Both inside and outside of league play, the Baldwinsville field hockey team spent last week filling up the scoreboard and reminding everyone what it could do when things were clicking.
This trio of games started last Monday with the Bees hosting Cortland and cruising past the Purple Tigers 9-0. Camped out all night in Cortland’s end, B’ville took an astonishing 54 shots, an average of nearly a shot per minute.
Amanda Strenk put in four of those shots, with Mary Cate McKee scoring twice. Lauren Brushingham, Olivia Wachob and Erika Van Slyke had one goal apiece, with Wachob joining Mackenzie Wodka and Talia Scarfino in the assist column as Emma Brushingham got two assists.
B’ville went for its sixth win in a row at Fayetteville-Manlius last Wednesday, the first time the two sides had met since last season’s Section III Class A final, where the Bees avenged two regular-season defeats to the Hornets to win the one that counted most.
Here, B’ville prevailed again, a 4-1 decision where it didn’t let F-M get on the board until a late goal by Avery Moses, by which point the Bees, especially Strenk, had done all that it needed to stay undefeated.
Though a constant source of defensive attention from the Hornets, Strenk still managed her second consecutive hat trick, netting three goals as McKee also converted. Lauren Brushingham got credit for an assist. In goal, Hailey Boda recorded five saves.
On Saturday, B’ville took a much longer road trip, this one to Holland Patent, but again won big, the 7-3 decision that was even more impressive when considering that Strenk and McKee, responsible for 13 goals between them in the previous two games, were shut out here, though Strenk did get an assist.
Instead, the rest of the Bees’ attack got to shine, with Wodka and Lauren Brushingham each pouring in two goals and adding an assist. Van Slyke had one goal and one assist, while Claire Vredenburg and Madison Ascioti also found the net. Natasia Plunkett had two of HP’s three goals, with Hannah Corrigan earning the other.
Without much rest, B’ville played again Monday at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill, hoping to get head coach Tessa Ordway her 50th career win with the Bees before hosting Liverpool Thursday and testing itself Saturday with a game at reigning state Class C champion Whitney Point.
