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    Mamaroneck, Putnam Valley, Lakeland Champions

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    Note: This story will be updated throughout Saturday as each of the three Section 1 class field hockey championships concludes.

    SHRUBS OAK — There is no such thing as a sure thing, at least not in sports.

    But Saturday night’s showdown between Mamaroneck and Ketcham for the Section 1 Class A field hockey crown had to be considered close to that.

    After all, coming into the game, top-seeded Mamaroneck had outscored its opponents 130-5 this season. And 11 of those goals came in a regular-season rout of the second-seeded Storm.

    Ketcham coach John Sullivan had told his team before the game to “just believe” and that all the pressure was on Mamaroneck, the defending Class A state champion.

    “We wanted to surprise Section 1,” he said. But from the beginning it was clear that that was not going to happen.

    The Tigers, who took 34 shots to Ketcham’s two, blanked Ketcham 6-0.

    Catherine D’Arcy had a goal and two assists, Lexi Suman and Lucy Kaplan had a goal and an assist, Ali Maresca, Gabby Sosa and Lily Brickman scored solo and Sadie Fennell and Ruby Pearson each had an assist.

    The score would have been much more lopsided had it not been for the play of Storm goalkeeper Gwenyth Browne.

    He had a couple of notable diving stops, one of which he followed up with another save from the ground.

    But while Mamaroneck didn’t score until 6:26 left in the first quarter on a beautiful Maresca redirection from the left post of a D’Arcy shot, at the half the Tigers were up 4-0 and any thoughts of anyone being The shock was long gone.

    Browne, who gave up his third goal on a rebound after stopping two straight shots, made 10 saves for Ketcham, which finished its season 13-6.

    Penny Norgaard had two saves for the 19-0 Tigers, who will play the Section 9 Class A champion in a state regional final at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9 at Arlington High School.

    Maresca indicated that his team does not take anything for granted. “We will stay focused on every obstacle ahead,” he said.

    Suman, who praised Browne’s play, said that despite building a healthy cushion, Mamaroneck “put in a lot of effort throughout the game.” He said with players stepping up this season to replace those lost to graduation, he believes this year’s Tiger team is comparable in skill to last year’s state champions.

    “We’re still proud of ourselves because we fought hard,” Browne said of Ketcham.

    Sullivan called Mamaroneck a well-trained, well-oiled machine: “They’re the nicest girls. You can’t even get mad at them and use that,” she said of the Tiger players.

    Defenseman to be star: Mulqueen scores twice, leading Putnam Valley over Pleasantville for Class C championship

    Ask Kate Mulqueen what position she plays.

    Until Saturday, the Putnam Valley sophomore would have said defense.

    But Mulqueen, who had perhaps two brief attempts at playing on the offensive side of the field in already well-decided games this fall, was not only recruited to advance the field for Saturday’s Section 1 Class C field hockey final, but became the star. of the game after doing so.

    Replacing an absent teammate, Mulqueen deflected senior Izzy Walther’s shot from a penalty corner into the net late in the first half, then scored unassisted again in the third quarter as the top-seeded Tigers They beat No. 2 Pleasantville 2-0 for the title in a game played at Lakeland High School.

    The match was marked by good defense on both sides.

    Putnam Valley, which had defeated Pleasantville 4-0 during the regular season, had a huge 14-4 penalty corner lead, but only capitalized on it with one goal.

    That was due in part to the excellent defensive efforts of Panther junior Maya Fortier.

    Panthers goalie Maggie Kearney and the rest of the Panther D also brought in their A-games. Kearney finished with seven saves, including a pair of gems.

    Tigers goalkeeper Minisha Singh also stood out several times for her team. He was credited with 10 saves.

    Takeaway meals

    With the win, Putnam Valley is now 15-3-1, with its only losses coming to larger class schools, including Lakeland, which won the Class B championship earlier in the day.

    The Tigers, who reached the section final but lost in both 2022 and 2023, will play the Section 9 Class C champion at noon Saturday in a state regional final at Arlington High School.

    Pleasantville, which narrowly missed a right-to-left pass connection for a possible goal with 7:55 left in the game, finished the season 14-4-1.

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    “We really wanted it today. I think that’s what has pushed us so far,” Fortier said, comparing the teams’ first meeting to the championship game.

