Final night in Portland, Maine, the U.S. ladies’ scholastic lacosse season ended with the Maine Principals’ Affiliation Class B title match.
It was a Mid-Coast derby between two groups solely about 10 miles from one another alongside Interstate 295, Freeport (Maine) and Topsham Mount Ararat (Maine). Each groups have been 16-0 coming into the season, and have been seeking to carry out their finest. Mount Ararat was in search of its first state title in program historical past, and Freeport was in search of its second.
The sport was additionally being performed in opposition to a altering background of competitors inside Maine. The game used to have two divisions inside every of the three state enrollment classification. and the match was organised to determine two regional championship in every classification earlier than the winner-take-all state title match. Nevertheless, today, there is only one statewide bracket in every enrollment class.
On the day, seniors Lana DiRusso had 4 targets and Mia Levesque had three to energy Freeport to an 11-9 win. The 2 of them have been the highest goal-getters for the Falcons in the course of the MPA playoffs, scoring greater than 70 % of their targets.
The win wasn’t simple, given the truth that Mount Ararat, a workforce which has prided itself on protection, threw in a wrinkle for this title match by placing ninth-grader Pleasure Stewart within the purpose cage. Stewart performed impressed within the purpose circle, however Freeport was in a position to maintain the lead all recreation lengthy, working off the final 4 minutes of recreation clock to win the title.
The sport was the final of 1000’s throughout america over the course of the 2025 season, and yielded a worthy winner ultimately.
