SCARBOROUGH – York was able to weather the first quick start by the Leavitt field hockey team but not the second.
Leavitt, known for wearing teams down late in games, broke form and dominated the opening 10 minutes of each half in Tuesday’s Western Class B final at Scarborough High.
The pressure paid off in the second half when Bri DeGone, taking the fourth shot in one penalty-corner sequence, got the ball past York’s four-year goalkeeper Amanda Kasbohm with 19:39 to play in the game. That was enough for the third-seeded Hornets to dethrone four-time Western B champ York, 1-0.
“Looking back on it, it’s like mind-blowing,” DeGone said of her goal. “I remember looking up and knowing that this was crucial and we weren’t going to have many options like this and that ball had to get into the net.”
Third-seeded Leavitt (14-3) returns to the state championship game for the first time since a four-year run from 1994-97.
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