Sydnor lifts Radnor to crucial win

Life on the bubble is never really all that fun.

Radnor’s field hockey team is all too familiar with that. The Raiders snuck into last season’s District One tournament as the No. 25 seed, but were ousted in the first round.

And this year, in coach Angel DiRocco’s last season, Radnor’s been living on the edge. The Raiders knew heading into Monday’s game two games under .500 that they’d need to win out to even have a shot for districts.

One down, one to go for Radnor. Lydia Sydnor dished out four assists — three of them on Lexi Kenneally goals — and scored twice to lead the Raiders to a 7-1 Central League rout of Penncrest.

“We’ve been down in the dumps recently as a whole team,’ said Sydnor, a junior Michigan verbal. “Even before the game, all the captains and DiRocco said, ‘ let’s just pick it up,’ this game. It’s the game before (Tuesday’s) Senior Night, so let’s just get back in the swing of things.’

Sydnor made sure of that when she set up Katie Quinn’s deflection goal 23 seconds into the game and added the game-winning goal nearly eight minutes after Penncrest’s Aliya Kalman knotted things up at 1.

Quinn later added another goal for Radnor (8-9-0, 6-4-0 Central League), while Ashley Gubernick stopped two shots. Freshman goalie