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COURIER-POST, a-TRRY HB-L. HJ Monday, Hynrm 72, 1878 55 (EuipHs9 -HID)Ikey Three State champioiisliiips Group Two Haddonfield i in the tough Colonial Conference, a second straight South Jersey Group 2 championship and a sparkling 15-4-2 season log. "I thought they were great," enthused Haddonfield's veteran coach Ellie Kind. "This team is younger than a lot of teams I've had, but it's very talented, and the girls have played five super tournament games. "We've played some awfully good hockey at Haddonfield over the years," she continued.

"My mother graduated in 1909, and she played hockey. I've been coaching here for 27 years and I've had some very good teams, but I've never had a team that played 21 games and won IS of them. "The girls have been playing well all year. They are very willing to work very hard. They never thought they were great, but they've had confidence in themselves." It's the kind of confidence and hard work that paid off in a state championship and put field hockey back prominently on the Haddonfield map.

StattOnwpl Final Maddonf iM Paquannock 0 Coalt: Eva Colalillo, Louisa LeifnkuMw; Shutouts: S. Hunterdon Evalyn Jackion. Chatham Twp. Jul Folav. By RUTII SADLER i Courier-Post Staff TRENTON Make no mistake about it, Haddonfield High School is field hockey country.

Haddonfield girls have been playing hockey, and playing it well, for more than 70 years. But for the past several years, the school has been synonymous with topnotch girls' basketball. The Haddons put their field hockey reputation back in focus Saturday, whipping Pequannock, 2-0, for the state Group 2 championship here at Mercer Counry Park. It was their first hockey crown and one of three state titles South Jersey girls captured this year. "People think we're a basketball school, and they expect us to do well in basketball," explained Louise Leim-kuhler, a talented athlete and basketball standout who sparkled on offense and defense for the hockey champions.

"They don't expect it in hockey, but I guess now they will," she added. "I really can't believe it. Everybody always hopes, but when you reach it, it's hard to believe you're here. Everybody played SO well." That was the Haddons' secret a 1 ,1 launch another devastating attack. But, in the second half, when the North Jersey champions mounted a serious attack, the Haddons' defense was perfect.

Goalie Leslie Faucett came up with several spectacular saves to preserve her 13th shutout of the season and fourth of the tournament. 'We knew once we scored, that was it," a happy Jodi Koontz said. "We're a defense that gets going once we score." That one-up advantage on the scoreboard wasn't all the Haddons had going for them. "The important thing to remember is, superstitious or not, we haven't wona coin toss and then lost the game all year," the senior halfback said with a grin. "That gives us a psychological edge." Psychological edge or not, the Haddons played the tough, solid hockey that is traditional in Haddon- -field.

It's the dominating kind of game that earned the team runnerup honors totally-dominating attack and an air-tight defense. Haddonfield's line took control of the game from the opening whistle, and Lisa Gaylert, Kathy Bonner, Nancy Binder, Eva Colalillo and BeccaDurand put the pressure on the Pequannock The first payoff come eight and a half minutes later when Colalillo, the team's hlgh-socring inner, banged in the first goal. Leimkuhler -put the game on ice early in the second half when she slammed home a rebound following a comer. The Haddonfield attack dominated so much of the game that the defense really didn't get much of a chance to show why it has been one of South Jersey's best. Leimkuhler and defensive mates Donna Rexon, Laura Miller, Jodi Koontz and Donna Shaw kept Pequannock on its side of the 50-yard line for most of the game, sending long clearing drives out to the line to sy Moorestown HADDONFIELD COAOI Olie Kind discusses strategy with junior halfback Louise Ieirnkuhler.

The veteran coach guided the Haddons to the state Group 2 championship Saturday, a 2-0 triumph over Pequannock. S.J, teams, dazzle with defensive play By RUTH SADLER Courier-Post Staff TRENTON South Jersey chauvinists have insisted for years that the best scholastic field hockey in the state is played here. It's a tough brand of hockey, and this year it produced three state champions. The three titlists Haddonfield (Group 2), Courlcr-Pott Photo by Jo Od Palazzo FAUCETT rallies, the Rams were held by halfbacks Debbie and Lisa Adams and Debbie Wetherill and fullbacks Patty White md Vikki Bovoso. It was an overeagerness on defenseas goalie Cathy Costello i touched the ball with her hands which led to Ramsey's goal.

Brayd took the penalty stroke, ruled an automatic goal, as Costello moved her feet, not allowed on a penalty stroke. "I really don't think the girls settled down all afternoon," said Moorestown coach Barbara Esbjornson. "Their league really isn't settled, there's been lots of pressure on them. When can you celebrate?" The Quakers still have an unfinished Burlco Liberty slate, but NJSIAA rules do not permit games after championships. "We had a goal," said Allen, who turned in a fine performance at wing.

