As huge home matches loom with Liverpool and Baldwinsville this week, the Liverpool field hockey team warmed up for it with wins of varying difficulty to move its record to 7-2-1.
A big first half marked the Warriors’ trip to Auburn last Tuesday afternoon, as it ignored the adverse conditions and got a career effort from Emma Lamison to blank the Maroons 6-0.
Even with rain, wind and mud to worry about, Liverpool notched five goals in the first half, then backed off and used its entire roster to make sure no one got hurt.
All Lamison did was produce score four times and assist on the Warriors’ other two goals, earned by Angela Charles and Megan Sardella. Holly Clark joined Charles in the assist column. Liverpool finished with 21 shots to Auburn’s total of one.
Liverpool had to once again get used to a grass surface in Thursday’s match against Fayetteville-Manlius, but did enough to beat the Hornets 2-1.
F-M would play the Warriors to a 1-1 first-half draw, Katelyn Gualtieri getting the Hornets’ goal. The Warriors would move ahead in the late going, though, as Lamison and Charles both scored and Tess Tracy made three saves.
Cicero-North Syracuse had a great chance to make a season-long statement when it took on Baldwinsville last Wednesday night at Bragman Stadium, but never could get much of an attack going in a 2-0 loss to the Bees.
B’ville, still in first place in the CNY Counties League, was steaming in the wake of giving up its first goals of the season and taking a 7-1 loss to Rome Free Academy five days earlier.
Yet the Bees were not out of control against CNS. Rather, it stayed patient and possessed the ball, as the Northstars managed just two shots and never made many serious charges. Goals by Lindsay Varga and Natalie Lynch would hold up all night.
CNS played again Saturday, falling to Fayetteville-Manlius 2-1. Down 1-0 at the half, the Northstars got on the board with Stojkovski’s goal, but could not keep F-M from staying in front as Lindsey Trachtenberg and Kendra Napierala scored. Meghan Wiacek finished with six saves.
On Tuesday night, the Northstars meet the Hornets again as CNS hosts its annual Coaches vs. Cancer fund-raiser, called “Stick It to Cancer”. The program has been selling T-shirts and raising money, hoping to top the $14,000 it raised in last year’s event.
Meanwhile, Liverpool gets its second chance at Baldwinsville and RFA, the other two prime Class A title contenders. Both teams already beat the Warriors and split with each other in one-sided affairs – B’ville hammering RFA 4-0 in the season’s opening week, the Black Knights retaliating with a 7-1 romp of the Bees on Oct. 1.
