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Lacrosse team
at end of road
The regular season has come to a close for the Woodstock Academy boys’ lacrosse team.
Fortunately, for the Centaurs, there is a postseason to look forward to.
For the first time since 2016, Woodstock Academy qualified for the Class M state tournament.
“It was a goal, something we talked about all year. We wanted to get to those seven wins,” said coach Michael Noel.
The Centaurs went a little beyond that. They finished with a .500 record.
Woodstock Academy downed the St. Bernard-Wheeler cooperative, 12-7, May 18 to finish with an 8-8 mark.
Sophomore Guerin Favreau led the way with four goals and three assists.
It gave him 68 points for the season (41 goals, 27 assists) and 108 for his career.
Favreau cleared the career century mark in points earlier in the week in a loss to Norwich Free Academy.
Favreau got some help against the Saints. Senior Ethan Holcomb finished with three goals and an assist while Colin Smith added a pair of tallies. Gabe Geyer, Austen LeDonne and Seth Libby also scored.
The win was a good way to finish the week for the Centaurs who lost a heartbreaker to Fitch early in the week.
The Centaurs fought hard, but lost, 10-8, to the Falcons and ended a stretch of five games on the road.
Things didn’t get much better away from the friendly confines as the Centaurs fell to Norwich Free Academy, 9-6, May 16.
Favreau scored four goals and Ethan Haass added a pair but the Centaurs came up short against the Falcons.
Woodstock Academy never held the lead in the match, but kept it close throughout.
Fortunately for the Centaurs, they didn’t dispute those calls with the officials.
Favreau’s first goal of the game tied it at one midway through the first quarter.
LeDonne added another first quarter tally but the Falcons led, 3-2, after one.
Haass scored his first goal to tie the match briefly at three, but the Centaurs found themselves down, 5-3, at halftime.
Favreau was the only one to find the back of the cage in the third quarter, but goalie Alex Wojciechowski (13 saves) held the Falcons scoreless and it was a one-goal match going into the final quarter.
It was the first time that Wojciechowski played between the pipes.
The two teams traded goals with Favreau, Haass and Libby getting goals to tie the game at eight.
Fitch captured the win with a pair of goals over the final 2:57 of the game.
Favreau added two more goals in the loss to the Wildcats May 16.
The team had also been hampered by an injury to senior Ethan Holcomb (23 goals, 28 assists, and 51 points).
He finished with three assists against Fitch and had a goal and two assists against the Wildcats before the four-point game against St. Bernard-Wheeler.
Holcomb had been bothered by a tight hamstring.
Libby scored two goals against NFA and Sean McCusker had the other. The loss to the Wildcats meant the Centaurs finished 1-7 in Division I of the ECC.
Marc Allard
Sports Information Director
The Woodstock Academy
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