Yesterday, in the northeast of Pennsylvania, there were a few games that were disputed for about half an hour along route 100.
Both games contain some of the best talent that American Scholastic Field Hockey has to offer, including the current number 1 team in the Topofthecircle.com Top 10, and the team that ended at number 1 in the Topofthecircle.com Top 10 a year ago.
Strangely enough, both teams lost, and it cost extraordinary goals that were confirmed by effort and skills – Golazos – to do this.
In the morning game, Emmaus (Pa.), a loaded side with unfinished business from a year ago, took on a Downingtown (Pa.) West side which is a contender for PIAA District 1 Class AAA honors thanks to a number of hard-working players following on from a successful period in the late 2010s when they Had Stars Romea and Ciana Ricciardo, Who Both Played at North Carolina.
“In reality,” said Whippets coach Courtney Macpherson, “I came up after they graduated, so they did all this themselves.”
“This,” it turned out, was a victory over Emmaus, this week’s number 1 team in the top of the Circle.com Top 10. The Whippets had taken an early lead just to see a reaction from the Hornets to deliver the game. Emmaus insisted on the victory in the fourth quarter, held the ball for large parts of the last term and scored almost a few deflections. Downington -goalkeeper Grace Grace Goodman, however, had an excellent competition and stopped 17 from the 18 -shot attempts by Emmaus.
That overtime, which saw a penalty corner in the 63rd minute. During the piece, the ball was sent from the Left Insert Hash to the right wing, where it was passed on at about 10 meters from Doel where Scarlett Wood was set up for a dragflick.
Golazo!
These two schools have a bit of a history between each other. In 1997, Emmaus Downington High School defeated 1-0 in the state final, about five years before the school district divided between East and West campuses. And there could be more history in the State Tournament later this year.
In the afternoon game yesterday of the comment, Malvern Villa Maria (Pa.) Saw at Pottstown Hill School (Pa.). A year ago, in perhaps the most expected Scholastic Field Hockey game of the season, Hill’s Senior-Dominated Line-Up Villa Maria 5-0.
Yesterday the fortune was completely reversed, when the hurricanes stepped early and won 3-0.
Senior attacker Caitlin Connell, as her habit is, led the villa attack with a brace, but it was her goal of the fourth quarter that was a thing of Brilliance. Connell took a pass from Sadie Niewinski, drove through the last third part, dribbled around two rams and, despite a tight corner of the left wing, wrote it through the posts and HIT -his network.
Golazo!
“This year we came back with more a drive to win,” said Connell. “Especially with the fact that we have not won a state championship; games like these have more meaning.
Among the heroines yesterday for Villa Maria was Senior Jack Shaw, who was apparently everywhere in the center of the park, every time she won the ball, she did something positive with it.
The hockey game has seen many games that need extraordinary efforts to determine the result. And because the difference between individuals and teams is defined with finer and finer margins, that will continue.
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