12 hours Ago By Brendan Connelly
NORWELL — Things looked bleak for sophomore Lexi Davos and the Norwell girls lacrosse team Wednesday. Norwell trailed by six goals against South Shore League rival Sandwich, but Davos and her teammates refused to lose, rallying to pull off a stunning 13-11 victory. Davos scored four goals in the comeback win for Norwell (8-1).
“This is definitely the biggest deficit (we’ve faced),” said first-year Norwell coach Laura Callahan. “We were just talking over here, that we were just proud at how they just never gave up. At any point during the first, basically three quarters of that game, they could have decided to go the other way.
But they stepped up, they battled back. That was a very athletic team. I thought it was a really fun game to watch and be a part of.
Sandwich played awesome.” The Blue Knights (7-2) sure did, and that is precisely why Norwell found itself chasing from the get-go. Freshman Quinn Anderson turned in one of her best games of the season, as she sniped four goals in the opening frame to provide Sandwich an early 5-1 advantage.
With 8:13 left in the second quarter, however, the Blue Knights were dealt a blow, as Anderson went down with an apparent knee injury. Sandwich had been controlling possession all game. By that point, Callahan had subbed Davos into the game for draw controls.
“We just weren’t winning those draw controls,” said Callahan. “My college coach always says that if you win the draw, you rule the world. It (wasn’t) working.
We didn’t even have the ball, basically the whole first quarter. We needed to switch it up.” In short order, things began to click for the Clippers.
Holly Panttila and Margot Bonnevie each netted a goal, before Davos buried a shot with 1:23 left in the half to cut it to 7-4. As the third quarter began, Norwell continued to chip away. Down 8-4, Charlise Cox sniped the cage, before Bonnevie completed a hat trick with 8:11 left in the quarter to make it 8-6.
Panttila netted a goal with 7:02 left in the stanza, and it was suddenly 8-7. With 1:30 left in the third, Norwell drew even, as Cox tied things at 9-all. Panttila completed her own hat trick 26 seconds later, as the Clippers seized their first lead at 10-9.
They weren’t done. Panttila tacked on another goal with 32 seconds left in the frame. Then, following a free position attempt with six ticks left in the stanza, Davos rolled a shot at the net.
It took a wicked hop, bouncing into the twine as Norwell began to pull away with a 12-9 edge. The sophomore was the catalyst, winning seven draw controls in the quarter alone to rally the Clippers. In addition to Davos’ performance, Panttila had four goals for Norwell.
Anderson returned to the contest for Sandwich, finishing with five goals. Senior captain Avery Cobban added a hat trick. “I think as soon as we started getting multiple goals up on to the board, we all just like really clicked together,” Davos said.
“We just got so much energy, and it brought us together. We knew we could win this, we just had to work together. Then we started getting fire, and we just kept putting them away.
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