LAKEWOOD >> Fairview boys lacrosse coach Matthew Kelley said his program has felt “cursed” at Trailblazer Stadium for a while now.

The home site for Jefferson County lacrosse programs had been a place of so many recent struggles for the Knights. And it threatened again with his team scheduled for three games in five days there this past week.

But this time it played out differently. The Class 5A No. 8 Knights followed up tight wins — beating 4A No. 4 Dakota Ridge in overtime Monday, then 5A No. 15 Chatfield on Wednesday — with a dominant, 16-9, victory over 17th-ranked Columbine on Friday night.

Curse, be gone.

“The first two games this week, we had really come out slow,” Kelley said, noting it could have possibly been attributed to the lack of warmup time his team had for the late game of a doubleheader. “We made a real big emphasis today to make sure we were locked-in and dialed-in from the start.”

The Knights (6-2), who’d trailed in each of the other wins of the week, asserted their will from the get-go against the Rebels (5-4).

Kai Modica led the way with nine points — four goals and five assists — as an admittedly physically tired Fairview team didn’t show it, answering everything the Rebels, and Trailblazer Stadium, threw its way.

The knockout probably came as early as the second quarter, when their high-octane offense scored six straight to push out to a 10-3 halftime lead. Modica helped make sure of it early in the third as he scored and had two assists to fuel another offensive spurt that, for all purposes, sealed things.

The win ended Fairview’s streak of recent trouble against Columbine, which beat the Knights in each of the past three years while allowing just 10 combined goals during it. The 16 goals for Fairview was just the fourth time in 14 seasons the Rebels had allowed 16 or more in a game.

“The chemistry on this team is really good. It’s been better than it has been the last two years, our best year yet,” said Modica, who now has 25 goals and 15 assists this season. “I think that can take us really far this year. We saw that this week. This was the week we really found out what kind of team we are. And it feels good.”

The Knights are back home Wednesday to face Mountain Range.

Three days after that — April 19 — they host Monarch.