PITTSBORO — The Northwood boys lacrosse team crushed visiting Union Pines 15-0 on Monday, March 9 in Pittsboro in non-league play.
Northwood captured its second win in a row to improve to 2-2 on the season while Union Pines fell to 0-2.
Jake Mann had a superb game for the green and gold Chargers as the junior torched the Vikings defense for four goals while also dishing out a pair of assists to set up teammates for scores.
Decota Egnaczak had a goal and two assists in the win for Northwood while Will Smith, Terry Moore and Ben Rogers added a goal and an assist each. Henry Sapienza, Alex Xiao and Taylor Laberge chipped in a goal apiece while Sam Kellam had an assist.
In the field, Will Johnson had seven takeaways and four ground balls while Kellam chipped in five takeaways and four ground balls, and Egnaczak two ground balls and a pair of takeaways. Pierre Cook and Sapienza chipped in two ground balls and two takeaways for the Chargers while Sapienza won 3-of-5 faceoffs, Austin Wilkins 1-of-3, and Xiao 3-of-6.
In goal, Hunter Klingel took the win going 36 minutes and making seven saves.