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"TV PageB4 Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 Daily Record DailyRecord.com evils toBiule Laker Bine -TV I 1 ifj I' at yl i Mountain Lakes forward Casey Drollinger (center) makes her way through two Shore Regional defenders in the NJSIAA Group I field hockey semifinal Thursday at West Essex, a game won by Shore, 3-2. courtesy of jim hague big time. the second half." The lakers finally broke through and scored jist 3:20 into the second half. Casey D-ollinger, who stick handling skills reembled Wayne Gretzky all game, naneuvered her way up the right side of tie field, then fired a pass in front, vhere Lee alertly knocked it home, lead in half and giving Mountain Laes a ton of hope and even more momeitum.

weren't able to get the ball up the field, lut then Casey provided a spark for the of the team," Buckley said. Ths Lakers then withstood a mountain of pressure, as the Blue Devils collected come shot after corner shot in the second hilf "Cur corner defense was said. Tcdero, who was marvelous all day in stop; ing attempts all over the field, made one itop too many. She was whistled for toucning the ball in the penalty area, giviig Johnson a chance at a penalty strode. Johnson lifted the shot high over a sprawling Kyritsis with 11 minutes left tha pushed the lead to 3-1.

3ut the Lakers weren't done. With the winding down, Lee broke past the Bhe Devils defense and got a shot on Slure goalie Shannon Johnson that was intially stopped. But Lee followed the play, got the rebound and put it in the gcal with a pretty backhand attempt, siting the lead to 3-2. i However, the upset just wasn't meant tcbe, as the Lakers didn't have another scoring opportunity. The heavy favorite noved on to yet another state final, but it ddn't come without a big-time fight from tie underdog who came really close to turning yet another boat.

I "I'm really proud of my team," Kyrit-jis said. "At the end, we gave it all we iiad." "We all knew what we could do," Lee said. "It was just a matter of proving it to others. I'm not upset that we lost. I'm happy with the way we played.

I'm just sad it's all over and sad I'm losing my teammates." Shore gets a chance to play for a 12th state championship. Mountain Lakes gets the satisfaction that the Lakers didn't just roll over and allow them to roll by. "The result was a phenomenal season," Buckley said. "It's an outstanding group of kids." By Jim Hague For NJ Press Media NORTH CALDWELL The Shore Regional field hockey team entered Thursday afternoon's NJSIAA Group I semifinal against Mountain Lakes with a pristine 22-0 record. The program had captured 11 state championships during the years.

They had the top goal scorer in the state in Aileen Johnson, who had a ridiculous total of 56 goals before play Thursday. Shore Regional was also the No. 2-ranked team in the entire state. All of those impressive facts and figures meant absolutely nothing to the Lakers. "I personally didn't know their record or anything about them," said Lakers senior goalkeeper Evie Kyritsis.

"I didn't know anything at all." "Our coach (Coleen Buckley) didn't tell us anything at all about them," said junior forward Lizzie Lee. "We weren't going to focus on them. We were going to focus on ourselves." The anonymous oblivious approach seemed to work for the Lakers, because they gave the heavily favored Blue Devils everything they could have asked for -and more in a highly competitive and intense contest at West Essex High School. Sure, Shore Regional came away with a 3-2 victory, but it didn't come as easily as anticipated. That is, by everyone else except the Lakers.

"We knew that Shore had a good team, but it was nothing we dwelled upon," Buckley said. "We try to focus on ourselves. Earlier in the year, we focused on the other team and their top scorer and that ended up causing us to lose. We were no longer going to do that, no matter who we were playing." The Blue Devils (23-0) totally dominated the action. The ball was consistently in the Lakers' end of the field.

They accumulated an amazing 32 corner shots, compared to just six for Mountain Lakes. Kyritsis was practically standing on her head in goal, collecting an astounding 27 saves. Three times, defender Jenna Tod-ero made acrobatic goal line saves and fellow defender Lauren Lubowitz stopped one that trickled along the line. But the Lakers were not going to give in. "We were going to leave it all on the field," Kyritsis said.

"This was my last year and I wasn't going to go down without a fight." It didn't take long for Shore to grab the lead on the upstart Lakers (17-5). Alyssa Ercolino scored on a hard blast on a pass from Johnson that eluded Kyritsis just 2:09 into the game, giving Shore the lead for good. "I guess that woke me up, I guess," said Kyritsis, who was downright brilliant from that point on. Ercolino added her second goal of the game at the 12-minute mark and the Blue Devils had things under control. It looked as if the rout was on.

But veteran Shore Regional head coach Nancy Williams, one of the most successful coaches in New Jersey field hockey history, knew that the Lakers were not done. "That's a team with 16 seniors," Williams said. "They were not about to walk away without putting up a fight. I knew that they would fight to the very end. We had the lead, but I knew they would come back.

A lot of people said that this game was going to be a joke, but I knew differently." The Blue Devils kept up the pressure throughout the first half, but Kyritsis continued to make one spectacular save after another. "Their goalie did a phenomenal job," Williams said. "She kept them in the game." "Evie has been outstanding," Buckley said. "She's totally underrated as a goalkeeper. She's brought so much leadership to this team and she works so hard." With about five minutes left before halftime, something clicked with the Lakers and they turned up the intensity.

