One of the most anticipated games on the high school field hockey scene each year is the meeting between Allentown and Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
The two meet on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at ND\u2019s Msgr. Nolan Field.<\/p>\n
These are two programs that have a great amount of respect for each other and are very familiar.<\/p>\n
Three of the last five meetings, including the inaugural Colonial Valley Conference Tournament championship game in 2024, have been decided by one goal.<\/p>\n
A year ago, the two powerhouses met in the CVC semifinal with the win going to Allentown.<\/p>\n
Maybe for the first time in a few years they are bringing two distinctly different teams to the field.<\/p>\n
The Irish (2-1) are a senior laden veteran team and the Redbirds (2-2) are a relatively young team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always a great competition when we play Allentown,\u2019\u2019 said Cheryl Harris, the Notre Dame coach. \u201cThey never fail to have some key players that we will need to keep our eyes on.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The Irish come into the game off an 8-0 win over Steinert and the Redbirds will be looking to get back on the winning ways after a 4-0 loss to Hun.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited for Notre Dame,\u2019\u2019 said Allentown coach Kayla Peterson. \u201cThey always show up and are ready to play. They are strong and we are strong as well.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The Irish have been led by senior Kelsey Wood, who had a four goal game against Steinert and she has six goals on the season. Wood had nine all of last season.<\/p>\n
A player that has been contributing to the success at ND since her freshman year is Victoria Suschke. Now, a senior, she has four goals and four assists and Suschke is nearing the 100-point plateau with 97 career points.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have great senior leadership,\u2019\u2019 declared Harris. \u201cThey bring a lot of insight and positivity to our team huddles.\u00a0 Our captains are stellar role models, and the rest of the seniors are 100% invested into each game and practice.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Allentown lost 10 seniors from the team that has won the last three meetings and those players took 205 career goals with them.<\/p>\n
So, the Redbirds are at least offensively a work in progress as sophomore Kyla Mitchell leads the attack with two goals.<\/p>\n
Defensively, Anna Simonds has been terrific guarding the cage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe key to beating Allentown will be defense,\u2019\u2019 stated Harris. \u201cWe know how to score, but so do they. We will have to keep them out of our circle.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Cora Guicheteau has done a solid job in the goal for the Irish with 38 saves in three games.<\/p>\n
Hun Heads to National Invitational Tournament<\/p>\n
Hun, which is 4-0 on the season, will play in the MAX National Invitational Tournament this weekend in Conshohocken, Pa.<\/p>\n
The Raiders play Garrison Forest of Maryland (3-0) on Saturday and then face Guilderland of New York State on Sunday.<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be a great experience for a young Hun team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most anticipated games on the high school field hockey scene each year is the meeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,305,915,726,10356],"class_list":["post-286590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-high-school-sports","tag-new-jersey","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-trt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}