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Mountain Ridge Girls Lacrosse team finishes undefeated in region play

May 13, 2021 03:18PM ● By Justin Adams

Leading scorer for the Sentinels, Morgan Mackey, fires a shot during the team's Senior Night game against Timpanogos. (Justin Adams/The City Journals)

By Justin Adams | [email protected]

To say Mountain Ridge’s girls lacrosse team had a remarkable first season would be an understatement. 

The Sentinels finished with a perfect 12-0 region record (15-1 overall), had 8 out of 10 starters named first team All-Region and were ranked as the second best overall team in the whole state. 

Head coach Angie Maughan knew her team had that kind of potential, but she thought maybe it would take a year or two to come together.

“They are a very young talented team,” she told the Herriman Journal following a 14-2 Senior Night victory over Timpanogos. “I expected us to be contenders in the future. But they blew me away from the very first game.”

The team started the season out with a bang, winning their first five games by a combined score of 94-10. The lone blemish on the season: a 15-13 loss to crosstown rival Herriman. 

Two of the teams’ strengths are their relentlessness and their teamwork. 

“They come out with all their heart. They stay intense from start to finish,” Maughan said. “They don’t depend on just one player, they work together as a team both on attack, midfield and defense. They’re a unit.”

Their teamwork and willingness to share the ball around is evidenced by the fact that the team has 11 players with 10 more goals this season. 

While they don’t depend on just one player, they do have several standouts. 

One of those is senior Kylie Mortensen, a team captain who Maughan said has a talent for getting those around her to work harder. Stats-wise, she leads the team in assists (29) and is second in goals (36). She also takes the team’s draws, which she wins at a very high percentage (.659).

The only other senior on the team, Jo Miles, is the team’s goalie. 

“Jo has worked her butt off this summer,” Maughan said. “The goalie she has become from last summer to now, is huge. She’s getting comfortable coming out of the goal, forcing turnovers and getting those ground balls.”

The Sentinels were ranked as the second best overall team in the state by the RPI system, earning them a 2-seed in the Division A bracket. 

As opposed to most other sports which compete within their classification, the lacrosse postseason groups the sixteen best teams, no matter what classification they are in, into one bracket. Then the next sixteen best teams are placed into a seperate bracket. So the girls Division A includes teams from smaller schools like Bear River (4A) and Waterford (2A). In fact, Mountain Ridge’s first game of the tournament will be against Ridgeline, a 4A school from Cache Valley. That game will take place on May 18. 


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