Greene advances in state playoffs
GREENE – It’s November, it’s the field hockey playoffs, and the Greene Trojans are again in the mix for a state championship.
The Trojans advanced to the Class A state quarterfinals this Saturday at Shenendehowa beating Baldwinsville in its first-round contest, 1-0 in sudden-victory overtime here Tuesday night.
It was perhaps the toughest test of the season for the Trojans (17-0), who staved off some second-half and overtime offense by the Bees to earn the shutout win, and extend their winning streak to 37 straight games.
Greene finished with 10 shots and 13 penalty corners, but most of those shots and corners came in the final seven minutes of regulation plus overtime.
“We just needed to figure out how they played and how to crack them,” said Andrea Day, one of three Greene seniors, and owner of the game’s winning goal.
After a free hit by Abbey Wentlent moved the ball up the field, Day found herself in one-on-one situation with Baldwinsville’s defender. Day gained a leg up on the right side, and fired a shot while off balance that lifted high into the left corner of the cage at the 4:52 mark. Day raised her hands and screamed as she was quickly surrounded by her teammates.
“I just had one person to beat, and that ball was not going out,” Day said of the final play. “I just knew that shot was going in. Thank God it went in.”
Baldwinsville tested the Greene defense early in the extra period garnering a penalty corner in the first minute of seven-versus-seven play. The Bees made an entry pass, but never got a shot off as the play was stuffed. That would be the only good scoring chance for Baldwinsville in the extra period.
During regulation time, though, Baldwinsville had four penalty corners and all but one of its shots during an eight-minute stretch midway through the half. On the last of those corners, Cathy Stahl intercepted a pass in the middle, and drove it up the field to set up the Trojans’ attack and the first of six straight penalty corners.
“It was a little nerve-wracking for a while there, but I have a lot of confidence in them, and I was never in panic mode,” Carlin said. “Cathy ran that one out, and that was huge for us. She played super today, and really our whole defense did. Baldwinsville is a great team, and we’ll take this win.”
Baldwinsville (15-4), who advanced out of Section III with a 3-1 win over Rome Free Academy, clearly had a defensive strategy of slowing the game down and packing its players in the penalty circle. Several times in the first half, the Baldwinsville defense swept the ball out of bounds at the sign of a Trojans offensive threat.
“It took us to get to seven-V-seven because they just packed it in on us,” Carlin said. “We did get quite a few corners and I thought we executed them well, it was just tough to get one through. I knew in overtime, with our speed and Andrea’s speed, that if we got somebody one-on-one, I told them to just put it away.”
And Day did just that winning the day for unbeaten Greene.
Tuesday night’s win marked the fourth straight shutout win for Greene in the state playoffs, all against Class A schools significantly larger than itself.
Summary
Score by half OT
Bald. 0 0 0–0
Gre. 0 0 1–1
Goals-assists: (G) Andrea Day, 1-0 (OT, 4:52).
Shots-penalty corners: (G) 10-13, (B) 4-5.
Goalie Saves: (G) Devyn Staley 3, (B) Ashley Farrell, 5.
The Trojans advanced to the Class A state quarterfinals this Saturday at Shenendehowa beating Baldwinsville in its first-round contest, 1-0 in sudden-victory overtime here Tuesday night.
It was perhaps the toughest test of the season for the Trojans (17-0), who staved off some second-half and overtime offense by the Bees to earn the shutout win, and extend their winning streak to 37 straight games.
Greene finished with 10 shots and 13 penalty corners, but most of those shots and corners came in the final seven minutes of regulation plus overtime.
“We just needed to figure out how they played and how to crack them,” said Andrea Day, one of three Greene seniors, and owner of the game’s winning goal.
After a free hit by Abbey Wentlent moved the ball up the field, Day found herself in one-on-one situation with Baldwinsville’s defender. Day gained a leg up on the right side, and fired a shot while off balance that lifted high into the left corner of the cage at the 4:52 mark. Day raised her hands and screamed as she was quickly surrounded by her teammates.
“I just had one person to beat, and that ball was not going out,” Day said of the final play. “I just knew that shot was going in. Thank God it went in.”
Baldwinsville tested the Greene defense early in the extra period garnering a penalty corner in the first minute of seven-versus-seven play. The Bees made an entry pass, but never got a shot off as the play was stuffed. That would be the only good scoring chance for Baldwinsville in the extra period.
During regulation time, though, Baldwinsville had four penalty corners and all but one of its shots during an eight-minute stretch midway through the half. On the last of those corners, Cathy Stahl intercepted a pass in the middle, and drove it up the field to set up the Trojans’ attack and the first of six straight penalty corners.
“It was a little nerve-wracking for a while there, but I have a lot of confidence in them, and I was never in panic mode,” Carlin said. “Cathy ran that one out, and that was huge for us. She played super today, and really our whole defense did. Baldwinsville is a great team, and we’ll take this win.”
Baldwinsville (15-4), who advanced out of Section III with a 3-1 win over Rome Free Academy, clearly had a defensive strategy of slowing the game down and packing its players in the penalty circle. Several times in the first half, the Baldwinsville defense swept the ball out of bounds at the sign of a Trojans offensive threat.
“It took us to get to seven-V-seven because they just packed it in on us,” Carlin said. “We did get quite a few corners and I thought we executed them well, it was just tough to get one through. I knew in overtime, with our speed and Andrea’s speed, that if we got somebody one-on-one, I told them to just put it away.”
And Day did just that winning the day for unbeaten Greene.
Tuesday night’s win marked the fourth straight shutout win for Greene in the state playoffs, all against Class A schools significantly larger than itself.
Summary
Score by half OT
Bald. 0 0 0–0
Gre. 0 0 1–1
Goals-assists: (G) Andrea Day, 1-0 (OT, 4:52).
Shots-penalty corners: (G) 10-13, (B) 4-5.
Goalie Saves: (G) Devyn Staley 3, (B) Ashley Farrell, 5.
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