Cleveland Heights Girls' Lacrosse Game Moved to Wednesday

Bad weather cancels Monday's game with Perrysburg

The Cleveland Heights girls’ lacrosse home playoff game against Perrysburg has been rescheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday after bad weather conditions canceled Monday’s game. The teams will still play on Cleveland Heights' football field. If the No. 1 ranked Tigers win, they still face a game Thursday as originally scheduled against either No. 2-ranked and defending Division I state champion Medina or Shaker Heights in the regional final of the Ohio Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association Tournament. The site and time of the regional final is to be determined, and if the regional final isn’t played on Thursday, it will be rescheduled for May 31, Tigers head coach Terry Saylor said. Saylor said many of the players competing in the OSLA Tournament …

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Cleveland Heights Girls' Lacrosse Forfeits Games, But Continues to Win

School's teams gearing up for playoff action

Although the Cleveland Heights girls’ lacrosse team had a very successful week on the field, they learned earlier this week they had to forfeit three games for using an ineligible player, said the team’s head coach. A Tigers defender received two yellow cards against Shaker Heights April 14, which under Ohio Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association rules merely knocks a player from that game, but under U.S. Lacrosse rules suspends a player for the following game. After the Shaker Heights game, the Tigers used the player against Western Reserve Academy the next day on April 15, and in two games against Mason and Lake Forest, IL, on Saturday, before realizing the difference between the two governing bodies' rules the following Monday, said  coach …

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No. 1 Cleveland Heights Girls' Lacrosse Falls to Hudson

Explorers prove once again to be the Tigers' nemesis in a tight game

The Hudson girls’ lacrosse team rallied and scored the game’s final four goals to defeat Ohio’s No. 1 team Cleveland Heights, 10-9, on Monday afternoon at Kent State’s Dix Stadium in boggy conditions. “It was a bit of an odd game. Unfortunately, we ended up on the short end,” Tigers coach Terry Saylor said. “It was a game of runs.” Cleveland Heights started off well, leading, 5-1, but Hudson, ranked 11th, rallied to take a 6-5 lead. Cleveland got on top again, 9-6, before the Explorers’ decisive run. Carol Ryan led the Tigers (8-2) with three goals. “Our defense wasn’t as good as it typically is,” Saylor said. “At that point, with a 9-6 lead, we should have been able to finish out that game, and we weren’t able to do it.” Hudson (4-1) has …

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