One more opportunity awaited for the Fayetteville-Manlius and East Syracuse Minoa field hockey teams to add to their respective win totals before their 2020 seasons concluded.
In particular, F-M was keyed about last Monday’s game against Baldwinsville, the reigning sectional Class A champions who rallied to beat the Hornets 2-1 in overtime when they first met Oct. 15.
Now, in the rematch on its own home turf, F-M again went out in front – but managed to stay there and claimed a 1-0 decision to improve its record to 7-3-1.
It was Maddy Duggleby earning the go-ahead goal, unassisted, a rare instance where the Hornets were able to generate chances against a stingy B’ville defense.
But F-M would protect that slim margin, limiting the Bees to four shots, all stopped by Claire Grenis.
ESM played against Liverpool on Nov. 5 at LHS Stadium, and the result was exactly the same as their Oct. 15 encounter, the Spartans on the wrong end of a 2-1 decision.
Olivia Grabowski’s goal put ESM on the board, with an assist to Abby Herrington. Maura Leib earned eight saves, but the Warriors used goals by Gianna Carbone and Caitlyn Guilfoil to pull it out.
Then the Spartans fell 5-0 to Cicero-North Syracuse last Monday night, the Northstars improving to 13-0 and overcoming Leib’s 11 saves as Jamie Snyder and Chrissy Wagner both scored twice.
F-M was supposed to have an opportunity last Thursday to try and give 13-0 Cicero-North Syracuse its lone defeat of the season. The Northstars instead faced Canastota and won another 5-0 decision.
