Manhasset wins its first LI title since 2018 in rematch against Bayport-Blue Point

That feeling of walking off the field with a loss in the Long Island Class C championship never sat right with the Manhasset girls lacrosse team. The players were determined to find themselves in that game again and right the wrong of last spring. And that’s exactly what happened Sunday afternoon.

Manhasset defeated Bayport-Blue Point, 8-6, in the girls lacrosse Long Island Class C championship at Stony Brook’s LaValle Stadium. The same two teams met in last year’s final, with Bayport-Blue Point exiting with a 6-5 victory.

“It definitely still stings and it did until now,” senior Alexis Morton said. “I think during this whole game, we knew we needed to come out on top because we knew last year we totally had the potential to.”

Manhasset (13-2) advances to play Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake in the state Class C semifinals at SUNY Cortland on Friday at 1 p.m. Manhasset won its first Long Island championship since 2018. That team went on to win the state Class B title.

Bayport-Blue Point (16-3) started fast, scoring the game’s first three goals to take a 3-0 lead with 9:26 left in the first half. Manhasset called timeout and quickly resettled, scoring three goals in 1:58 to tie the score at 3 with 6:18 left in the first half.

“These kids have the fight and that’s something where they never, ever, ever give up no matter what it says on the scoreboard,” coach Meghan Clarke said. “We play a type of lacrosse that whether we are up by three or down by three, we’re still playing Manhasset lacrosse and that’s what happened today.”

Morton scored two of her four goals during Manhasset’s offensive outburst late in the first half.

“She shows up,” Clarke said. “She’s just a kid that eats, breathes and sleeps lacrosse and today was no different. It’s almost automatic for her to step up in a game like this to kind of jump-start that attacking unit and once she started rolling, the rest of them do, too.”

Caitlin Barrett and Ashley Newman each added two goals. Bayport-Blue Point had six different goal scorers with nine players recording a point.

Manhasset trailed 4-3 at halftime but Newman and Barrett scored two goals in the first five minutes of the second half to give Manhasset its first lead of the contest.

Don’t expect much jubilation from Manhasset. At least not from Morton. The team wants that state title.

“I’m done celebrating,” Morton said. “I already want to play our next game.”