Lacrosse Team comes together with a common goal

Sports
By Colton Fockler
Husky Herald Reporter

  Northern’s lacrosse team isn't just Northern’s team. It is a unified team between Northern and Port Huron High, which is coached by Jon Holden, who played college lacrosse.

  When asked about the season Holden said “We’re all looking forward to another great season. Everyone has been working hard in the off-season and at practice. We want to win another playoff game this year, maybe two.”

  Last year the team won its first playoff game in its history and they plan to do it again, even possibly making it further than just one playoff win.

  This year's lacrosse season has started out rather well for the team, going 4-2 in their first two games. They have played one league game and loss in a thriller to L'anse Creuse North 6-5.

  The team had some rebuilding to do after losing some great players from last year like Will Krewall, Jake Schott, Brendan Conard, and many others.

  Grant Nesbitt (18’), a key attackman for the team had this to say “We are a good team, we just need to be consistent, play good defense, and score on most all of our opportunities to win games”

  Scoring goals is one thing the team hasn’t done a lot of this year. Most of the games for the team have been under eight goals a team, which is very little for a high school game.

  However, they just had a great game, April 26th, winning 12-0 against Sterling Mott Unified (Warren Mott/Sterling Heights combined.) Even a defenseman scored in the game which very rare.

  Clay Carter (17’), of  Port Huron High, the defenseman who scored, had this to say after the SMU game “We talked about the trick play to get me a goal during the timeout, but i never thought i would even get open enough let alone get the ball and score”

  Another thing affecting the team is players being ineligible for grades, losing them for a week until they get better. This ultimately led to the loss against University of Liggett, when the team lost important players for the game.

  However the team is still playing good, with a 4-2 record so far, there is not much to complain about. Hopefully they can fulfill their goal and make it further in the playoffs this year.