Chapin girls rally to win school’s first lacrosse state title
After disappointing endings the previous two seasons, the Chapin girls’ lacrosse team got the championship it so desperately wanted.
The Eagles overcame a halftime deficit to defeat Fort Mill, 9-6, to win the Class 5A championship Saturday at Irmo High School. It is the program’s first state title. Chapin is the second Midlands school to win a lacrosse championship.
Blythewood won it in 2010.
“It is all we think about every day and we finally did it,” Chapin sophomore Sadie Salazar said.
The Eagles lost in the championship in Class 4A the previous two years to Bishop England and moved up to Class 5A this season.
“It feels amazing and it is been amazing to watch the progression,” Chapin coach Jen Green said. “Six years ago, we couldn’t catch, throw or field groundballs. It has been amazing to watch the progression. I’m super proud of these girls.”
Green didn’t think her team played their best in the first half and then early in the second as the Yellow Jackets took a 5-4 lead on Charlotte Anderson’s goal with 19:58 left. Anderson had two goals to give her 201 for her career.
But Chapin scored four goals in a span of the next six minutes to take an 8-5 lead with 13:37 left. Riley Floyd scored a pair of goals in that stretch, the second to put Chapin up 7-5. Angel Tisdale made it up 8-5 on second goal of the game.
After Fort Mill cut it to 8-6, senior Jordan Green put it away with a goal with 1:35 left. It was Green’s 181st of her career.
“We said that wasn’t us playing and that we could do it if we pull through and have each other’s back,” said Jordan Green, the daughter of the head coach. “And we were able to do it.”
Her mother agreed with her.
“That is how you come back and rally and that is how you win the game,” Jen Green said. “We fought, fought and fought.”
Eden Ellison and Salazar each had two goals for Chapin. Abigail Walsh had several key saves in goal. The Eagles gave up just seven goals in the second half of their playoff victories.
Lacrosse State Championships
Saturday
At Irmo High School
Class 4A Girls
Bishop England 15, Christ Church 4
Class 4A Boys
Oceanside Collegiate 16, Bishop England 5
Class 5A Girls
Chapin 9, Fort Mill 6
This story was originally published April 27, 2019 at 6:42 PM.