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Sheridan Mavericks Lacrosse Team Prepares For Lone Weekend Of Home Games
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It may be a short season that only runs for about 1 ½ months, but this year the Sheridan Mavericks boys lacrosse team is making the most of it so far.
Playing this past weekend in Helena, the boys defeated the host team 14-2, and also defeated Kalispell 10-8 to move to 4-0 on the season.
The Mavericks play in the Montana High School LaCrosse Association at the Division 2 level with 9 other teams.
Every team has to play each other once, but because the teams are so spread out and the season is so short, it’s not economically feasible for every team to travel to every other team in the division.
A group of teams will gather in one location for a weekend, and they will have to play some division opponents at a neutral site.
This weekend is Sheridan’s turn to host, as they will take on Cody on Friday at 7pm at the old Normative Services Field, now referred to as Mavericks Stadium.
On Saturday, they’ll take on Helena for a 2nd time, beginning at 1pm.
Coach JR Wright says so far the team has been coming together quite nicely, and players hope to put on a good showing in front of the hometown crowd this weekend.
“The things that we’ve been building on for years now are starting to finally come together with the stick skills. We’ve been able to add some more wrinkles to things recently. Run a more complicated offense and a defense with a quicker slide package and it has been really effective for us on the other side of the ball, but overall it’s really the team chemistry I think that’s really finally starting to click.”
As for the Sheridan Lady Mavericks, they won 2 out of 3 games this past weekend in Billings, and their record is now 3-2 on the season.
On Saturday, they beat Cheyenne 10-4, but lost vs. Helena 8-7.
On Sunday, the Lady Mavericks defeated the host team 9-8 in overtime.
According to their schedule, the team is off this weekend from competition and they’ll be back in action next weekend at Missoula.
Their lone weekend of home games isn’t until May 11th.