Tim Godby had never coached a lacrosse game when he was asked to take over the Milton Eagles' girls' varsity lacrosse program four years ago.

Olivia Hatfield, Milton's goalkeeper, had never played a lacrosse game, nor seen a lacrosse stick, before she attended her first practice back in winter 2005.

And like Hatfield, Natalie Hill and Sarah Michel were also freshmen when they became members of the Eagles' varsity lacrosse squad that same year. None could fathom what they and five other senior teammates would accomplish over the course of the next four years.

In all, Milton's eight seniors will forever remember their four state lacrosse girls' state championships. The Eagles made it four straight with their 8-5 victory over the visiting Westminster Wildcats Saturday.

"To me, lacrosse is game of X's and O's, just like basketball," Godby said. "So it was an easy transition for me when I took over a program a year after we reached the final four. At our first practice, I told the players that we were going to work hard and we are here to win. I didn't imagine us though winning four straight at the time."

Hill, Michel and fellow seniors Susannah Hardy and Annelise Mowry staked the Eagles to a 4-1 lead.

The Eagles (17-5) gave notice that, despite the impending loss of eight seniors to graduation, winning a fifth straight championships is not unthinkable. The ones who will undertake that bid, sophomores Allie Ware and Marissa Hardy, scored the next three Milton goals.

Ware's first of two goals gave the Eagles a 5-2 halftime lead. It was 6-3 when she scored her second goal. Mowry made it 7-3.

"That three-goal lead they built was too much for us to overcome," said Jay Watts, Westminister's girls' lacrosse coach for the past 10 years.

The Wildcats' only lead came on Milly Mcadam's first of three goals early in the first half.

"I knew we had something special here," said Hill, who scored the Eagles' first goal. "We had a new coach, new leaders. We knew what we had to do to become champions the last four years."