Newport Harbor Varsity Field Hockey traveled to Glendora for the first round of the Tournament of Champions playoffs. The Sailors fell 0-1, but answered back quickly with a goal by Kirsten Rohan. The game remained tied 1-1 through regulation time, as well as a 10-minute sudden victory over time. The game ended with penalty strokes where Glendora won. Coach Amanda Boyer noted that the team played well and should be proud of their season. On Wednesday, Glendora will face Huntington Beach and Edison will face Harvard Westlake in the semi-finals.
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Celebrations in O.C. Life
A photo from the Newport Harbor Varsity Field Hockey TOC Championship was in the Daily Pilot on a page highlighting ‘2011’s Best’.
“This year our photographers were witness to many of the celebrations and victories big and small, individual and team, personal and public, that filled the pages of our Times Community newspapers. You have to be ready to capture the moment. Look away and its gone. Sometimes there’s too much, like in close games, and sometimes too little, like a couple kissing on their 50th wedding anniversary. Either way, the challenge is to capture the moment that sums up the joy.”
– The Daily Pilot, Wednesday, December 21, 2011
TOC CHAMPIONS
Newps Dynasty
Newport Harbor captures fourth straight TOC title after playing strong defense to beat rival Huntington Beach.
Daily Pilot | Bruce Bourquin
HUNTINGTON BEACH — In the each of the past three seasons prior to Thursday’s Los Angeles Field Hockey Assn. Tournament of Champions final at Edison High, the Newport Harbor field hockey team knew nothing but winning championships.
In the Sailors’ fourth season, they still do.
Newport Harbor dealt Huntington Beach its first loss of the season, scoring two first-half goals and playing stout defense in a 2-0 win.
Newport Harbor completed the four-peat and has won five championships in team history, beginning with the 2003 team that included Amanda Boyer, who completed her second season as the Sailors’ head coach with a 20-4-2 record.
Huntington Beach finished with a spectacular season in winning the Sunset League and owning a 23-1-1 record. The Sailors have beaten the Oilers in the past four TOC title games.
“This team, when they play together and they play with their hearts, that’s when they play their best,” said Boyer, who added it took a team effort to win the title. “We told them that when you play Newport ball, that’s when you’ll end up winning.”
With 18:54 left in the first half, Newport Harbor senior forward Allie Pantoskey found center Courtney McIntosh on a short corner. McIntosh dribbled to her right, then she fired a hard shot to her left from 10 meters out and past Oilers goalie Kayla Wigney.
McIntosh, who scored two goals in the tournament, was named to the all-tournament team, along with Jill Messersmith, who had one goal, and the tournament’s Most Valuable Player Sophie Evans.
“I was at the top of the circle,” McIntosh said. “I touched it between their sticks, faked it and shot it toward their left-hand side. It was nice to win it all four years.”
Pantoskey had the magic touch again with 4:43 left in the first half, after she assisted on a goal scored by Taury Hlinka, who put away a bouncing ball right in front of the goal.
“I knew where they were open,” Pantoskey said. “I just found them. It’s amazing to win it in our senior year. I’m so happy we won it, I knew we would.”
Huntington Beach head coach Cathy Van Doornum saw her team unable to cash in on six short corner opportunities and shots from close range by Hannah Rodriguez, Kayla Wigney and others.
“We had a slow first half,” Van Doornum said. “We looked tired, we didn’t play our game. We tried to have a shorter passing game, they had a longer, harder-hitting passing game.”
Boyer saw that her defense was able to hold off late Oiler charges, with Sailor goalie Andie Ward picking up the shutout.
“They were like a wall,” said Boyer, a goalie in her playing days at Newport.
The wall helped bring the Sailors their fourth consecutive TOC title.
TOC Recap
Newport Harbor Field Hockey traveled to Glendora for the Tournament of Champions Semi-Final game and won 2-1. Senior Madison Wooters scored a goal and junior Jill Messersmith scored one with an assist by Kirsten Rohan. Senior Kellie Conant was amazing in defense against Glendora. Click here to see the post on OC Now.
Newport progresses to the championship game tomorrow to play against Huntington Beach at Edison field at 3:00 p.m. Frosh/Soph, JV, and all fans are encouraged to come cheer Newport on!
Semifinal Preview
Sailors continue run in semifinals
Defending champion Newport Harbor, which has won three straight TOC titles, will play at Glendora Wednesday.
Daily Pilot | Matt Szabo
The Newport Harbor High field hockey team is just two wins away from its fourth straight Los Angeles Field Hockey Assn. Tournament of Champions title.
The journey continues Wednesday, as the Sailors are at Glendora at 3:30 p.m. in a semifinal match.
Newport Harbor Coach Amanda Boyer, whose team shut out Chaminade, 2-0, in a first-round match Monday, said the Tars are playing well.
“They have the potential to win the whole thing,” Boyer said. “I have the confidence in them. It’s just a matter of them having the confidence in themselves.”
Junior Taury Hlinka and senior Courtney McIntosh (penalty stroke) scored in the first-round win. Boyer said Newport Harbor played good team defense and passed well.
Beating Glendora will not be easy. The Sailors (18-4-2) played Glendora to a scoreless tie on the road on Sept. 15. Glendora, which like Newport Harbor has a grass home field instead of field-turf, is the Sunset League north division champion.
Boyer said Glendora plays a really wide game and is quick to the ball.
“It’ll be a tough matchup,” she said.
Harvard-Westlake plays at Huntington Beach at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the other TOC semifinal. The championship match of the eight-team tournament is at 3 p.m. Thursday at Edison.
Newport Harbor has advanced to the title match nine of the past 10 years. Each of the title-game wins the last three years have been against rival Huntington Beach.
TOC Recap
Newport Harbor Field Hockey hosted Chaminade for the first round of the Tournament of Champions at Davidson Field on Monday. Junior Taury Hlinka and senior captain Courtney McIntosh scored the two goals for the sailors. Newport travels to Glendora on Wednesday for the semi-final game at 3:30 p.m.
Seen in The Current
Thanks to the OC Register’s publication, ‘The Current‘, for putting a snapshot of the 2010 Championship team in their December 31st issue. It is very exciting to get such great coverage for Newport Harbor Field Hockey in Orange County! Go Newport!
