Northwest girls down Lakeview

COLUMBUS Tara New scored four goals and assisted on another as Northwest defeated Columbus Lakeview 5-3 on Thursday.

New's goals came at the 7-minute mark of the first period and at 51, 70 and 79 minutes in the second half. She also assisted on Kelsi Brondel's first half goal.

"(New) was on fire," Northwest coach Craig Charron said. "We were disappointed that we couldn't use her better against Kearney, so we had her back out more. All of her goals came from outside.

"We were really happy with the effort she had."

Lakeview held a 3-2 lead after one half, but Northwest (1-1) used New's three-goal outburst and a strong defensive effort to put the game away.

"The defense had a good second half," Charron said. "The second half we really controlled the action."

Northwest boys fall to Lakeview

COLUMBUS Grand Island Northwest's boys team dropped a 3-1 decision Thursday to Columbus Lakeview

It was the first time GINW had lost to Lakeview since 1998.

"They out played us and out worked us," Northwest coach Roger Doud said. "They deserved to win."

Northwest held a 1-0 lead at the half after Ryan Doud scored off an assist from Julian Monasterio.

Lakeview took a 2-1 lead, then added a goal at the end to account for the final margin.

Lexington tops Crusader boys

Santiago Perez had three goals and Aaron Gomez two to lead Lexington past Grand Island Central Catholic 5-3 on Thursday in Grand Island.

The Crusaders battled back from a 2-0 deficit to tie the score at the end of the half. Lexington, however, scored the next three goals to put the game out of reach.

Justis Stolz (34:30, assisted by Austin Witmer), Luke Wagoner (39:15) and Erick Ortiz (83:14) each scored for GICC.

* TRACK

G.I. girls open at LNE Relays

LINCOLN Grand Island Senior High's girls track team opened the season with a strong performance Thursday at the Lincoln Northeast Relays.

The Islanders won four events in the non-scoring meet.

The Islanders combined to win the long jump and the triple jump in the field events as well as the thrower's relay.

Suzanne Higgins, Allison Jorgensen, Michaela Knuth and Alex Armes also won the 400-meter relay in 50.59 seconds.

Islanders boys compete indoors

KEARNEY The Grand Island Senior High boys track team competed at the Kearney Indoor Invitational Thursday in Kearney. No team scoring was kept.

Grand Island's Adam Werner won the 600-meter run in 1:32.27. It was the only victory of the night for the Islander varsity.