The GHSA lacrosse state championships take place from Thursday till Saturday at Denmark High School in Alpharetta.
See the results below.
Thursday
Class A-4A
Girls — Wesleyan 16, Westminster 14
Wesleyan’s girls won the team’s first state championship after a third-quarter scoring frenzy. After trailing 9-6 early in the third, Wesleyan scored four unanswered goals to climb their way back into the game taking a 10-9 lead. During that stretch, Wesleyan scored three goals in a minute. The Lady Wolves scored nine goals in the third quarter after trailing 7-5 at the break and took a 14-12 lead going into the fourth.
Early in the game star attacker Eva Garabadian kept the Lady Wolves in the game with her hat trick in the first half. On the other side, Cate Collier was big for the Lady Wildcats; she scored eight goals in the match and hit two goals in the fourth to make things interesting in the game as Westminster trailed by a lone goal with five minutes remaining.
Caroline Peebles scored the final goal of the game for Wesleyan as their defense tightened in the final stretch of the game. Sophomore attacker Savannah Higgins was also a key contributing factor offensively for Wesleyan hitting multiple goals and constantly putting pressure on the defense. Wesleyan finished the year at 19-1 and was led by a high-scoring offense this season.