McCann Tech Girls Win Second Straight
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Winning is getting to be a habit for the Hornets.
Taylor Ziemba had a hat trick, and Emily Raschdorf made 16 saves Friday to lead the McCann Tech girls lacrosse team to an 8-4 win over Monson.
After going two full seasons and most of the 2025 campaign without a victory, the Hornets picked up the first win in the history of their program on Thursday.
And they followed that up 24 hours later by dominating the Mustangs, a team that handed the Hornets a 15-2 setback in McCann Tech’s third game of the season one month earlier.
“Definitely a huge jump,” Raschdorf said of the two-game winning streak. “We’ve been doing very, very well working as a team. We’re finally starting to come together.
“This is our program’s second win. I’m just really happy overall for all our girls. We’re all happy.”
McCann Tech coach Christian Chenail, who has led the varsity program for all three years of its existence, agreed that the confidence boost from Thursday’s Senior Day win over Smith Vocational could have played a role in Friday’s encore.
“We’ve been looking forward to this week with some of the matchups that are gonna be out there,” he said. “But I think for the girls who’ve been in the program, the girls who are new to the program – to see that winning is very much doable as long as we put our pieces together and work as a group, that definitely helped coming into today.”
After a slow start to the game offensively, McCann Tech scored three times in the last five minutes of the first quarter.
Jordyn Lloyd got things started, and Gabby Wells-Vidal scored with an assist from Carlee Roberts less than two minutes later.
With one second left on the clock, McCann Tech was awarded a free position, and Ziemba cashed in the opportunity as time expired to put her team up by three goals.
She then scored the first goal of the second quarter to make it a 4-0 lead before Nevaeh Chiacchia (three goals) got Monson on the board midway through the second.
Lloyd and Wells-Vidal each added a goal before half-time, and an apparent Monson tally was taken off the board due to a crease violation to send McCann Tech into half-time up, 6-1.
Madison Sniezek scored in a low-scoring third quarter that ended in a 7-2 McCann Tech lead.
The Mustangs made things a little more interesting when Chiacchia scored with 7 minutes, 24 seconds on the clock to make a three-goal margin at 7-4, but Ziemba’s final goal on a free position in the final minute gave McCann Tech the largest winning margin in program history: four goals.
Chenail said there were a lot of reasons for the turnaround from the first game against Monson.
“It was a cold day, we were learning, we got into some penalty trouble and lost some players during that game,” he said. “That definitely didn’t help. But transition-wise, we’re getting a lot more comfortable with it, seeing the passes, seeing the open player, which we were having trouble with then. We were trying to do it with our feet at that point.
“Now, we’re seeing it and stepping up across the board with a lot of different things.”
McCann Tech (2-12) is back in action on Monday when it hosts Lee.
Photos from this game to come.