Every day.

Every practice.

Every day and every game, the Lakeridge boys lacrosse team has worked.

The Pacers, who fell to Jesuit in the 2024 Oregon High School Lacrosse Association state championship game, worked to dominate their non-league schedule, worked to dominate the Three Rivers League and now – on the cusp of the 2025 OHSLA playoffs – are ready to work again.

“We’ve been working our tails off at practice every single day. Working day in and day out, watching film, just getting prepared for the next game every single day,” said Lakeridge senior defender Tristan Martin. “It’s next practice, next moment you see the field — everyone’s getting ready. Everyone’s super focused on our end goal and just playing one game at a time.”

“I think we just need to take it one step at a time, honestly,” said Pacer junior attack Jacen Wilber. “And we always have to work hard in practice. For me and the whole team out here, the whole goal is to make it to the state championship and we can’t do that without taking it one game at a time.”

The results have been nothing short of dramatic. Lakeridge went 12-1 in its tough-as-nails non-league schedule, with the Pacers’ lone loss an 11-8 setback to Mercer Island, Washington, back on April 4.

Lakeridge was dynamite during the powerful Three Rivers League season, too, going unbeaten against the TRL and outscoring its opponents by an average of 16-1, recording three shutouts and allowing single goals in two other games.

In total, Lakeridge has gone 17-1 overall, carries a 15-game winning streak and has outscored its opponents 260-45.

The 2025 Pacers are led by its quartet of team captains – Martin, senior midfielder Kellen Aird, senior goalie Nolan Darcy and junior midfielder Beckett Godfrey – and a bunch of returning all-TRL players.

That group of all-leaguers includes: senior attack Davis Reardon; senior midfielder Sean McCarty; senior defender Kelley Lamb; senior defender Charley Nauheim; Wilber; senior midfielder Charlie Coyne; senior faceoff specialist Cash Groves; and senior defender Ryan Wallace.

“We have great leadership from our large senior class,” said Lakeridge coach Curt Sheinin. “Our defense has been outstanding and our offense has been (even) more productive than last year’s team that lost in the finals.”

Next up, the Pacers – currently second in the Oregon LaxNumbers rankings – will open the OHSLA state playoffs and begin pursuit of their first championship since 2013.

Lakeridge’s players say they know what it will take to get over the top – including getting past top-seeded Jesuit, the reigning state champion.

“All of these guys have been together for such a long time,” Wilber said. “I know these guys have played together since (Lake Oswego Youth Lacrosse) and I think we just have that connection that some teams don’t have. If we can just keep our offense moving and keep our heads up and just play well on offense, I think we’ll give people a lot of problems.”

“Everyone’s so competitive at practice, we’re forcing each other to watch film, forcing each other to get better every single day and (we just need to) keep doing that,” Martin said. “We’ve seen so much improvement and it’s just going to keep going from there. The key is just staying together as a team. If we keep doing what we’re doing, keep pushing ourselves at practice and taking it one game at a time, one practice at a time, it’ll keep coming our way.”