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By Brian Pitts
Enterprise Record

Kayden Richardson, a sophomore for Davie’s girls lacrosse team, proved her immense worth again with a huge performance in a 9-7 home win over North Davidson on March 27.
The score was 7-7 before Richardson strutted her stuff when it mattered most. After her fifth and sixth goals, Davie was a high-fiving winner.
“They were marking off Lyndsay (Davis), and they were trying to mark off Kayden, but Kayden is just a phenomenal player and was getting around them,” coach Haley Hines said.
Richardson did her clutch work in the last five minutes.
“My assistant coach (Brittany Lloyd) overheard them say they were coming after No. 11, which is Kayden,” Hines said. “We told her: ‘They are going to triple you.’ And she had the prettiest play. She got the draw control, ran it down and had a wide open shot. They left her lane wide open and she scored within six seconds of getting the draw. They were so mad. She scored the two goals to get us that 9-7 lead.”
Besides all the goals, Richardson finished with eight ground balls, six draw controls and left the game with a team-high 19 goals on the season.
“They shut Lyndsay and Kimber (Holston) down, and Kayden was the only one that could really get around them,” Hines said. “Kayden was definitely the rock star of that game.”
Lila Moore had two goals and Davis had one. The same duo had Davie’s two assists. To this point, all three of Davie’s wins were exciting games decided by one or two goals.
“In other games, we get super excited and can’t slow the ball down, and that’s how East Forsyth started coming back a little bit (in a 10-9 win on March 21),” Hines said. “To see them actually stall them out and hold onto the ball and pass it around, it was so good to see them evolve in a way we haven’t done before.”
Davie 12, Tabor 5
More positive momentum came the next day when Davie burned Mt. Tabor on the road.
Richardson (three), Davis (two) and Holston (two) deposited multiple goals as Davie improved to 4-3 overall and 2-2 in the CPC. Adding one goal each were Mallory Peck, Moore, Bethany Jacobs, Olivia Howard and Madison Daugherty. Richardson had two assists and Davis had one.
Notes: The first game of the week was a 22-7 home loss to Reagan on March 25. Davis and Richardson had three and two goals, respectively. Moore, Holston and Gracie Shore had one. Peck and Richardson had the team’s two assists.