Cape Cod Tech Boys Lacrosse Earns Long-Awaited Win Streak

WEST BARNSTABLE – On a Monday and Tuesday in April 2022, the Cape Cod Tech boys lacrosse team picked up back-to-back early season wins. More than three years elapsed until Cape Tech again won consecutive games. 

The 2022 team would win twice more but in between streaks of defeats. The 2023 team went winless; the 2024 team won once. 

The 2025 Crusaders were coming right off a win over Westport as they traveled Friday to Cape Cod Community College to play Sturgis East. Cape Tech won 12-2, victorious in multiple games in a row for the first time since that April 2022 stretch.

A hard rain kicked up in the second half as the Crusaders crept towards their second straight win, their victory streak drought finally finding relief. 

“These guys need that,” second-year head coach Gibson St. John said. “I mean, being able to string a few together after having a team that’s slowly been growing over a couple of years, finally putting it together and seeing what they can do as a team has been just so uplifting for all these guys.” 

Midfielder Aidan Schafer was a freshman the last time Cape Tech had put together multiple wins. He’s now a senior, the only one on the team and thus also the only player to have been around in 2022, when the Crusaders last had a win streak.

“It's awesome,” he said. “We’re really starting to click together as a team.”

With the win, their third this year, Cape Tech has now surpassed their win total in 2023 and 2024 combined. That year-by-year climb is the result of players working hard and the team getting additional assistant coaches, according to St. John.

“We’re kind of putting it all together, and the players are really buying into that,” he said.

Schafer and sophomore Ryan Delaney led the scoring Friday with three goals each. 

“It was really intense, and it was pretty awesome to play in the rain,” Delaney said.

Sophomore Tanner Lebedevitch scored twice, and junior Talon Joia, junior Porter Anderson, junior Graham Silvestro and sophomore Charlie Fowler each added one apiece for Cape Tech. Sturgis East scored twice in the second quarter but was held goalless for the remainder of the game.

Schafer said the team had improved at passing on offense, and successfully moving the ball from defense to offense has also been a point of emphasis, according to Schafer and St. John.

“The quick passing, feeding, making a dodge and shooting off that dodge was a key point of emphasis,” St. John said. “So watching Aidan, Ryan and a few other guys, especially the younger guys, start to work on those dodges, feed to their teammates that are open — when we do that, we can win games.”

Indeed, the Crusaders are scoring far more this season than they have in past years. The team’s goal total in 2023 and 2024 combined was fewer than 60. Cape Tech this year hit the 80-goal mark Friday against Sturgis East, with games still left to play.

“It’s all a result of just people trusting others, and that’s so important for a lacrosse team,” St. John said. “You cannot win without using your teammates.”

That buy-in from players to the team and its culture is translating into wins.

“We’re just building a program again,” St. John said.