{"id":194440,"date":"2026-02-26T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194440\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:48:07","slug":"wilson-cruises-to-moore-league-win-over-lakewood-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194440\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Cruises To Moore League Win Over Lakewood \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

The562\u2019s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Long Beach Wilson girls\u2019 lacrosse team knows what it takes to win the Moore League title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bruins continued to prove that on Wednesday as they went on the road and defeated Lakewood 16-1 to open league play and take their first step to repeating as champs and winning for the fourth time in five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seniors Megan Ligenza and Amelia Nulty led the way as they each scored four goals in a dominating team performance as Wilson had eight Bruins score.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came out strong,\u201d Nulty said. \u201cFirst quarter was a little bit slower, but we picked it up in the end and I\u2019m really happy with our win. I think we\u2019ll have a good shot this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lancers came out looking to go shot-for-shot with the Bruins and Nori Vivao tied the game 1-1 in the first when she launched a shot from 10-yards out that flew past the Bruins\u2019 goalkeeper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, that\u2019s when Wilson started to lock in defensively and a Charlotte Forman goal started a run for the Bruins as they took a 3-1 lead after the first quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bruins continued that into the second as four Bruins scored including Nulty who scored her second as Wilson took a 7-1 lead at halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to prepare our team for a long season,\u201d Wilson coach Vic Escoto said of his team\u2019s overall performance. \u201cWe see each team twice and everybody\u2019s running and gunning for us. The Team knows that and knows that teams are going to be a little more polished and they\u2019re ready to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nulty led the Bruins to start the third quarter as they scored six in the frame to take a 13-1 lead. Ligenza scored three goals in the second half to lead the team. Wilson went on a 13-0 run after the first quarter to complete a dominating win.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, our team always in the first quarter \u2013 we just have to get our bearings around us,\u201d Ligenza said of the Bruins\u2019 slow start. \u201cThen we always come in hard in the second quarter and we have the best coach ever who really energizes us and he has the best positivity ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Lakewood, coach Fernando Viramontes was proud of how his team fought in the first to give them an idea of what they\u2019ll need to do moving forward in league action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ll be in better positions,\u201d Viramontes said. \u201cAnd I think if Vivao can keep learning how to take more shots and lead on offense \u2013 I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s going to be able to block that shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson will be back in action next Tuesday when they continue league action against Downey and Lakewood will be back at home to take on Irvine on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s coverage of Lakewood Athletics is sponsored by J.P. Crawford, Class of 2013. The562\u2019s coverage of Long Beach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-194440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}