Our first loss of the season. The Varsity girls lost a heartbreaker last night to the New Hanover Cougars, 7-6, in what could have been the worst conditions I have watched lacrosse played. With the temperature in the mid-40’s and a rain, driven by 30-mph gusts, that moved sideways from North to the South, the girls fought valiantly but came up a little short. Number 3 played well, but the team struggled to control the ball, and they could not overcome the Cougars’ strong first half. The boys were not really challenged in their 14-1 win, but that will not be the case this Saturday when they face off against Middlecreek, one of the top teams in the state. Tonight, it’s all-girls play as the Topsail Lady Pirates take the field against Pinecrest, an out-of-conference juggernaut. Meanwhile, the Topsail Youth Lacrosse Middle School Girls (Number 4) square off in a bonus match just down the street. That concludes today’s lacrosse report. Now back to your regularly scheduled scrolling.
As a reminder, Lunch Box Quotes are notes I include in the kids’ lunches every day. Number 1 gets a text, but 2-4 get handwritten napkins.
Visual credits to: @ACC_National
Quotes: @arealmofwonder @LeoTollstoy @Gitana1369877 @Lovandfear
Quotes:
1. “Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
3. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.” – Theodore Roosevelt
4. “Bloom where you are planted.” — Saint Francis de Sales
Bonus Quote: “Let there be one soul with whom I may speak as freely as I speak in the silence of my own.” – Unknown
Source:
“Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.”
~ Fyodor DostoevskyÉtretat in the Rain (1886)
🎨 Claude Monet pic.twitter.com/TeCgsbClfI— Cian McCarthy (@arealmofwonder) March 12, 2026
— Leo Tolstoy Literature (@LeoTollstoy) February 19, 2026
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.”
– Theodore Roosevelt pic.twitter.com/0WyUoOumid
— American Conservation Coalition (@ACC_National) March 12, 2026
• “Bloom where you are planted.” — Saint Francis de Sales pic.twitter.com/yhfSZ3hPWB
— Gitana (@Gitana1369877) March 12, 2026
this! pic.twitter.com/zppru42Io8
— 🍂 (@Lovandfear) March 12, 2026