Sports activities at Meridian High School this week began with the girls’ lacrosse team hosting Kettle Run for a Senior Night showdown on Monday, with a trifecta of teams – baseball, softball, and boys’ soccer – all in action on Tuesday hosting Brentsville. It was a mixed bag of results, with lacrosse and soccer able to snag victories in front of the home crowd while baseball and softball came up short.

The lacrosse game figured to be a blowout from the start, as the Mustangs scored four times in the opening three minutes and led 6-0 after a period. They extended that lead to 13-1 at the half, and then with a running clock throughout the second half, ended up winning 18-3. Tilly Gale, C.C. Carmody, Ally Campbell, and Lila Deering combined for all of the first sixteen goals, with Gale and Carmody each accounting for five of them while Campbell and Deering had three. Maddie Henry and Marin Baroody then scored once the starters had been taken out of the game, as Meridian improved to a stellar 12-1 on the year.

Softball fell 5-1 the next night, snapping their three-game winning streak and dropping them to 5-11 for the season. Baseball lost 3-1 in a rough one, as they went toe-to-toe with the division-leading Tigers through the first six innings before Brentsville scored two runs in the top of the seventh to bring the Mustangs’ record to 8-7. On an even more unfortunate note, starting pitcher Alessio Azimipour – who had performed valiantly – was injured on a line drive that hit him in the face during that final inning.

On the bright side for the Mustangs, the boys’ soccer team was able to take care of business by earning a 4-0 shutout win on Tuesday night. Three of those four goals were scored by Felix Green, who completed his hat trick midway through the second half, and the team earned its fifth consecutive win to move to 8-6.