High school lacrosse: Woodford County rolls in district final to remain unbeaten
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- Woodford County remained unbeaten at 18-0 after winning the District 8 championship 19-4.
- Woodford and Lafayette advance to regionals and will face District 6 teams.
- In District 7, Sayre won the boys title and Henry Clay claimed the girls title.
Woodford County’s boys lacrosse team had played too well, beaten too many and made too much history this season to stop short in the District 8 championship game on Monday at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.
The undefeated No. 3 Yellow Jackets (18-0) conceded the game’s first goal to Lafayette, but soon found their stride on the way to a 19-4 victory that hit a running clock margin with 8:08 left in the third quarter.
No team outside of Louisville has been as dominant as Woodford County in 2026. The Yellow Jackets have an 11-10 win over No. 2 Trinity on May 4 to prove that. Woodford coach Tony Wilson wouldn’t have predicted being unbeaten at this stage, but he’ll take it.
“You have confidence, but you never know. You know, we’re dealing with high schoolers here. So any day they wake up, you don’t know what you’re going to get. And I feel like every day we’ve come with the right kind of energy,” Wilson said. “It feels great being undefeated. Now, we have to do it the rest of the way. We don’t have any more do-overs.”
Both Woodford County and Lafayette (14-4) advance to the regional portion of the lacrosse postseason and will face their counterparts from District 6 as the single elimination stage begins. Woodford hosts No. 8 North Oldham at 7 p.m. Wednesday as Lafayette travels to No. 4 South Oldham.
The win over Trinity was the first in program history for Woodford County and the first win over the Shamrocks by any Kentucky team not named St. Xavier in more than a decade of sanctioned and club play.
“That’s another milestone, right? We’re going to see them again.” said senior Cole Humston, who scored three goals and assisted on three others against Lafayette. “We just keep going on, right? They’ve seen us play. We’ve seen them play. It’s going to be a different game when we see them, but we’re ready. We’re prepared.”
Wilson and his players acknowledged there’s a danger their undefeated regular season and a win like the one over Shamrocks distract from the ultimate goal, a state championship, by offering too big a sense of accomplishment.
“It’s postseason now. We’re still undefeated, but we’re just leaving all that in the past,” Humston said. “We’re taking one game at a time all the way to the ‘ship.”
Being undefeated is nice, fellow senior Drew Sumner said, but it’s not everything. Sumner scored three goals with an assist against Lafayette.
“Just coming out with our guys every day and seeing the work we put in … It means a lot to us,” Sumner said. “(It helps) us keep pushing to get that victory.”
Humston recently topped 50 goals and has nearly 30 assists on the season. Although official stats are incomplete at this time, the Yellow Jackets feature five players with more than 35 goals each. Greyson Hodge, a junior, led the team in assists with 40 going into the postseason. He had a team-high five goals against Lafayette.
The undefeated regular season included wins over North Oldham and South Oldham, two of the teams in Woodford’s path to next week’s state semifinals at Great Crossing. If Woodford beats North Oldham on Wednesday, it hosts the winner of Lafayette and South Oldham on Saturday.
South Oldham ended Woodford’s season last year in the state semis. Wilson believes his team is ready to make another deep run.
“I feel like we’re poised. I think we definitely have the most dangerous offense, and our defense is more than capable,” Wilson said. “They’ve been standing out every single game. And Parker Ishmael, our goalie, he makes saves that we need him to, and sometimes he gets a few extra.”
Lexington Christian wins girls district title
Lexington Christian’s Mia Hester and Madeleine Eubank scored four goals each in the Eagles’ 10-3 win over Lexington Catholic as tournament host of the District 8 girls lacrosse championship on Monday.
“Over the last four games, we have gelled and we have decided that we are simply going to be a team. There’s no standout, no individual. We work together as a team,” LCA coach Tony Shackelton said. “Everything from the beginning, middle and the end was simply solid defense, solid offense and working together as a unit.”
The No. 11 Eagles (13-4) didn’t exist until three years ago, so LCA didn’t have the kind of program building many of its opponents enjoyed as a club sport before the KHSAA began sanctioning lacrosse championships last year.
Now, it has its first hardware for the school trophy case.
“Everything from here is nothing but a cherry on top of the sundae we already made,” Shackleton said.
The Eagles will host No. 12 North Oldham, the District 6 runner-up in the region semifinals at 7 p.m. Wednesday as No. 14 Lexington Catholic (12-6) travels to No. 8 Oldham County.
Sayre captures District 7 boys title
Sayre completed its clean sweep of its District 7 foes by taking down defending district champion Henry Clay 10-3 on Monday on the Blue Devils’ home field.
Will Moore led the No. 5 Spartans (15-2) with five goals.
“We got great defense from our poles, especially Paul Coppedge, who also had a goal and an assist,” Sayre coach Jon Simon said. “Fionn McKay held solid in goal all night.”
Sayre will host District 5 runner-up Ryle at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the region semis as No. 7 Henry Clay (11-6) travels to that district’s champion, Dixie Heights.
Henry Clay tops Sayre for District 7 girls title
Henry Clay’s girls lacrosse team took down defending District 7 champion Sayre by a score of 12-4 on Monday night at home.
Henry Clay coach Tony Hicks praised the leadership of senior midfielders Amelia and Audrey Webster and Vonnie Allen-Guy.
“Tonight was all about disciplined ball possession and hitting finesse shots,” Hicks said. “Our three senior middies ran this game with a great supporting defense and a patient supporting attack. We can’t wait to move on to regional play.”
No. 7 Henry Clay (15-4) will host No. 22 Ryle, the District 6 runner-up at 7 p.m. Wednesday as No. 13 Sayre (13-7) travels to that district’s champion, No. 17 Cooper.
This story was originally published May 12, 2026 at 8:10 AM.
