Varsity Girls Lacrosse: Knights head west to take on Hubs

By Ben Spector
Winning After MidKnight

                       

The Middletown High School Knights Varsity Girls Lacrosse team will conclude their pre-season schedule with a 30 minute trip up I-70 to take on the North Hagerstown High School Hubs at 6:30 p.m. from the Hub City.

Middletown’s pre-season has been a relatively easy one as they dispatched the South Carroll High School Cavaliers with relative ease by a score of 10-5 and then had a good degree of success at the Oakdale High School Play Day on Saturday, February 14^th winning 2 out of the 3 games that they played in the abbreviated scrimmage format.

The goal for Middletown heading into their showdown with the Hubs will be to get as close to game ready as is possible with a match-up on Friday, March 20^th against the Liberty High School Lions – their 1^st regular season contest looming large in the mirror.

The Knights will also look to sure up any position battles that still may be open for grabs during the scrimmage with the Hubs as not only is their game with the Lions on Friday coming close but also against one of the tougher teams in Carroll County. To beat the Lions, the Knights will need a solid performance on defense. The issue with that will be that the positions have still not been fully decided on defense for Middletown.

Middletown will also benefit from the scrimmage as it will give them more playing time on turf, something that almost all the sports teams in Middletown and, probably, to a good degree across the state will need. As was mentioned in our boys lacrosse season preview, a late February snow storm wreaked havoc on outdoor fields in Middletown, even the turf ones, forcing all of the tryouts and a large number of the 1^st practices for Middletown to be pushed indoors.

While practicing inside may be not a bad option for some sports, it is a bad option for lacrosse as long passes, defensive and offensive strategies, and lots of aspects of the game in general cannot be accurately replicated and simulated in the confined spaces of a gym floor.

As in the case with most scrimmages the result of the contest between the Knights and the Hubs will be of very little importance to either team. The importance of the scrimmage from the Middletown perspective will be if they can sure up their position battles and if they can be game-ready.