Two with Monongah ties in state lacrosse title game

Fairmont West’s girls'  lacrosse team beat George Washington 11-9 Tuesday at East-West

Stadium in Fairmont.

The Lady Polar Bears will play Morgantown's  for the state lacrosse title at East-West  Stadium at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 21. University beat Morgantown, 6-2, in the other state semifinal.

Capital will meet Spring Hill at 4 p.m. for the state boys lacrosse title.
 Renzy Cochran and Sydney Michalski, both with Monongah connections, are on the team.

Renzy, daughter of Ann Marie Preolitti Cochran Parsons and the late Larry Alan Cochran and stepdaughter of Jeff Parsons, is a granddaughter of Monongah High graduates Renzy Fazio and Frances Olesky Fazio, both Class of 1937, who owned and ran Fazio’s Grocery on Jackson Street in Monongah for decades.

Letta Louise Cochran was Renzy’s other grandmother.

Renzy plans to study biomedical engineering at WVU.

Sydney is the daughter of Marion County Parks and Recreation Comission executive director Tony Michalski and Holly Turkett Michalski. Tony’s parents are Mike Michalski, Class of 1969, and Jane Sauro Michalski.

Mike’s parents are Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949, who lives in Monongah. Ramona is the widow of Frank Michalski, at Monongah with the Class of 1949. That makes Ramona and Frank Sydney’s great-grandparents.

 The Fairmont Senior team dedicated the season to senior Kayla Decker, who died in a motorcycle accident in September. Kayla’s grandparents are Arlene Marteney Decker Edgell, Class of 1952, and Okey Edgell, Class of 1944.