I have always liked to tell the stories of field hockey where there are significant differences between the schools from which the two teams attract their students.
The easy are cross-town rivals or those who come from the same school district. Place a “west” at the end of one school name and an “east” at the end of the other? Boom, direct story.
Over the years you will receive school districts that are traced from school districts such as cellitosis. For example, take what happened with the Princeton (NJ) school district. The school district, in the early 1970s, extended for various municipalities in Mercer County, which would eventually have their own public high schools. Princeton, essentially, conceived Princeton Junction West Windsor-Plainsboro South (NJ), Plainsboro West Windsor-Plainsboro North (NJ) and Robbinsville (NJ).
A few hundred miles south, Stafford County, Va. Only had two secondary schools in 1998, when this site started. Next year, with the opening of Stafford Hartwood (va.), There will be six secondary schools.
You can find some great matchups due to the proximity. Virginia Beach Frank W. Cox (va.) And Virginia Beach First Colonial (va.) Are just about a mile apart along the Mill Dam Creek. Lawrence (NJ) and Lawrence Notre Dame (NJ) are only about 1.2 miles apart along Princeton Pike.
One thing that I also like to see are games between two schools that are apparently the opposite of each other. I treated a game played in the mid -1990s between Princeton (NJ) Day School, a small private school and the nearby Flemington Hunterdon Central (NJ) a huge public school. It was a Saturday afternoon match, and thanks to great team defenses that limit the I-Kaliber athletes in the opposition, the game ended in a 0-0 draw.
And then of course there was my affinity for the series of games between Summit Oak Knoll (NJ) and Voorhees Eastern (NJ), a game that we started with the firm of the Garden State because, although it was not technically not a rivalry game, it was one of the two elite scholastic field hockey programs.
Last weekend, at the National High School Invitational, we also saw one of the oldest field hockey varies playing against one of the newest, such as Arlington Bishop O’Connell (Va.), A team that started in 2012, Beat Moorestown (NJ), a team that started in 1909.
But if it comes to the altitude, every field hockey game, no matter how big or small the school is, has one simple principle – your 11 versus mine 11. And isn’t that as it should be?
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