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By TIM IRVING
Victor girls lacrosse comes at their opponents from every direction.
It’s scary, really.
The Blue Devils ran out to a 13-3 halftime lead on Mercy and cruised to a 17-8 victory in the Section V Class B girls lacrosse semifinals.
Victor will face rival Canandaigua on Monday in the Class B Championship game.
The Blue Devils took a 2-0 lead on goals by freshman Devin Livingston and junior Ella Pierpont.
Villanova commit Amber DeRosa and Cornell-bound Kylie Gelabert each made it 4-1 before the ten-minute mark.
Livingston and Pierpont netted their second goals before Sami Carey scored her second on a free position for the Monarchs.
Then the Blue Devils turned into the Victor track team.
Gelabert cut across the field and didn’t stop until she’d scored her second goal.
Olivia Bruno scored to make it 10-3, the defense got a stop and Gelabert went end to end to complete her hat trick. Off the ensuing draw, Livingston scored her fourth of the half and in a blink of an eye, 12-3 Victor.
Bruno scored with under a minute left for the 13-3 halftime lead.
“They all ask me, kind of the robotic, ‘where do I have to be?’ but I tell them just go and make the connections down the field. It seems kind of run and gun game but when we need to manage some time, we can do that too,” Coach Niki Frunzi says of her team that features seven Division I commits.
Gelabert finished with five goals and three assists, Livingston had the four goals in the first half and DeRosa scored three times. Eva Pronti, who committed to Duke had a goal and two assists.
“The senior captains did a really nice job of that the entire season, just keeping morale up and the energy up, at a high level,” Frunzi said.
Kennedy Schottland made four saves for Victor (16-1), who travel to Canandaigua. The Braves are the only team to beat the Blue Devils this season, that coming back on May 10th by an 8-7 score.
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