Women lacrosse: Wyomissing beats Hershey for first district title

The Wyomissing Spartans have actually when again added to their historic season

. The Spartans (22-0) won their first-ever BCIAA title earlier this month, and now they’ll need to make room for a district champion in their trophy case.

Wyomissing beat Hershey 16– 2 on Tuesday night at Bob Wolfrum Field to win the District 3 Class 2A champion, the first district title for the girls program.

“I’m completely taken aback for words,” Spartans coach Rachel Shappell said. “Completely elated. They’re such a terrific group of kids. We had a strategy, they were prepared, and they executed it. It assists that they’re a skilled group, but they’re also really smart. I’m just so proud of them.”

“Feels fantastic,” assaulter Molly Macrina said. “This was among our objectives that we were working for, and it simply seems like a dream.”

Wyomissing’s Molly Macrina had a career-high 6 goals in the Spartans’16-2 triumph

over Hershey in the District 3 Class 2A ladies ‘lacrosse champion on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at Bob Wolfrum Field. Here she shoots and ratings her fifth goal of the game.(EXPENSE UHRICH/READING EAGLE )It was the biggest margin of success in

District 3 Class 2A ladies lacrosse champion history.”In 2015, we lost the Twin Valley, and clearly, I think we all came out here wanting to fight in our home field,”

goalie Skylar Maggs stated.”It didn’t exercise our method last year, so it suggests a lot.”From the start, the top-seeded Spartans managed the game, with Mackenzie Maggs scoring

within the first 2 minutes. In the next five minutes, Molly Macrina, who scored her 100th profession goal in the semifinals, tape-recorded a hat-trick.”I truthfully didn’t even realize what occurred, “Macrina said of her very first quarter hat-trick.”

I was just like, ‘Got ta get another one. Got ta get another one.”At the end of the very first quarter

, the Spartans led 5-0. Wyomissing kept overdoing the objectives in the 2nd quarter, with early ratings from Macrina and Kacey Maggs.”She had such an excellent game,” Shappell said of Macrina. “We even stated something on the sideline when she scored among them (goals), we were similar to, ‘I believe that getting the 100th objective off of her back, mentally, was such a relief.’ There was no doubt, there was no overthinking. She was just electrical.”

Lastly, at the 5:22 mark, the Trojans (19-2) got on the scoreboard with an objective from Hannah Russel, a Campbell University commit.

Wyomissing’s Emily Maturi backhands a shot into the Hershey goal in the Spartans’16-2 success in the District 3 Class 2A

girls’lacrosse champion on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at Bob Wolfrum Field. (EXPENSE UHRICH/READING EAGLE)But the second-seeded Trojans ‘very first objective was instantly responded to by a backhanded objective from Emily Maturi, assisted by Kacey Maggs. It continued to be all Spartans in the very first half. The Trojans (19-2)had a hard time offensively as protectors Ella Anders, Lilli Marshall, Osgleidys Acevedo, and EP Benedict, in addition to goalie Skylar Maggs, provided a remarkable protective performance.

“Our defense is the number one in the state, and I’ll state that until completion, they are amazing,” Macrina said of her colleagues. “They are excellent on their clears, they’re actually proficient at increasing cutters, and they lock down the other team’s attack.”

“I simply saved the shots that came at me,” Skylar Maggs said. “Our defense played fantastic, and they put them in bad situations all game.”

Audrey Hurleman scored 2 successive objectives, followed by an Abby Noey goal, extending the running cause 11-1 at halftime.

Even with the big lead, Shappell advised her group to keep their foot on the pedal, figured out to avoid any possibility of a return.

“The goal is to put it away as quickly as possible, and do not let them come back,” Shappell told her group. “We stated, ‘Pedal down from the start, make sure you make a statement.’ We didn’t desire what had actually happened previously with the comebacks to mess with us psychologically. I stated, ‘If there’s a time to make a declaration, it’s now in a game like this.”

The Spartans did just that in the second half.

Macrina added her fifth goal of the game, Mackenzie Maggs scored two times, and Hurleman finished her hat-trick in the third.

Holding a 15-1 lead heading into the 4th quarter, the Spartans controlled possession for the majority of the duration, with Macrina scoring her 6th objective to put the icing on the cake.

Skylar Maggs kept her group locked in defensively, permitting only one more late objective to Russel.

The Wyomissing Spartans are the District 3 Class 2A women’lacrosse champions.(BILL UHRICH/READING EAGLE)”We would not be here without her, “Shappell stated about Skylar Maggs.” Her holding us down on the defense, and she keeps the team together. Like I stated before, they’re all so clever with their LAX IQ that she sees things that many goalies won’t see on defense, and she tweaks things. They all regard her, and they listen to her, and they shift, and do what she’s asking them to do. But it begins with her in the back, and we would not be in this position if it weren’t for her, honestly, due to the fact that going unbeaten, that begins with the goalie.”

7 different Spartans scored in the game, a well-rounded efficiency.

Wyomissing is ranked the No. 1 Class 2A group in the state, according to PA Lax News.

The Spartans are aiming to capture every possible championship, county, district, and state, while keeping an undefeated season. They have the prospective to go down as one of the greatest ladies lacrosse groups in Pennsylvania history.

“We really simply wanted to make a statement entering into states,” Macrina stated. “We had to win this game so we could use the west rather of the east in Philly. So, we simply needed to make the declaration, to show the groups that were the ones to beat and that we’re coming for the state title.”

The Spartans will begin their quest for a state title on Tuesday in the first round of the PIAA playoffs against the District 7 third-place finisher.

Wyomising’s Audrey Hurleman shoots and ratings in the Spartans’ 16-2 victory over Hershey in the District 3 Class 2A girls’ lacrosse champion on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at Bob Wolfrum Field. (EXPENSE UHRICH/READING EAGLE) Originally Published: May 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM EDT