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Field hockey team out in quarterfinals Northport defeats Newfield, but falls short to Ward Melwlle, 3-0 BY JOHN WESTERMANN \It's been ages since we've been in the Suffolk County playoffs,\ Northport coach Deb Ferry said before the game on Newfileld's home turf. \Just one year,\ said an anonymous assistant. \It's been two decades since we've advanced to the second round,\ Ferry added. The assistant also failed to confirm this gloomy factoid. Clearly, coach Ferry is not a bright- eyed optimist before big games. But her team was well prepared and ready to rock, and they took out the higher- seeded Newfield Wolverines 1-0. Newfreld entered the first-round contest missing two starters and one head coach as a result of red-card vio- Northport's ColleenCaltahan and Newfleld's Jackie Allegro converge on the bail. Northport defeated Newfield 1-0 on November 2. lations in their previous game. In the one-goal battle, the loss of leadership and personnel was fatal. Newfield's star, Empire Team player Krystal Napolitano, and her Wolverine team- mates played hard and smart and kept the pressure on high. But Napolitano's Empire teammate and Northport co- captain J.J. Diash was outstanding -- and frustrating - in the goal. The Tigers were outshot 10-4, with Dish turning aside all 10 Newfield shots. At the other end of the field, Newfield's goal was welil-tended by Nicole Willis, who recorded three saves. Northport captain Lauren Brainerd scored the game's only goal on a penal- ty comer from Erin Ehrhardt with 22:51 left in the second haif. The Northport defense of Lindsay Albanese, Heather Anderson, Liz Cicciarelli, co-captain Maura Hickey, Jonatha Tiffany and Kait Sullivan held on from there. After the tense, well-attended game, Ferry said, \We've been struggling through a tough schedule all year, so this is a very nice win for us to get. I told the girls to play strong. As the lower seed we had nothing to lose. Not to say that we were looking past Newfield, because they beat us both times we faced them this year, but we really want to play Ward Melville again. (Melville's legendary coach Nancy Cole was in the bleachers, scouting the game.) We were really close the first two times we played Melville, losing the second game in overtime. Our girls want another chance.\ The Northport Tigers and Ferry arrived at Ward Melvilie courtesy of a single goal by Lauren Brainerd. Against Ward Melville Diah made 17 MWMmaMbootp-damm mmmmvnmmzhumwmm \fin“l'mll‘rifl - i *teanf~*1iadmm - | followed by Beliport wi Northport sophomore Kerry Brenner takes a shot against Newfield. After defeating Newfield, Northport competed against Ward Melville two days later for a 3-0 loss. more saves, many spectacular. Controlling the ball and territory, Shaylyn Blayney, Katie Bruno, Amanda Hall and Katie Beltrani kept picking and probing, until senior mid- die Kaitlyn O'Donnell broke the score - less tie to give the Patriots a 1-0 lead at the half. Senior Susan made it 2-0 early in the second half. Blaney scored an insurance goal on a rocket from just inside the circle. Blaney also added an assist. - The-Northport-girls\*-cross country - in the Suffolk County championships, held November 4 at Sunken Mcadow State | Park, with 156 points. Ward Melville ended Bay Shore's 12-year winning . streak and caned a Class AA champi- - onship by placing first with 52 points compared to Bay Shore's 65. Longwood | finished in third place with 88 points, b suthphoewnhahfieoleSB Ward get Reilly (19:59), -- more Supt Alan (2046) and senior . kmyWu;(W25)fimshedoncafier Mam-ham Erika Northport - Cartolano finished 18th at 20:57. | Teammate junior Amanda Filiberto came in- at 21:46. Senior Laura 1. aSclmochefl” finished in 22:33 for _ Northport, while teammate senior ' Samantha Seitter clocked in at 22:49. Freshman Swphuuc Luca finished the Cole said after the game, \We played great today against the best goalkeeper on Long Island. J.J. Diah made only one mistake all day that I could see. The last two goals were per- fect shots. Nobody could have stopped them. She's simply the best.\ Ward Melville's Elizabeth Maffetone, no slouch herself in the net, pitched a three-save shutout behind solid defense unit of Erin Broderick, Stephanie Fisher, Christy Geslak, Erica Thompson and Jackie Horn. course in 23:23. - -The Smithtown-boys' cross- country onships, finishing with just 39 paints. compared to second place finisher Middle Country, which had 110 points. West Islip came in third place, followed by Longwood, Bay Shore and Wait Whitman. The Northport boys finished in 12th place. Connetquot senior Robert Krause completed the race first with a time of 16:24, followed by Ward Melville senior Jimmy Joy at 16:31. Smithtown juriors Brendan Martin and Dan Frost placed third and fourth at 16:31 and 16:56, respectively. Nonhport senior Andrew Miller clocked in at 17:33, placing. 10th. Freshman Brendan Dwyer -ran. 18:55, and following shortly behind was team- mate Ben Haffner, a junior, at 18:58. Freshman Alex Haffner ran 19:30, ie MichaelLovagho, 2 fresh- man, ran 19:39, senior Sean Quinn fin- ished at 19:54 and freshman Rob Cherkis finished in 20:02.
