Park City High School beats East in home lacrosse game 14-6

Park City wins Lacrosse 14 - 6 over East at home. Photo: TownLift // Michele Roepke

PARK CITY, Utah — The Boys Varsity Lacrosse Team from Park City High School won their game on Wednesday night at Quinn’s Junction field against East High from Salt Lake City with a resounding final score of 14 – 6.

Park City is now six and two overall and first in the region.

This was a region game with 11 assists by the Miners and 10 shots on goal. Most sports at Park City High are 4A, while Lacrosse is 5A in the UHSAA (Utah High School Athletic Association).

In this conference game against the East Leopards, Miners Coach Mike Persky led his players to score four points in the first quarter, then another four in the second. They picked up the pace, scoring five times in Q3, and even though the Miners slowed down a bit, scoring once in the fourth and final quarter as the Leopards attempted a comeback, East’s effort was too little, too late.

Video taken during JV game held right before.

Junior Miner Henry Alnwick, #15, not only leads his team in goals, adding two to his season stats yesterday, but also in assists. His highlighted performance joins senior goalkeeper Max Gordon, who wears number 24 for Park City, a Team leader in minutes tending goal, and his 39 saves, as compared to the national average of 18.

Chris Infurchia, a sophomore born and raised in Park City, attended Parley’s Park Elementary School. The former football player is now on the Varsity Lacrosse Team, playing LSM (Long Stick Midfield) and Close Defender. “The season so far has been pretty great,” He told TownLift. “Other than our trip out to Colorado this season, we haven’t lost a single game overall. The roster is looking great, defense is super stacked.” This year, they’ve got a bunch of seniors playing, with three college commits: Tommy Fannon, Harper Brent, and goalie Gordon.

Infurchia had a lower limb injury, which kept him on the sidelines for this game as he’s actively working with Chris Antinori and other medical professionals on his healing journey, but it didn’t keep him from cheering his teammates on from the bench. He got the injury in Colorado, where the team played, but lost the game. When asked if he was bummed not to be able to ski either of these weeks, he chuckled and said that, with the snowpack as low as it was in town, if he needed to be off the snow for any season, this one was probably it.

Yes, if you’re thinking that the Miners must be pretty good to send a High School team to another state to play, indeed, appearing in every postseason tournament since Lacrosse has been participated in, the Miners are such prolific high-performers that they need to look outside the state to play up to their level of skill.

Antinori spoke with TownLift between quarters from the sideline in his role as the Park City High School/Intermountain Health Athletic Trainer. He explained that the hierarchical decision-making matrix for which athletic endeavors are covered is an objective, not a subjective, one. It goes: collision, contact, non-contact, varsity, JV, sophomores, freshmen, in season, out of season.

Those action designations are set, enforced, and evolved by entities, including the National Athletic Trainers Association, which works in conjunction with others such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and USA Lacrosse. They collaborate with the National Federation of State High School Associations.

Park City High School has hired an additional athletic trainer, Hanna Lurie, for all sports this year. She graduated from the University of Utah last year and just like Antinori, is a welcome Miner member, which the student-athletes and parents enjoy having at events. It simply goes towards the goal of the PCHS Athletic Department providing “The best service and care for the athletes participating in the sports,” said Antinori.

Next up for Park City is Brighton High School in a non-region, away game the night of April 3.

Lacrosse will be a new sport contested at the LA 2028 Olympics, returning to the Program after over a hundred years’ absence, having been played by a handful of countries at a handful of Olympics.