Author: Chris McGathey

Highland Park’s lacrosse season concluded with an upset loss to Austin Westlake in the opening round of the Texas High School Lacrosse League playoffs.

The Falcons won 4-1 April 13 and 5-1 April 15 against the Scots (15-8, 6-4), who slipped to fourth place in the league standings with two weeks remaining in the regular season.

Highland Park saw its four-game winning streak snapped with a 13-5 loss to rival Jesuit last week at Highlander Stadium.

Hattie Speicher and Chloe Sanders each found the right side of the net with essential spot kicks to extend the shootout that the Lady Scots eventually won 7-6 over Frisco on a conversion by Parker Buckroyd.

Anxious to put last year’s first-round boys soccer playoff defeat in the rearview mirror, Highland Park advanced in convincing fashion on Friday.

The Lady Scots (19-0-2, 12-0-1) kept their unbeaten record intact with an 8-0 thrashing of Mesquite Poteet at Highlander Stadium.

Reese Singleton had three doubles to power the offensive attack for the Lady Scots (9-4, 0-1), who have scored at least nine runs in seven of their first 13 games this season.

Richie Paulus scored twice to lead the offensive outburst for the Scots (13-2-3, 9-0-2). Also scoring were Jack O’Grady, Hafeey Shah, and Brant Williams.