Walker (goals), Morgan (assists) set all-time school records in Woodstown’s 16-2 lacrosse rout of Nottingham
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
TRENTON – There haven’t been many things in Delaney Walker’s life that have kept her on pins and needles as much as this last week in anticipation of her piece of history.
The Woodstown senior was on the cusp of becoming the girls lacrosse program’s all-time leading goal scorer, but the game had to get here.
One scheduled game was called off. A replacement game was found, but it was postponed by the weather. Then there was the prom and then Memorial Day weekend.
When the game finally arrived Tuesday, Walker wasted little time making history. She scored three of her five goals during the Wolverines’ 16-2 rout of Nottingham in the first quarter to set the goal-scoring record. She broke the mark of 236, set by current Woodstown assistant Abby Evans between 2015 and 2018.
Walker now has 239 career goals with at least one South Jersey Group I playoff game in front of her.
“Oh my God, it was painful,” she said of her week of waiting. “I had prom weekend (where she was a member of the Prom Court), so I had a lot of fun,, but that milestone was still in the back of my head. Today in school I was so excited to leave my eighth period class and go on the bus. And with the bus ride being an hour and 15 minutes that was hard too.”
Walker tied the record with her second goal after the Wolverines won a draw and raced all the way down the field to score. She broke the record with about four minutes left in the quarter when she cut in towards the goal and fired a high shot into the cage.
“I can breathe now,” she said. “Now that it’s here it just means I can accomplish my goals, but I have to keep working. It’s not the end.”
The players surrounded her with a group hug and then she shared a moment with the former record holder.
“I told her I was sorry (to have broken her record),” Walker said.
Ironically, when she got in her car to drive home from the trip she noticed the last three digits on the odometer: 2-3-8.
“That’s like a sign from God,” she said.
The UMass-Lowell signee needed 68 goals coming into the season to break Evans’ record. She put a big dent in it with a career-high 12 in her previous game against Haddon Heights.
“At the start of the season the record was really like messing with my head a little bit,” she admitted. “I really didn’t think I was going to get it until Haddon Heights came around and I dropped out 10 and I was like, OK, now it’s here.”
Walker wasn’t the only record-setting Wolverine in the game. When Emma Morgan assisted of Walker’s record-breaking goal, she became the Wolverines’ all-time assist leader. Morgan has been there for Walker a lot, most notably assisting on her 100th and 200th career goals.
“We work really well together,” she said. “It was good to share that with her.”
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