"We were thinking championship, championship. Maybe we were "Despite all the help and everything we get from Miss DiCola," said Murray, "we had to remember that she wasn't on the field with' us. Nobody out there except us. We've been talking about winning it for the league and South Jersey and everybody else. Today, we decided to win this one for us." Ctorte WHOM Overconfidence might have affected some of the Quakers, but Brown didn't see it as a problem for her.

If anything, it was the opposite reaction for the Quakers' other outstanding wing. "I wasn't overconfident at all," said Brown. "I was nervous, but it wasn't the same kind of nervousness I've had beforeother games. This was a dream. It didn't hit me until Friday that we were really coming here, so I had a couple of days to think about it.

"It was the anticipatory nerves I get before other games. This was the gut-wrenching, can't-keep-your-breakfast-down kind of nerves." "I'm excited," said Esbjornson. "I know the girls are excited, deep down. But, having won to get here, then not winning when they do get here is a letdown." But, the Quakers do have the NJSIAA Championship trophy to remind them they are the co-champions. After all, they did win the coin toss to take the trophy home.

Ramsey will just have to wait for its symbol of supremacy. aaOrupIFinal UnmtlNM I. BMIUV Goala: Moorattown Mary Allan. Ramtay-Nancy Brady. For the Chimeras it was the almost-miraculous turnabout from the disastrous seasons which went before.

"When we were out there, we were thinking about three years ago when evervbodv used to stomp on us. All this year, we wanted to prove we ve come a long way since then," said Beck. Willingboro Morrh Knolls 0 Goals: Barb Back. Pam Bookman, Heidi Tuma; Shutout: Maggia Anderson. Thic Winter with a I III lliu'vr 0 This Advertisement Moorestown (Group 3) and Willingboro (Group 4) turned in one of the most impressive collective defensive performances in scholastic hockey.

In 15 tournament games, against the best field hockey teams in the state, the combined defenses of the three schools allowed just four goals, just three of them from the field. That's 11 shutouts, and two of them came in Saturday's state championship games here at Mercer County Park. Willingboro's Maggie Anderson posted a 3-0 shutout against Morris Knolls, while Haddonfield's Leslie Faucett whitewashed Four WHllingboro By MARY ELLEN DRISCOLL Courier-Post Staff TRENTON In a couple of days, Moorestown High's field hockey team will realize it IS the NJSIAA Group 3 state co-champion. The realization will sink in, really it will. Nancy Brady's penalty goal with just over 11 minutes left in the game gave Ramsey a 1-1 tie with the Quakers for the co-championship.

The tie capped an afternoon of frustration for Moorestown, which is not what most of the Quakers expected it to be. Moorestown easily dominated the early going, keeping the pressure constant on Ramsey goalie Peggy Mashig. Only a spectacular performance by fullback Nannette Hart-man, who seemed to have a stick on every Moorestown shot, prevented a rollup score. Hartman's play ahnost-singlehandedly prevented any kind of score, however, until midway -through the period, when Mary Allen's clean shot through the middle gave Moorestown its goal for the day. "We just had so many chances to score," said Allen in a post-game atmosphere which was subdued, to put it mildly.

"We really blew it. By MARY ELLEN DRISCOLL Courier-Post Staff TRENTON All the field hockey players from Willingboro High wanted this season was a few more victories than last year. Ndthing fancy, just an improvement over a 4-9-4 What the Chimeras earned, in addition to a few more victories, was the NJSIAA Group 4 state crown, with a 3-0 win over Morris Knolls Saturday afternoon at Mercer County Park. Quite a different ending then any of them expected in the beginning of the "Everything this year's just been beautiful," said Beth Beck, who scored the winning goal two minutes Ihto the second half. "The farther along we got in the season, the more confident we became.

"It's been a combination of teamwork and dedication to each other," said the junior wing, who has spent more time setting up scorers Pam Bookman, Chris Donovan and Jackie Campbell, than scoring herself. It was that combination again which the Chimeras displayed on their way to the win. The Willingboro defense of halfbacks Heidi Tuma, Janene Murray and LindaCousins, with fullbacks Angie Hughes and Sandy Jaskol kept Morris Knolls away from goalie Maggie Anderson for most of the game. Anderson did touch the ball enough to display her agility with several glowing saves, just enough to keep the goalie buffs in the crowd satisfied. 'But, other than that, it was all Chimeras as the line kept attacking, putting pressure on the North II champion.

Barb France and Beck displayed the stickwork which brought the Burlington Counry squad GUARANTEED ELECTRONIC TUNE-UP "I think we were scared because it was the state champioship. The mere fact we had gotten as far as we did had us worried. But, that just shouldn't have been a factor." The Quaker line of Allen and Sou Brown at wing, Sue Wilkins, Barbara Deren and Marti Beard sparkled, however, with its sharp passing, good stickwork and excellent control "I don't know, it's not like it's over at all," said Brown. "The upsetting part of all this is the tie. You have to win all the games to get here, then you can't win here.

