Franklin Regional girls lacrosse earned its third consecutive section crown last week with a convincing 20-7 win over second place Latrobe.

It was the 29th straight section win for FR.

The Lady Panthers (11-5, 9-0) jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the first 1:12 with goals by Jillian Bonaroti and two by Lizzy Pavone.

But the Latrobe Wildcats responded with two of their own.

Bonaroti and Pavone each netted another before Latrobe answered to cut the lead to 5-3 with 15:33 remaining in the half.

The Lady Panthers then ran off seven of the next eight goals of the game to lead at halftime, 12-4.

FR goals were scored by Hillary Hagen (2), Pavone, Bonaroti, Manny Hill, Ali Bortot and Kayla Colaizzi.

The Lady Panthers continued to play in rhythm in the second half as Bortot, Abby Ondeck, Hagen and Pavone each scored to extend the lead to 17-4.

To finish out the game, Kara Jacobs had two markers along with one each for Bonaroti and Hill. Pavone chipped in with four assists to add to her five goals.

Kayla Platt scooped up five ground balls, and goalie Kristen Sandness recorded 11 saves and started multiple fast break opportunities.

The defense was anchored by Kak Segiel, Emily Byers, Grace Newman, Kelli Armstrong, Kelsey Barner and Ali Obradovich.

Senior recognition

Twelve seniors were recognized Tuesday night as part of senior night festivities.

Many of the players have been involved with FR lacrosse for the past seven years.

• Hagen, senior captain and midfielder, is headed to the University of Wisconsin in Madison

• Pavone, a senior captain and attack player, is headed to the University of Colorado in Boulder as a chemical engineering major and lacrosse player.

• Byers, a senior defender and captain, will play at Washington & Jefferson College.

Majoring in biology with a minor in music, she plans to go on to medical school.

• Bonaroti, a senior captain and midfielder, is headed to the University of Pittsburgh to major in biomedical engineering in the honors program and will continue her lacrosse career.

• Bortot, an attacker, will attend the University of Pittsburgh and major in political science with a minor in urban studies.

• Ondeck will study engineering at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute of Technology.

• Jacobs chose to continue her swimming career at Wittenberg University next fall while she enters a major in business.

• Colaizzi will attend Savannah College of Art and Design to major in advertising design and minor in fashion design.

• Segiel is headed to Allegheny College to major in biology and will continue her swimming career.

• Maggie Stuart will attend Penn State University's Smeal Business School in the fall, majoring in marketing and business communications.

• Jillian Ackman will be attending Carnegie Mellon University as an architecture major.

She is one of only 50 architecture majors accepted into this exclusive program.

• Sandness is planning to study nuclear engineering and foreign language studies at St. Olaf University.

-- Submitted information