The Milton Lady Eagles Lacrosse Team, ranked No. 1 in the state in Class AAAAA with a record of 18-1-1,  showed Tuesday night why they are at the top by thrashing No. 5 ranked Walton 22-7 in the Class AAAAA Girls Semifinals. 

They now will battle Roswell on Saturday for the Class AAAAA State Championship. Walton ends their season with a record of 16-4.

Sophomore Lydia Cassada scored five goals and Junior Amanda Lockwood scored four to lead Milton's high-powered offense to the win over the Lady Raiders. Walton had absolutely no answer as to how to stop Milton. The Lady Eagles took off early and never looked back.

"The key to the game was how we started. We came out on fire, hitting our first six shots," Milton head coach Tim Godby said.

"They got the first three draws, but we were able to turn them over. We started getting draw possession, and we were just able to do whatever we wanted to do on offense tonight," Godby said.

The Lady Eagles hit the first of those six shots with just 1:55 into the match as Lydia Cassada took a pass from Amanda Lockwood and scored the first of her five first half goals.

Less then a minute later, Lockwood scored to make it 2-0 Milton.

Walton's Hannah Single scored the Lady Raiders' first goal of the match.

However, Milton answered immediately as Cassada scored her second goal, and the rout was on. The Lady Eagles scored 11 unanswered goals before Maddie Seiloff scored Walton's second goal of the game. Milton took a 14-2 lead into halftime.

In the second half, the Lady Eagles picked up right where they left off, outscoring the Lady Raiders. Annie Ruland scored the first two goals of the second half for Milton.

Though Walton scored some goals late in the game, the Lady Raiders were never able to stop the Lady Eagles' offense.

Milton went on to win 22-7 and earn a berth in the State Title game against Roswell on Saturday.

In addition to Cassada's five goals and Lockwood's four, Annie Ruland also had four goals for the Eagles. Junior Paige Winsness scored two goals. Sophomores Melissa Teel, Molly Garrigan and Anne Shenk each had one goal. Other goal scorers for the Lady Eagles were senior Francesca Mowry, freshmen McKenzie Lech and Maggie Degnan and junior Natalie Derajtys. Each of them had one goal.

For Walton, Hannah Single, Maddie Seiloff and Rachel Joseph each had two goals, and Chandler Tates scored one.