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No. 4 North Andover outshot No. 12 Brookline 29-6 on its way to a 4-1 quarterfinal victory in the Division 1 North playoffs. 

Meg Twomey and Michelle Martin each scored in the final five minutes of the first half to give the Scarlet Knights a 2-0 halftime lead. 

With the score tied at 1-1, North Andover capped a Cape Ann League championship season with a classic goal.

Amanda Foote smartly crossed the ball which deflected off Sarah Warden's stick into the air. Enter Michelle Martin, who swatted the ball out of mid-air and drilled it for the game-winner with about 10 minutes to play.

In a game that decided the CAL championship, North Andover (14-1-3) downed Wilmington (12-2-4) 4-1 behind three goals from the Knights' three senior captains. Candie Waldie, Sarah Warden and Meg Twomey all scored in the first half to give North Andover a lead it would never relenguish. Krysta Perryman added a second-half tally and Steph Twomey made three saves in net.

North Andover's field hockey team blanked Hamilton-Wenham 3-0 to clinch at least a share of the Cape Ann League large school title. A victory against Wilmington today will give the title to the Knights outright.

North Andover used two goalies, Meg Foster and Steph Twomey in a 3-0 field hockey win over Pentucket and neither one had a save. Michelle Martin led the offense for the Knights (11-1-3) with two goals.

Rebounding from a tying Triton goal late in the first half, North Andover's Sarah Warden scored in the first minute of the second half and the rout was on in a defining 4-1 victory.

North Andover goalkeeper Meg Foster made a key stop on a penalty shot late in the second half to preserve a 0-0 tie with Newburyport.

Junior midfielder Amanda Foote notched her first two goals of the season and added two assists as North Andover field hockey roughed up Ipswich, 5-0.

"It was the Battle of the Breens,'' said North Andover field hockey coach Courtney Breen after her club beat North Reading, 4-0. The Hornets are coached by her sister Linsday. "We'd never coached against each other. I coached St. A's and she played at Stonehill. She won every time. I think three times. It wasn't really revenge. She's done an amazing job with the program.''

Star forward Candace Waldie is still out with a knee injury, but it hasn't slowed down the North Andover field hockey team much.

The Knights blanked Rockport 1-0 yesterday, outshooting their opponents 26-3, while improving their record to 7-1-2.