Week Two for Meridian High School’s spring sports season brought more success than the previous one, and the momentum was needed as the school is now on break for the final week of March. Baseball, soccer, and lacrosse all earned some big victories, so here’s a quick recap.
The baseball team traveled to Potomac Senior on Friday and won 12-0, then closed out their pre-break stretch of the season with a tournament doubleheader on Monday by beating Annandale 6-0 and Thomas Jefferson 5-4 to improve their season record to 4-2. Their softball counterparts meanwhile lost 2-1 at Oakton last Monday before taking one out of three tournament games a week later, falling 10-9 against Westfield this Monday and then losing 7-2 to South Lakes on Tuesday. On the bright side, they picked up their first of the year in the second half of their Monday doubleheader by beating West Potomac 8-4, and they and the boys will now be off until April 8th when they both play at Brentsville.
Boys’ soccer played only one game this past week, improving their record to 2-3 after holding serve at home against Briar Woods on Thursday, while the girls beat Osbourn Park 2-1 on Wednesday and then lost 5-1 at Briar Woods on a quick turnaround the next night to fall to 2-2 on the year. The boys will face John Lewis on April 8th when they return from break, while the girls will host Wakefield the day after that.
The lacrosse boys beat Wakefield on the road Wednesday to move to 2-0 in their quiet, but productive start to the year, and will be one of the first teams to return from the break when they host Sidwell Friends on Wednesday, April 3rd. The girls, meanwhile, have emerged as the headliners of the spring season thus far, as wins against Riverside on Monday (16-13) and then at McLean on Wednesday (16-10) improve their experienced squad to a perfect 4-0. They’ll compete in tournament play when they return, facing both Langley and Oakton at Centerville High School on April 13th.
Both tennis teams were off this past week, but will return at the start of April with the girls playing at Wakefield on Tuesday and the boys at home against Yorktown on Wednesday.