The Davis High boys lacrosse team was dominant in two victories last week, taking down Las Lomas and Casa Roble by a combined score of 30-2.

First, in a 16-1 win over LLHS, the Blue Devils used nice ball movement to enable seven different scorers, including Will Johnson, who had five goals. Nate Soeth and Neil Welch added three goals each for DHS, Luke Maffly had two and single tallies came from Cole Koeberer, defender Ethan Iacano and Lucas Russell, whose goal was his first ever.

The stingy Devil defense was anchored by goalie Wade Matern (six saves) and Iacano (six takeaways), and featured ground ball pickups from Bradley Kishaba, Jimmy McGlynn, Owen Musgrove, Santiago Nouvet and Enya Fujishima, among others.

Davis’ Owen Musgrove (eight of 13) and Bijan Soltani (four of seven) shined on face-offs.

Playing well on both sides of the ball again on Friday, the Blue Devils crushed host Casa Roble, 14-1.

High-scoring attackers Soeth (five), Johnson (four) and Koeberer (three) paced the DHS offense, which followed coach Joey Moseanko’s charge to assist on nearly all of the goals.

Meanwhile, the Devil defense — led by McGlynn, Nouvet, Iacano and newcomer Eddie Segura — scooped up 39 ground balls and nabbed 18 takeaways.

DHS JV girls soccer

The Blue Devils had to dig deep for a pair of recent victories, coming from behind to beat Elk Grove, 5-2, and St. Francis, 4-3.

Last Wednesday against the Herd, DHS opened the scoring with the first goal of Tiffany Miras’ hat trick — off a rebound from a strong shot by Sarah Postema — and saw goalie McKenna Chupka save a penalty kick. Still, EGHS took a 2-1 lead into halftime.

The Devils settled down and completely dominated the second half, outshooting the Herd 13-5 and equalizing when Julia Alali netted a perfect header off a corner kick from Miras. Davis took the lead for good when Kylie Thompson and Postema combined to set up Miras for a rocket into the upper right corner.

Miras finished her hat trick on a PK after Alali was taken down in the box, then midfielder Shay Shaffer added a final insurance goal when she punched in a nice cross by Sophia DeRuntz.

Good defense from Lisa Howard and Gabby Arendt helped the Blue Devils hold on for the victory.

Against the Troubadours on Monday, two late goals, including the winner in the final seconds, gave DHS a win.

The Devils were ahead 2-1 early in the second half, following a Khalida Pergher cross to Andrea Zheng, but two tallies from SFHS put it up 3-2, where the score stayed until less than five minutes remained.

That’s when Miras sent in a low hard shot that the Troubadour keeper saved with a diving effort, but when the ball escaped her grasp, Shaffer punched it in to tie the game. Then, with just seconds left in the only minute of extra time, Shaffer picked off a weak clearance and rifled in a bullet to secure the victory.

DHS JV swimming

On a crisp, breezy afternoon at Arroyo Pool, the Blue Devil boys and girls rolled over Pleasant Grove.

For the DHS girls, sophomore Sydnee Christian-Lichtenhan led the way with victories in the 200 individual medley and the 100 butterfly, while sophomore Moira Williams won the 200 freestyle and 10th-grader Katrina Sturm took first in the 50 free.

Later, in a close battle with teammate Williams, sophomore Jessica Yang prevailed in the 100 free.

Other winners for the Devils girls were freshmen Lauren Giovannetti (500 free) and Christina Maguire (100 backstroke) and sophomore Karla Estrada (100 breaststroke).

Davis boys saw several different swimmers touch first in their races, including freshmen Tyler Babcock (200 free) and Ethan Tran (200 IM).

Speedy sophomore Alex Preisler claimed victory in the 50 free and classmate Nate Burmas triumphed in the 100 fly.

A close race in the 100 free featured sophomore Matt Blackwell edging Preisler, then sophomore Scott Soderquist led start to finish in the 500 free.

Rounding out the Blue Devil boys winners were freshman Ben West (100 back) and sophomore Jack Liu (100 breast).

DHS JV softball

Following a punishing 23-1 win over visiting Grant on Friday, the Blue Devils rallied from three runs down to take a late lead before Pleasant Grove answered back to finish off a 10-7 victory over DHS (11-4, 3-3 Delta League) on Tuesday.

Against the Pacers, Devils Sadie Marigo and Rebeca Engelhard combined for a no-hitter in the circle — allowing just one unearned run — while every player in the Davis lineup contributing to the offense. Leading the way were Taylor Trinidad, who hit for the cycle while going 5-for-5 and scoring four runs, Shekinah Prewett (2-for-2, run) and Lauren Aquino (two doubles, two runs, two RBIs), who also played well at first base.

Facing a talented Eagles squad on Tuesday, the locals were down 7-4 before exploding for six runs in the fifth inning. Aquino got the rally started with a double, then scored on Patti Swimley’s RBI single.

Later, consecutive hits Sydney DaRold, Mikayla Stilwell and Sam Griffiths kept the train rolling before Aquino got her second safety of the inning, knocking in another run.

PGHS, however, answered with six runs of its own in the sixth inning.

DHS freshman baseball

After dropping a pair of games to Franklin last week, the Blue Devils bounced back for two convincing wins over Sheldon — 12-4 on Friday in Davis and 14-4 on Monday in Elk Grove.

On Friday, strong pitching efforts by Ryan Berry, Jack Painter and Lev Farris Goldenberg held the Huskies in check while Devil hitters Owen Schwab, Derek Mundy and Farris Goldenberg each had two RBIs.

Davis’ offensive explosion began when Owen Troy blasted a first-inning triple.

The Blue Devils stayed hot on Monday with Painter, Mason Scheiber, Farris Goldenberg and Brenden Murray leading the offense that did enough to invoke the mercy rule.

Derek Lerman’s pitching kept DHS comfortably ahead, with Tyler Brown and Troy sealing things with an impressive double play.

Earlier in the month, Ryan Holgate had a big hit in each of the two losses to Franklin — 8-4 on April 6 and 20-5 on April 8.

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