14.