Maybe it was part of the history lesson they received from one of the Lakers' fathers, teaching them about the legend of the Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes and his journey through Mexico in 1519 and his battles with famed ruler of the Aztec Empire, Mexican warrior Montezuma. "When Cortes got to Mexico, he instructed his soldiers to burn the boats," Buckley said. "It was their only choice." So "Burn the Boats" became the Lakers' battle cry and Wednesday night, before facing Shore Regional, the Lakers had a motivational bonfire where they actually burned a wooden boat. "We invited different members of our alumni, from past championship teams (1999 and 2005, the last time Mountain Lakes reached a state semifinal) to show these girls that they weren't playing for themselves, but for all of Mountain Lakes," Buckley said. With a huge sign proclaiming "Burn the Boats" on the sidelines, the Lakers came out inspired in the second half.

"I think we're more of a second half team anyway," Lee said. "We kicked it up James Hague: ogsmaraol.com Zucker is ready for network role v-1 -M 1 ff--A-x i minute. After that audition, about a month went by and then I got the call in August 2003 to be a part of CSTV's broadcast team." In November 2005, CBS bought CSTV and rebranded it, originally creating CBS College Sports Network the original, 24-hour cable network dedicted to college sports before ultimately renaming it CBS Sports Network. "Besides getting this opportunity to host College Football Today, one of the other big moments in my career was when producer Harold Bryant called me to let me know that he was looking forward to having me be part of the future of CBS Sports Network," Zucker said. "I've received some major breaks during my career.

This was one of them." With CBS Sports Network, Zucker serves as host of Inside College Football and Inside College Basketball, as well as the in-studio host of the network's live half-time and postgame shows for college football and basketball. He also hosts the network's coverage of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championships, College World Series and Men's and Women's Lacrosse Championships, and narrates many of the network's original programs and documentaries. "I love what I do," Zucker said. "If this is my last job in this business, I'll be perfectly happy. I don't worry about what I'll do next, because I can't imagine a better TV job than the one I do now.

I know how lucky I am that certain things broke my way." By David Biggy Staff write-When CBS bought College Sports Television in 2005, Adam Zucker could have been kicked to the curb. Instead, CBS kept Zucker in his position as studio host and anchor of the rebranded CBS Sports Network and now, six years later, he's going to get his shot to be the main network host of College Football Today during the network's SEC double-header on Saturday. "This is a big deal for me," said Zucker, who grew up in Mountain Lakes and now lives in Summit with his wife, Rachel, and son, Max. "After CBS bought us, I was just glad to have a job. Now, after being here six years, it's a major honor to fill in for Tim Brando as the host of this show.

This is one of the greatest opportunities of my life." i Now 35, Zucker got his start in television right after graduation from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1998, taking on a sports reporter role for WTVH, the CBS affiliate in Syracuse. The following year, he joined WBRE in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, where he covered Penn State football, the Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Penguins and numerous top minor-league affiliates as a sports anchor and reporter. In 2003, Zucker's agent contacted him with an audition spot for an upstart college sports cable network, College Sports Television, based in New York City. "My goal had been to be a sportscaster in New York," he said. "So, I got a call for this audition and the first thing I had to do for the audition was to stand out on Chelsea Piers and talk about myself for a Parsippany's Tiffany Kelly takes a shot on goal as Madison goalkeeper Megan Calcaterra defends in the North 2 Group II girls soccer sectional final in Madison, staff photo: bob karp injuries we've had, I need the second one.

Girls have stepped up, whether it's a JV girl, we switched goalies in the middle of the year, and I had two girls in my starting lineup who didn't start playing soccer until their sophomore year of high school. The list goes on of the girls who have stepped up, and the whole team collectively." Lauren Knego: 973-428-6674; lknegogannett.com Madison 1, Parsippany 0 "Madison is a very defensively solid team, and we knew that going in," Red Hawks coach Greg Geary said. "They've held down leads all year. They get the one big goal and their defense has proved that they can shut it down for a solid 80 minutes. That's what we did today.

They put the ball in the back of the net and we didn't." Scalfani made six saves for Parsippany (13-5-3), while Calcaterra made 10 saves for her 15th shutout of the season. "It's just something we've all been working for this whole season, and even last season," Calcaterra said. "This has been our goal since last November. And it's great to be MADISON Continued from Page B1 The Red Hawks came close to tying the game a few times toward the end of the second half. Dodg-.

ers goalie Meg Calcaterra went to save a direct kick with 11:26 left, but dropped the ball near the goal line. Multiple Parsip-pany players tried in vain to get the ball across, but Madison cleared the box to keep its lead intact. Then, with under 2 minutes remaining, Par-sippany had the ball in Madison's zone, and after frenzied passing, sophomore midfielder Melissa Kelly got the ball outside the box but her shot went ovjr the goal. here now and finally achieve that goal that we all really wanted." Even though the season has come to an end, Parsippany had an impressive year. In Cleary's first season as head coach, the Red Hawks made it to the Morris County Tournament quarterfinals, and then beat Ridgefield Park, Bernards and West Essex in a shootout to advance to the sectional final.

"It has been a heck of a first season, I'm a lucky coach," Cleary said. "These girls come and work hard every day, and they're very resilient. We've been up against adversity all year. You know how you say you can count things on one hand, I think with the number of Parsippany (l 3-5-3) 0.0 Madison (15-4-1) 0 1 GOALS: (M) Zimmerman. ASSISTS: (M) McCarw.

SAVES: (M) Calcaterra 10; (P) Scalfani 6. David Biggy: 732-643-4285; dbiggy njpressmedia.com.