Farmingdale Dalers girls lacrosse team tips scale on talent

Farmingdale girls lacrosse coach Melanie Peck has been waiting for this moment for years.

“We’re not young anymore,” she said.

No, those players who gained experience, and sometimes took their lumps, are now veterans, and 10 starters return from a squad that went 5-12 last year and lost to rival Massapequa in the Nassau Class A semifinals.

“We really have so much talent, and this talent can really hopefully take us to what our ultimate goal is, which is to win the county champions this year,” Peck said.

It’s been seven years since the Dalers won a county title, their 16th in program history. Her group is a contender this year after playing together for multiple years.

“Now they’re really starting to figure out each other’s tendencies, where each person’s going to be, how this person cuts, the moves this person likes,” Peck said. “Now they’re moving more as a unit versus individual players.”

Leading the way for the Dalers, already off to a 2-0 start, is junior midfielder Regan O’Connor. The Maryland commit, who is a true two-way threat, shuts things down defensively and has been the team’s second leading scorer for two straight years.

Fellow junior Juliann Brzeski is the top attacker. The Stony Brook commit not only has a rocket for a shot, but she sees the field well, while senior Jessica Reo is the quarterback from behind the cage.

Junior Megan Caputo is steady in the cage, with the UMass commit making the saves she is supposed to and the ones she’s not.

In front of Caputo are KaiLee Smith, a senior on the elbow who is the voice of the Dalers defense, junior Bianca Estevez, a Barry University commit who is the crease defender, and Emma Lembo, an aggressive sophomore who intercepts passes and raises the energy level.

Meanwhile, freshman Molly McNamara will take the majority of draws and brings similar attributes as O’Connor on a team ready to make a big jump this spring.

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