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Busy girls sports week kicks off with lacrosse rematch

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Dialog reporter
With snow a distant memory – for now – girls high school sports goes about its business this week, with a few makeups already on the schedule. Lacrosse powerhouse Cape Henlopen makes its lone trip north of the canal to open the week’s festivities.
Softball
Tuesday
Mount Pleasant at Archmere, 3:45 p.m.
A.I. DuPont at St. Elizabeth, 3:45 p.m. at Canby Park
Ss. Peter and Paul at Delmarva Christian, 4 p.m.
Design Lab at St. Mark’s, 4 p.m.
Wednesday
Padua at Appoquinimink, 4 p.m. Padua will have a new look in the circle and behind the plate, and the No. 9 Pandas have just two seniors on the roster.
Delcastle at St. Mark’s, 4 p.m.
Mount Pleasant at St. Thomas More, 4 p.m.
 
Lacrosse
Monday
Cape Henlopen (1-0) at Ursuline, 3:45 p.m. The Vikings are the defending state champions and a perennial powerhouse. They make the trip north to meet the Raiders. For Ursuline, it’s the team’s second consecutive game against Cape; the Vikings defeated the Raiders in last season’s tournament semifinal round.
Padua at Conrad, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday
St. Thomas More at Christiana, 3:45 p.m.
Archmere (1-0) at Delaware Military Academy, 3:45 p.m. at Kirkwood Soccer Club.
Kent Island at Ss. Peter and Paul, 4 p.m.
Padua at Middletown, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday
Hodgson at St. Thomas More, 4 p.m.
 
Soccer
Monday
St. Mark’s at Middletown, 3:30 p.m. St. Mark’s, after having its first two games postponed because of weather, opens on the road against the defending Division I state champion.
A.I. DuPont at St. Elizabeth, 3:45 p.m. at Kirkwood Soccer Club.
Lake Forest (1-0) at Ursuline, 3:45 p.m. The Raiders open the season as the sixth-ranked team in Division II. They defeated Lake, 2-0, last year, but the Spartans opened 2018 with a 7-0 win at Milford on Saturday.
Tuesday
Padua vs. Concord, 3:30 p.m. at Hockessin Soccer Club. The Pandas and Raiders had to push this game back four days and move it from Brandywine Hundred to Hockessin to get it in because of wet fields at Concord. Padua opens the season as the top-ranked team in Division I with just four seniors on the roster, while Concord checks in at No. 10. This is the first time the teams have met since the 2015 state tournament.
Wednesday
Archmere at Delaware Military Academy, 3:45 p.m. at Kirkwood Soccer Club. This top-five battle pits No. 4 Archmere against No. 5 DMA. These teams finished with identical 9-5-1 regular-season records last year, although the Auks took the head-to-head matchup, 1-0.
St. Elizabeth at St. Mark’s, 3:45 p.m.
Middletown at Ursuline, 3:45 p.m.