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Matt Zmurko, Rutland High School girls lacross coach.
LaBate said.
The Raiders lost some close games
in which they had the lead last year so
LaBate is hoping to get a little more out
of his offense this season.
While the transition game is a work
in progress, LaBate likes the move-
ment, cutting and passing he’s seen
with the Raiders working the ball in the
offensive zone in preseason scrimmages
with Harwood and Woodstock.
“We’re hoping to make some pretty
things happen,” LaBate said.
Eric Brewer, Garrett Davine and
Aiden Pitts lead the attack.
LaBate is also looking for minutes
from Jacob Burton, a freshman long
pole, Jaden Kelley and Casey Coughlin.
The defense will get a boost once
senior Matt Mumford has honed his
skills a bit after two years away from the
game.
“Once he decided he was coming
back to lacrosse he did all the presea-
son work,” LaBate said. “He could
potentially start on defense.”
The Raiders start the season at
home on Saturday against traditional
contender Woodstock at Alumni Field
at 11 a.m.
Rutland girls
Former junior varsity coach Matt
Zmurko takes over the top team this
year and the cupboard was not left
bare.
“I have a great bunch of kids,” he
said.
The Raiders return nine players and
many of them are multi-sport stars and
quality athletes, like fi rst-team all-stater
Francie Ettori, honorable mention
candidate Logan Kinsman and Brianna
Beauchamp and Maggie Schillinger.
Jenna Sunderland, Makieya Hen-
drickson, Alexis Patterson and Justine
Peters join that midfi eld group.
The Raiders had two scrimmages
as of early this week and Zmurko likes
what he saw.
“I liked our cohesiveness. I like that
we stuck it out, playing with high-level
teams from New York,” he said.
Kendra Sabotka, Rylee Burgess, Cait-
lin French, Paige Bohlig, Alexa McPhee
and Janel Bove will play on the attack.
Leah Zmurko is back in goal, where
Caroline Coloutti also plays, and coach
Zmurko hopes to get both playing
time. They will have a veteran defense
in front of them in Zoe Zmurko, Katie
Sunderland and Anna Bower, and Elise
Magro is re-joining the program this
year.
Megan O’Connor and Haley Lasser
are other team members.
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