"It's disturbing to reach back inside to get something which has been there through an undefeated season (17-04 final), and find the something extra that's been there every game before this isn't there now." What was there was the Quaker's. halfbacks, sending the ball back over the half-line, preventing Ramsey from really mounting a constant attack. Except for a few scattered a 15-1-3 record before the championship game, setting up Donovan, Bookman and Campbell. Despite the Chimeras' domination, it was scoreless at the half, a tie broken quickly after half by Beck's goal. Bookman netted the second score a dozen minutes later off a Donovan pass.

A penalty shot by Tuma, her second of the year, finished up the scoring with less than a minute left in the game. "Once we had gotten this far, we knew it was too late to turn back," said Beck. "Today, we did it for the seniors. Once we had gotten this far, we were afraid of losing, and they really kept us going." "One of the big reasons for everything that's happened this year wasn't on the field," said Murray, a senior along with Hughes, France, Tuma Donovan, Cousins's Anderson. "Miss DiCola (Chimera coach Linda DiCola) has been there whenever we've needed her.

She brings us up when we get a little down, keeps us disciplined both with others and within oursleves and keeps at us to keep working at it." Willingboro gives the impression of working as hard at its friendships as its plays. It ranks in near the top in South Jersey in team meetings and "The bus trip here was subdued," said Beck, "much more so than usual. We were quiet, rather than rowdy. Janene went around to everybody and reminded them that there would be 22 players who wanted this game and we had to prove we wanted it more." or (215) 923-2044 run roup And c3 Liu With Most Amor 4 Cyl Cars MostAnef.eCyl Cars PAY 9Q95 PAY .1935 PAY 3995 LSI! V7Ea We TUNE-UP and SERVICE all makea of Foreign Cars at a comparable low price. YOU Pequannock, 2-0.

Moorestown goalie Cathy Costello was beaten by a penalty flick in the title game against Ramsey, but that was the only goal any norvSouth Jersey team could put past these three tough defenses. The other three goals were all scored by South Jersey teams. Bridgeton managed a tally against Willingboro in the South Jersey Group 4 semifinal. Buena dented the Haddonfield defense in the opening round of the South Jersey Group 2 tournament before the Haddons rolled to four straight 2-0 shutouts, and perennially-tough Collingswood managed the only goal from the field against Moorestown in the South Jersey Group 3 championship game. The defenses were superb in Saturday's title games.

Second-year goalie Anderson sparked Willingboro's defense, with strong support from fullbacks Angie Hughes and Sandy Jaskol and halfbacks Heidi Tuma, Janene Murray and Linda Cousins. It was the Chimeras fourth tournament shutout, including an impressive 2-0 whitewashing of last year's state champion, Toms River South. Anderson, Hughes and Murray were spectacular in the largely veteran unit, but, surprisingly, neither the goalie nor her fullback is a longtime defensive player. "This is just my second year of Anderson explained. "All my friends were playing, so I decided to go out.

Goalie was the only position open, so I went out for it." Hughes started as a wing, played center halfback on the junior varsity last year and was converted to fullback this year. "Miss (Linda) coach, wanted me at fullback," the senior defender said. "It was hard getting used to not running all over the field, but now I like defense." In contrast, Haddonfield's defense is mostly underclassmen. Captain Jodie Koontz is the lone senior, and she's teamed with Louise Leimkuhler, Donna Rexon, Laura Miller, Donna Shaw and goalie Leslie Faucett for an impressive 13 shutouts in 21 games. "My defense has been magnificent all year," raved coach Ellie Kind.

"This defense is very proud of itself and doesn't like to allow goals." Moores town's tough defense, anchored by fullback Vlcki Bovo-so and goalie Costello along with halfbacks Debbie and Lisa Adams and Debbie Wetberill and fullback Patti White, shut down Ramsey's powerful attack, denying the North Jersey champions a score from the field. Time and again, Ramsey would attack, only to be sent scurrying back on defense by the superb defensive work of the Quakers. "It's tough to be scored on by a penalty flick," Quaker coach Barb Esbjornson said, "but it's part of the game. Our defense has played well all year." These TUNE-UP FEATURES a 40 POINT ELECTRONIC ANALYSIS! a NEW SPARK PLUGS! a NEW POINTS! a NEW CONDENSER! a CHECK PCU VALVE a CHECK GAS FILTER! 11 a 30 PRECISION TUNE-UP STEPS! a ELECTRONIC CARBURETOR ADJUSTMENTS! MostAmer.eCylCars a A. PLUS in You get All these Winterizing Services FREE! I CHECK FAN BELT! a CHECK BATTERY! a CHECK HEATER! a CHECK OIL! a CHECK ANTIFREEZE! a CHECK TRANS FLUID! a CHECK HEATER HOSES! a CHECK BRAKE FLUID! JOINING -UP 03 Black Horse Pike.

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