PETERBOROUGH — “The boys played hard; we were in it,” Coach Trent Weston said of the Kennett High boys’ lacrosse team after the Eagles lost a tough 7-5 game to ConVal in the opening round of the Division III tournament in Peterborough last Thursday.
The No. 7-seeded Cougars withstood everything the No. 10-ranked Eagles offered.
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