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North Andover's Isabela Miller scored a pair of goals and Brooks field hockey took home the NEPSAC Class B championship with a 3-0 victory over Rivers on Sunday.

NORTH ANDOVER — The Brooks field hockey team certainly played up to its No. 1 seed at Home Saturday, rolling over St. Marks in the Class B prep semifinals.

The unbeaten Green and White (16-0-2) led 1-0 at halftime on a goal by Caroline O'Keefe and pulled away in the second half on goals by Charlotte Marks and Lucy Verdone. Goalie Katie Wimmer of Windham made two saves to notch her 11th shutout of the season.

MARION — The unbeaten Phillips Academy field hockey team got some meaningful revenge Saturday.

Defeated by Greewich Academy in the Class A prep finals last year, the Big Blue rallied for a 2-1 victory in the Class A semifinals Saturday and will play in the finals at 2 p.m. today at Choate against Hotchkiss.

Senior Caroline O'Keefe scored in overtime with 3:32 left on an assist from Andover's Lucy Adams to keep Brooks field hockey undefeated (15-0-2) with a 2-1 victory over Pomfret in the quarterfinals of the Class B tournament. Top-seeded Brooks will now host No. 3 seed St. Mark's in the semifinals at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Top-seeded Phillips Academy coasted into the prep Class A field hockey semifinals with a 4-0 victory over Taft. Four different players scored and Windham's Katie Wimmer recorded her 11th shutout of the season. Phillips will not face Greenwich, Conn. in the semifinals Saturday at a site to be determined. Grrenwich defeated Phillips in the finals last year.

Hannah Cuff of Andover, in her first game back from an ankle injury, scored the game's only goal as the Phillips Academy field hockey team remained unbeaten (14-0) with a 1-0 win over Phillips Exeter. Goalie Katie Wimmer of Windham got her 10th shutout of the year.

Sydney Gregory took the ball in from the right side and slid it across to Hanna Medwar, who buried the goal that gave No. 8 Andover a thrilling 2-1 double-overtime victory over No. 4 Natick in the Division 1 North semifinals on Thursday.

Brooks field hockey won the ISL title after beating Milford Academy 5-0. Andover's Lucy Adams and North Andover's Caroline Kukas both scored for Brooks, which also got its 10th shutout of the year from goalie Emma Houlihan.

Junior Kate Gemmell with 1:31 left in the half and No. 8 Andover toppled top-seeded archrival Acton-Boxboro, 1-0, in the Division 1 North quarterfinals. It was Andover's first shot of the game and the Golden Warriors only attempted two shots all game. Andover played with an extra sweeper and A-B got off 11 shots and won on corners as well by an 11-4 margin. Andover's extra sweeper was sophomore Alana Miller and she came up big. The defending state champions got a big game from Alison Gasperoni, who stopped 11 shots. Carissa Agostino, Joanna Archambault and Sydney Gregory also were stars on defense.

Trailing by two goals with 3:30 left in the game, No. 8 Pentucket field hockey rallied all the way back to tie the game on a Meghan Bean goal with 0:50 left in regulation.

Junior Isabela Miller of North Andover scored the game-winner to keep Brooks unbeaten (12-0-1) in field hockey with a 2-1 victory over BB&N. Lucy Adams of Andover had two assists. 

Just 38 seconds into double overtime, Andover's Joanna Archambault broke right with the ball and sprinted 30 yards before reaching the top of the circle. From there, the senior fired a shot that went over the goalie's head to give the No. 8-seeded Warriors a dramatic 2-1 win over No. 9 Winchester in the Division 1 North first round.

Carly Kreytac scored the game-winner in overtime to lift Phillips Academy's unbeaten field hockey team (12-0) over Nobles 2-1. Marisol Nugent also scored for the Big Blue.

Isabel Putnam made 22 saves and Claudia Crowe amd Rebecca Marchand both scored goals but Methuen couldn't pull off the upset, falling to Lexington 3-2 in the Division 1 North first round.