    Walther, who verbally committed to play next year for Division II Mercy University, attributed the victory in part to the Tiger coaches and the contributions of players who have graduated from the team in recent years.

    He called the program a “great environment to learn and grow,” and said this year’s win was due to the players who returned last year maturing.

    Mulqueen wasn’t on that team last year. She was on the junior varsity team.

    Of his move on offense and his resulting goals, he smiled and simply said, “It just worked.”

    Putnam Valley head coach Tracy Parchen was more effusive.

    “He did a great job,” he said of Mulqueen. “It’s really amazing.”

    Class B: Lakeland beats Greeley in shootout after neither team scored in regulation or two overtimes

    After four scoreless quarters, two scoreless 10-minute overtimes and a shootout decided by the last shooter, that shooter (Lakeland freshman Aditi Parambath said she was at a loss for words.

    But even if he had 1,000, he might not have been able to adequately describe how his team captured its 16th consecutive Section 1 field hockey championship, making two shootout shots to one by Horace Greeley, a team that sometimes he dominated and came, as his coach Sukhi Sandhu later told his sad team, “so, so close, so many times” to winning.

    Both goalkeepers had outstanding games.

    Magnificent games, indeed.

    Lakeland junior Jenna Yazzetti saved Lakeland’s season, diving through the air, left to right, to stop a high shot in the final seconds of regulation.

    Could have been the save of the year in Section 1.

    “She’s a phenomenal goalie,” said Sharon Sarsen, who has guided Lakeland to each of its sectional championships. “She is a player. “She loves big moments.”

    Yazzetti had 11 saves, including four in the shootout.

    His counterpart, Quaker freshman Darby Robertson, wasn’t tested as often, but he outperformed him time and time again. He had five saves during regulation and three in the penalty shootout.

    In the penalty shootout, the players faced the goalkeeper 1 on 0 and had 10 seconds to score unless the ball went out of bounds.

    Lakeland’s quick and talented senior Gabby Santini, who had been limited to one shot on net before the shootout, got her rebound and went high over Robertson to put Lakeland up 1-0.

    But Lilah Tainsky tied things up, getting Yazzetti down and then rounding her to score.

    In the end, it was Parambath who got his rebound and was able to beat Darby, giving Lakeland the Class B crown.

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    Takeaway meals

    Lakeland, which had beaten Greeley 2-0 during the regular season, is now 18-2.

    They will play the Section 9 winner in a Class B state regional final at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9 at Arlington High School.

    Greeley, whose defense, led by Eve Rutman, was tremendous throughout the game, finished the season 16-4.

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    “Greeley played tough defense and took away our strengths,” Sarsen said.

    Greeley beat Lakeland to multiple turnovers, especially during a first half in which Sarsen said his team was “flat.” The fact that a freshman won the game for Lakeland wasn’t a total surprise to Sarsen, who had several juniors on the field.

    “At this level, you have to win as a team. We struggled. We had a ‘next man up’ mentality,” he said.

    Of Greeley, Santini said, “They came really prepared and confident.” He described Robertson’s work as “amazing”.

    Yazzetti, who had 99 career college saves entering the game, noted that he had spoken to Parambath before the shooting and told him to play like he always does and, “Go, get it.”

    She noted that Parambath had beaten her in practice in shootout shots like the one she scored on Saturday.

    “I’m so grateful she scored. I’m so proud of her,” Yazzetti said, describing the win as No. 1 among her three sectional championships with Lakeland.

    Parambath gathered some words and noted that as he dribbled toward the goal, he remembered his father’s instructions to “calm down.”

    Rutman, who was all over the field, correctly anticipating multiple Lakeland passes, intercepting them and then creating offense in the opposite direction, said the game marked the best game his team had ever played against Lakeland, which beat them 1-0 in the final. from last year. end.

    “This was the best thing we’ve ever done. We had the best mentality,” he said.

    And he indicated that this mentality will continue until next year.

    Commenting, “Third time’s the charm,” he predicted Greeley will win the 2025 section title.

    Nancy Haggerty covers cross-country skiing, track and field, field hockey, skiing, basketball, women’s lacrosse and other sporting events for The Journal News/lohud. Follow her on Twitter at @HaggertyNancy.

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