The Emmaus High School boys lacrosse team was unable to match the success of 2024 as it finished 2025 at 9-10 overall and 5-4 in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

The Hornets finished unbeaten in the league last year, but missed this year’s tournament, falling in the quarterfinal round 11-10 to Nazareth.

Head coach Justin Fuhrman saw lot of things he liked in this year’s team..

“Overall, the season had both highs and lows,” said Fuhrman. “The competition in the EPC gets better every year, and with the youth and injuries that we experienced this year I believe we did about as well as expected. As competitors we always want to outperform our own expectations, but these guys did an incredible job of stepping up when called upon.

“We played with much more depth this year than we did last year and it sets us up well for the upcoming offseason to try and improve. Qualifying for districts was the single most important thing we were able to accomplish this year.”

When asked about his favorite moment of the season, Fuhrman knew right away.

“Our overtime win over Southern Lehigh,” Fuhrman said. “One of our sophomores, Anthony Attar, had been struggling earlier in the year. He had come on a bit prior to the SL game but made an incredible individual effort clearing the ball in overtime and scored the game winning goal. After that he really took off with his confidence and playmaking and was a big part of some of the success later in the season.”

Emmaus will graduate a large class of 14, including Ben Anders, Reilly Bechtel, Tyler Carter, Gabe Chies, Alexei Collins, Reno Guastella, Max Lipski, Kaleb Mains, Finnley Neyhart, Bryan Pipines, Lewes Sarver, James Schauer, Jack Sullivan and Jewlien Torres. They made their mark on the program in their time.

“These seniors had a very difficult task this year,” said Fuhrman. “Coming off a 17-1 year, undefeated in the league, of course every senior group wants to continue to find that kind of success. As mentioned before, youth and injuries made that extremely difficult this year. However, our seniors never complained about younger players making mistakes or not understanding strategy we put in. They supported their teammates and we grew together into a very good team by the end of the year. We had a few highlights with them as well, Kaleb Mains scored his 100th goal of his career in the district game, and Jack Sullivan recorded 100-plus saves in the season as well.”

Mains led the attack with 51 goals and 13 assists. Chies finished with 25 goals and 20 assists. Alex Younker recorded 18 goals and 13 assists. Both Torres and Dylan Maloney tallied 16 goals with the latter adding 13 assists. Schaeur ended with 10 goals and two assists. Anthony Attar netted nine goals and Greyson Schmidt contributed seven. Collin Garrett won 140 faceoffs. Sullivan finished with 133 saves in net.

According to Fuhrman, there is at least one reason in why he is excited about next season.

“We played a ton of freshmen and sophomores in key roles including two as captains (Dylan Maloney 9th, Brady McKechnie 10th),” Fuhrman said. “With that invaluable experience, if our players truly commit to improving in the offseason we will be back to where we expect to be fighting for EPC and district titles next year.”