Cardinals cruise past PW

Upper Dublin scores first 6 goals in SOL American victory

Improvement was the focus for both the Upper Dublin and Plymouth Whitemarsh boys lacrosse teams after their matchup Thursday afternoon. Where they differed was in the timeframes.

The host Cardinals, who scored the first six goals in their SOL American Conference contest and built an 11-1 lead on the Colonials before eventually earning an 11-5 victory, are a veteran side out to quickly sharpen its performance ahead of a visiting three-time defending PIAA-3A champ Radnor.

“With spring break, a lot of guys were away, we had to break off the rust Monday and Tuesday,” UD sophomore attack Nate Brown said. “But overall, it’s been OK, it’s not what we want to be at cause we have Radnor on Saturday and we can’t make those mistakes.”

PW coach Ryan Bonnani, meanwhile, is looking farther down the road early in his second season with the Colonials.

“What the kids are seeing is it stings with not getting the W, right — everybody wants to win but from a coach’s perspective I’m building a program,” Bonnani said. “I love PW, I’m very happy for the opportunity to be here. I was at a very good school, Notre Dame Prep in New Jersey, that just like Upper Dublin where the expectations were very, very high.”

“So coming here I’m very happy to build this program and carry over what I had over there in a sense of some of what we were instilling but most importantly this is a marathon for us, it’s not a sprint.”

Brown paced Upper Dublin with a hat trick while Cameron Osborne and Kyle Spirt both scored twice for the Cardinals (21, 1-0), which picked up its second

MIKE CABREY — MEDIANEWS GROUP Upper Dublin’s Cameron Osborne, 3, is congratulated by Kyle Spirt, 7, after Osborne’s goal against Plymouth Whitemarsh on Thursday, April 4, 2024.