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Stone Bridge's Giusti sets records; Bulldogs win Liberty
Stone Bridge sophomore Lauren Giusti may still be too young to obtain a Virginia driver's license, but the talented goal scorer hasn't been too young to leave an indelible mark on the Bulldogs' lacrosse program.
Giusti scored a school-record eight goals during her squad's 14-11 win over Woodson last Friday -- a result that crowned Stone Bridge as the 2008 Liberty District champions.
“I've learned how to fake out girls in the crease and that has helped me a lot, but it's all been a team thing,” said a praise-deflecting Giusti. “I could never have done it without the team.”
Giusti, 15, originally set the school's single-game scoring record two days prior with seven goals in a 21-7 dismantling of Madison, but it was the breaking of a former teammate's -- er, family member's -- single-season mark that has carried the most weight.
Entering the game with an astonishing 58 goals, Giusti sat two tallies behind her older sister Missy's single-season record of 60. Missy Giusti graduated from Stone Bridge after the 2007 season, allowing the younger sibling to immediately pop out of her shadow and into the record-setting spotlight.
“I wonder what my sister will say,” asked Giusti, rhetorically. “I'll have to tell her that I beat her school record, and I don't know how she'll feel about that.”
Giusti's heroics weren't atypical during last Friday's win over Woodson. With 23 minutes, 17 seconds remaining in the game and the Bulldogs trailing by one, Giusti teamed with senior Kristen Pascale and junior Amy Rollins (3 goals) to score five consecutive times, giving Stone Bridge a 14-9 lead.
First-year coach Kristin Howard has stressed conditioning for her group, but she's also preached the importance of starting anew.
“It was a whole new game,” Howard said, referencing what at one point was a 9-9 tie. “I told them, 'If you want this, you have to go out and get this.' And they did. They wanted this tonight.”
Stone Bridge will play host to Lake Braddock tonight in the first round of the Northern Region tournament.
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