The top-seeded Foothill girls lacrosse team crushed Santa Margarita 19-4 on Saturday at Segerstrom High School to advance to the Orange County championship game for the fourth time in five years. The Knights (17-1) will play St. Margaret’s on Wednesday at Newport Harbor High School for the OC championship.

Ashley Stokes (pictured left), Andie Pomeroy (pictured right) Brooke Williams and Peyton Puma each had three goals.

After the Knights cruised through their first two post-season games by scores of 18-4 and 18-8, many thought that the no. 4 Eagles would at least slow down the Knights but that was not the case.

Katelyn Murphy gave the Santa Margarta faithful early but short-lived reason for optimism when she put the game’s first point on the board after 2:25 had passed in the first half. After that goal, the Eagles were shut out the rest of the half.

Foothill scored three straight goals in the span of eight minutes thanks to two goals from Brooke Williams and one from Grace Cumming, giving them a 3-1 lead. After Santa Margarita went down a player, the Knights took advantage of it, as Maddie Fox scored a coast-to-coast goal igniting the Foothill fans and forcing an Eagles time out.

Misfortune started to strike the Eagles when Murphy picked up her second yellow card, disqualifying her from the game. The Knights continued to control offensive possession and pressured the Eagles on defense to disrupt their offensive rhythym.

Foothill led 14-1 until Molly Jacobson scored at the 17:43 mark of the second half to end Santa Margarita’s drought. But the deficit was too much for the Eagles to overcome t.

The Knights got scoring contributions from Elena Torres who had two goals while Fox, Ava Brand, Natalie Anderson, Grace Cumming and Taylor Puma each had one goal. Lily Kahn made six saves.