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Nov. 24, 2009 — Top 10 for the week beginning Nov. 22

November 24, 2009 at 2:15 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: Field hockey

The end of the domestic season also brings to the end our weekly
quick-and-dirty national Top 10. Next month is our more-well-researched national
Top 50, which means that these teams are not guaranteed to be in the same
order.

Our RightToRightIsRight.com No. 11
Team of the Week is the Virginia Club Hockey. The Cavaliers won the National
Field Hockey League championship two weekends ago in a wet and windy Virginia
Beach.

1. Virginia Beach Frank W. Cox (Va.) — 25-0

Season complete: Falcons finish their
postseason with 5-0 defeat of Stafford Mountain View (Va.); dominating team
defeated nine postseason opponents by a combined score of 69-2

2. Voorhees Eastern (N.J.) — 26-2

Season complete: Vikings beat West Long
Branch Shore Regional (N.J.) 8-2; postseason saw the team defeat eight
opponents by a combined score of 66-4

3. Lehighton (Pa.) — 26-0

Season complete: Indians get by
Selinsgrove (Pa.) 1-0 in overtime for school’s first state championship in any
sport since the first school opened in town in 1742; season ended with six
consecutive clean sheets

4. Darien (Conn.) — 22-0

Season complete: Defeated New Canaan
(Conn.) 3-0 to win Class M state title; outscored opposition 102-5 and had 18
shutouts

5. Greene (N.Y.) — 21-0

Season complete: Defeated a focused and
determined Mamaroneck (N.Y.) team 1-0 in Class A final after defeating
Williamsville (N.Y.) North in semifinals by the same score

6. Hummelstown Lower Dauphin (Pa.) — 20-6

Season complete: Relied on tradition, a
lot of skill, and Taylor Alwine’s booming drives to win program’s fourth state
championship and Linda Kreiser’s 600th career coaching victory

7. Acton-Boxborough (Mass.) 24-0

Season complete: Beat Longmeadow 3-0 in
Division I final; team had 21 shutouts on the season

8. Escondido San Pasqual (Calif.) — 20-2

Season complete: Beat a game and
determined Fallbrook (Calif.) Union 1-0 in San Diego Division I
final

9. Selinsgrove (Pa.) — 23-2

Season complete: Seals were an overtime
goal away from the program’s first state championship

10. West Long Branch Shore Regional (N.J.) — 21-1

Season complete: Despite an 8-2 loss at
the hands of Eastern, this team will be a powerhouse in Group I and throughout
the state for years to come

11. Virginia Club Hockey — 11-1-1

Defeated the University of Maryland-College Park Hockey Club to win its
second NFHL title in three years

Who’s out: Malvern Villa Maria (Pa.) 3-0 loss to Lehighton (Pa.); Mount Joy
Donegal (Pa.) 2-1 OT loss to Selinsgrove (Pa.), Hershey (Pa.) 1-0 loss to
Hummelstown Lower Dauphin (Pa.)

And bear in mind: Fallbrook (Calif.) Union 19-7, Costa Mesa Newport Harbor
(Calif.) 15-2-1, San Diego Serra (Calif.) 21-5, San Diego Scripps Ranch (Calif.)
24-5, Los Gatos (Calif.) 21-0-1, Englewood Kent Denver (Colo.) 13-2-2, Lakeville
Hotchkiss School (Conn.) 13-2-1, Yorktown Georgetown Sussex Tech (Del.) 18-1,
Winnetka New Trier (Ill.) 24-3-1, Louisville Assumption (Ky.) 18-7, Gardiner
(Maine) 18-0, Scarborough (Maine) 18-0, Pocomoke (Md.) 19-2, Severna Park (Md.)
17-2, Watertown (Mass.) 20-0-2, Ann Arbor Pioneer (Mich.) 17-1-1, St. Louis Mary
Institute-Country Day School (Mo.) 19-6, St. Louis St. Joseph’s Academy (Mo.)
19-4, Ocean City (N.J.) 20-2, Madison (N.J.) Borough 22-2-1, Sewell Washington
Township (N.J.) 17-3, Marathon (N.Y.) 18-2, Shrub Oak Lakeland (N.Y.) 20-0-1,
Charlotte (N.C.) Country Day School 14-2, Allentown Parkland (Pa.) 20-3, Emmaus
(Pa.) 23-1-1, Millersville Penn Manor (Pa.) 25-1-1, Tabb (Va.) 24-0, Suffolk
Lakeland (Va.) 21-2

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

Sept. 30, 2008 — Top 10 for the week beginning Sept. 28

Oct. 7, 2008 — Top 10 for the week ending Oct. 5

Sept. 1, 2009 — The national preseason Top
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