Despite a threegame winning streak, the Central boys lacrosse team is not quite living up to its own expectations.

The Little Green knocked off West on Thursday, April 30, to improve to 5-3, but the five wins have come against teams at the bottom of the Division I standings.

“Right now we’re middle of the pack, which is not where we anticipated being at the beginning of the year,” said head coach Bill Lawson following a 14-1 victory over the Blue Knights. “We need to improve a lot.”

Hooksett resident Justin Colvin scored four goals, and Billy Lawson piled up a hat trick and two assists in the win over West, which is 1-4 on the year.

The Little Green have outscored Salem, Memorial, Nashua North, Nashua South and West by a combined 65-9 in its five wins, but those teams have only four wins among them.

Two of Central’s losses have come against undefeated Pinkerton and Bishop Guertin.

“We weren’t seeing the slides on defense (against West) that we’ll normally see,” said the Little Green mentor. “They didn’t have a real sustained offense, so it is kind of hard to gauge where we are at in a game like that. Any win is a confidence boost, but we don’t want to read too much into it.”

Tommy Hobbs was dominating on faceoffs against the Blue Knights, and Marc Perroni continued to pace the offense, scoring two goals and dishing out two assists.

Lawson said his team needs to improve its stick skills and work on becoming more physical if it wants to make a run in the playoffs.

The next three games for the Little Green come against Concord, Hanover and Exeter, all teams above .500 in the early going.