The Eastport-South Manor girls lacrosse team finished 8-6 last season in Suffolk's Division II and was the sixth-seeded team in the Class B playoffs last season. This year, ESM is off to a hot start behind sophomore standout Tara Gerstacker, who has 11 goals in the team's first two games, both wins.
Gerstacker (a captain) was an All-County player as a freshman, and is part of a great 1-2 punch with junior Natalie Lieberman, who has 10 goals and five assists thus far.
Granted, ESM's first two wins were against Longwood, a sub-par Division I team, and Mount Sinai, who made the Class C final last year, but went just 6-8 in Division II last season.
Still, it's a nice start for this young program, which has only three seniors on its roster. So look out for the Baby Sharks in the coming weeks.