Lacrosse: Four play in all-star games

Most San Diego County high school sports have a post-season senior all-star game. Girls lacrosse has two all-star games with juniors and seniors participating in one contest and freshmen and sophomores competing in the other. That allowed four Ramona players, including two seniors, to play in all-star games at Coronado High School.

“It was a good way to finish the season,” said assistant coach Al Cavell.

The teams were not divided by grade level, school division or geography. Ramona seniors Megan Vandervort and Mackenzie Griffin were on the same team in the junior-senior game. One of the freshman-sophomore teams included sophomores Zoe Bennet and Tiffany Meredith.

The freshman-sophomore team with Bennet and Meredith won that game by a single-goal margin.

“It was a really close game,” Cavell said.

Meredith, who is a forward, scored one of her team’s goals.

Bennet is a defender. “No goal for her, obviously,” Cavell said.

Each team had 16 players, with 12 players on the field at the same time, so the two Ramona players had significant playing time while being rotated on and off the field.

“I’m just excited to see what they can do next year,” Cavell said of Bennet and Meredith.

The attempt to make the teams as competitively equal as possible was not successful for the junior-senior game, and Vandervort and Griffin were on the losing end. “They got creamed,” Cavell said.

The two Ramona seniors still had the opportunity to see significant action in the all-star game.

During the season Vandervort was a midfielder and Griffin was a defender. Both played defense in the all-star competition. Vandervort will attend the University of California, Berkeley, and Griffin will study at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Both are considering playing club lacrosse in college.