South Lakes Sports Roundup

With only two regular season games under their belts, the Seahawk girls lacrosse team has doubled its  wins from last year.

After starting the season with a 19-13 victory at Falls Church, South Lakes beat Yorktown 12-11 at home Tuesday night. 

Yorktown jumped to an early lead when Jennie Basile, Yorktown’s top scorer of the night, put one in with only 1:09 off the clock.  However, based on a powerful defense, some incredible goal tending by Lisi Mueller, and numerous goals by Freshman Megan Greatorex and captain Abby Reed, South Lakes led the Patriots at halftime 7-4.

In the second half, Yorktown pulled within one point before additional goals by freshman Maddie Daum and sophomore Jule McCaffrey gave the Seahawks a 10-6 lead.  With less than two minutes left in the game, Emily Spack tossed one into the net for Yorktown tying the game 11-11.

 With the clock on the field, the go-ahead goal was scored by the Seahawks on a sequence involving a defensive turnover by senior captain Katie Horlacher with a feed to Daum, who passed it off to Maria Leith for the victory.

New head coach Lindsey Linden next takes his Seahawks to Dominion High School on Thursday.

Girls soccer: The Seahawks lost at Robert E; Lee 3-2 on Monday.  

Scoring for South Lakes were junior Jenna Anderson and senior Jessie Sells. South Lakes plays at Herndon on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

Boys soccer: South Lakes boys tied Robert E. Lee 2-2 on Monday. Denis Gonzalez South Lakes had the lone score in the first half . Mitch Dempster scored with an assist from Tyler Hutchins.

Boys tennis: The Seahawks earned their first team victory since ealry in the 2009 season when they defeated Stone Bridge 7-2 in their regular-season opener on Tuesday. Read more about

Coaches and parents - Have some SLHS scores, results and photos? Send them to Patch (kareng@patch.com) for inclusion in our next sprots roundup.