THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, November 10, 1995 TAG: 9511100639
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY LEE TOLLIVER, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: Medium: 57 lines
Cox and Bayside made the Eastern Region field hockey championship an all-Beach affair for the fifth time in six years with semifinal victories Thursday at Cox.
The two will meet at noon today in a rematch of last year's final and both will advance to next Thursday's Group AAA quarterfinal round at Fairfax's Oakton High.
Cox has won both meetings against Bayside so far this season.
The Falcons (17-0) defeated Tabb 4-0 to advance to today's final, while Bayside (16-2) beat Maury 4-0.
The Marlins' only losses in two years have come at the hands of six-time defending state champion Cox.
Both teams overwhelmed their semifinal opponents - Cox finishing with a 27-1 shooting advantage over Tabb (14-3) and Bayside with a 28-2 margin over Maury (11-4).
Cox got into its scoring mode in the first seven minutes of the opener on an unassisted goal by Catherine McCallum.
Less than two minutes later, Brianne Baylor passed to Katie McDonald to make it 2-0. Kim Miller scored her 57th goal of the season - tying for third place all-time for single-season goals in the national record books - on a diving shot with 7:50 left in the first half.
Tabb then stacked up its defense - placing all 10 field players in the scoring circle - and allowed only a McDonald goal on an assist by Baylor in the second half.
``We just had too many people standing around in the second half,'' Baylor said. ``But even though they packed it in on us, we should have been able to score more.''
Bayside continued where it left of in Wednesday's 2-0 victory over Lafayette - with lots of chances and too few goals.
Bayside had 32 penalty corner plays to the Commodores' five.
``But we picked it up in the second half,'' said Jen Moricle, who scored 2 1/2 minutes into the second half and twice more later in the game.
``After yesterday, we talked at halftime about having to pick it up because we were doing the same thing we were yesterday.''
Dawn Bell made it 2-0 on assists by Kay Anderson and Angie Hebron before Moricle completed the hat trick.
``We score more from field plays than from penalty corners, but that's typical of high school teams,'' Marlins coach Kathy Mustain said. ``But you'd think with so many corners that we'd get some goals off them.'' ILLUSTRATION: L. TODD SPENCER
Lisa Dale of Maury defends against Bayside in Thursday's Eastern
Regional semifinal match.
by CNB