Monday, September 26, 2011

Weekend update!

So this past weekend, the girls had a challenging match against top seated Sachem East High School. The arrows beat the tornadoes 4-0, but the girls played very well. I have to make note of the defensive in the game because watching the girls double team, channel and step up was like watching a college game. I was very proud of all of our girls overall defense.

And to Ms. Stephanie Zamow!! Who was our player of the game!! Steph showed such poise, composure and tenacity in the back field! It is everything we expected and more!! Congrats on a job well done!!

Tomorrow the girls will play Smithtown East @ 4:30 pm! See you there!!

Friday, September 23, 2011

3-1

Yesterday, HFFH faced Ward Melville and it was quite an exciting match! The girls played a phenomenal game against the Patriots, but couldn't grab the win. Junior Isabelle "wex" Wecshler scored both goals for the tornadoes of the 3-2 final score. The first goal was scored when the tornadoes were awarded a penalty stroke. Wex placed the ball in the top left corner making the game 1-0. The Patriots came back and scored two back to back goals making it 2-1. Two minutes before the end of the first half, Wex scored again off a penalty corner rebound to make the score 2-2.

In the first 10 minutes of the second half, Ward Melville placed the ball in the back of the cage -- making the score 3-2. The score remained this way for the remainder of the game.
Though the girls lost, the match itself was a learning experience and really allowed them to grow exponentially. The coaching staff is extremely proud of their hard work and effort, and we continue to strive forward to our next game.

The next game is tomorrow Saturday Sept 24 @ Sachem East High school at 2:30pm. Hope to see you there

Player of the game: Wex
Goals: Wex (2)
Assist: Kasey Stolba (1)

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

3-0!!

On Tuesday, Sept 20th, the tornadoes faced the devils of Huntington.... and came out successful! With another shutout.. the girls came home with another big W with a score of 3-0. Kasey Stolba scored the first two goals, one coming off a corner shot. The ball came from senior Allie Gold and Kasey chip swept it into the right hand corner... a very pretty goal indeed! Kailtin Cassar scored her first goal of the season making the score 3-0. Goals assisted were by Allie Gold and Katie DeNicola.

Morgan Lange had six saves for the game... another shutout!


And Congrats to our player of the game....
Kailtin Cassar!

Tomorrow, the tornadoes will face the Long Island State Champions - Ward Melville. Game starts at 4:15pm! See you there! Go Tornadoes!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Game day!

Come check out HFFH when they play the Blue Devils of Huntington @ 4pm today! Here we go Tornadoes!



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Congratulations Kasey!

Kasey was just named lead scorer for Newsday this week! Here are the stats!


Field hockey leaders

from www.newsday.com/sports/highschool/leaders

 

Goals

  Player Class Pos School Goals
1 Taylor Mills -- -- Sayville 7
2 Kasey Stolba -- -- Harborfields 5
3 Carie Znaniecki -- -- Comsewogue 5
4 Liz Athing -- -- Bay Shore 5
5 Erin Dougherty -- -- Comsewogue 5
6 Lindsay Ahrens -- -- North Shore 5
7 Preston Tansill -- -- Locust Valley 4
8 Katie DeNicola -- -- Harborfields 4
9 Hannah Kaiser -- -- Oyster Bay 4
10 Keeling Pilaro -- -- Southampton 4

 

Assists

  Player Class Pos School Assists
1 Kasey Stolba -- -- Harborfields 5
2 Alyssa Groneman -- -- East Islip 4
3 Olivia Cabral -- -- Sayville 4
4 Meagan Cook -- -- Northport 4
5 Meredith Bushell -- -- Shoreham-Wading River 4
6 Kelsey Catalano -- -- Ward Melville 3
7 Samantha Flood -- -- Bay Shore 3
8 Meg Rooney -- -- Smithtown East 3
9 Julia Palermo -- -- Locust Valley 3
10 Bairre Reilly -- -- Locust Valley 3

 

Total Points:

  Player Class Pos School Points
1 Kasey Stolba -- -- Harborfields 10
2 Taylor Mills -- -- Sayville 8
3 Meg Rooney -- -- Smithtown East 6
4 Keeling Pilaro -- -- Southampton 6
5 Carie Znaniecki -- -- Comsewogue 6
6 Preston Tansill -- -- Locust Valley 6
7 Kelsey Catalano -- -- Ward Melville 5
8 Liz Athing -- -- Bay Shore 5
9 Meagan Cook -- -- Northport 5
10 Alex Hagney -- -- Comsewogue 5
11 Alyssa Groneman -- -- East Islip 5
12 Sariah Casiero -- -- Pierson/ Bridgehampton 5
13 Meredith Bushell -- -- Shoreham-Wading River 5
14 Katie DeNicola -- -- Harborfields 5
15 Erin Dougherty -- -- Comsewogue 5
16 Olivia Cabral -- -- Sayville 5
17 Lexi Richards -- -- Northport 5
18 Lindsay Ahrens -- -- North Shore 5
19 Torrye Zullo -- -- Connetquot 4
20 Meggie Gallo -- -- Southampton 4
21 Rachel Finley -- -- Connetquot 4
22 Debi-Michelle Jantzen -- -- Shoreham-Wading River 4
23 Savannah Febesh -- -- Friends Academy 4
24 Jessica Jensen -- -- Lindenhurst 4
25 Mary Kate McCormick -- -- Comsewogue 4
- Julianna Fiorillo -- -- Sayville 4
- Hannah Kaiser -- -- Oyster Bay 4
- Jessica Lodato -- -- Commack 4
- Kaitlyn Taddio -- -- Shoreham-Wading River 4
- Vanessa Pryor -- -- Ward Melville 4     

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Weekend Update!

Hello All! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!! I wanted to give you all an update of the past 2 days!

Saturday: The HFFH Varsity and Junior Varsity teams played against the 4th ranked Northport on Saturday morning. It was a great match for the varsity team who performed very well. In the first 15 minutes the score was 2-0 Harborfields. Northport, came back in the second quarter to score three goals to make the score 3-2. In the third quarter HFFH came back to score 2 goals to take the lead 4-3. However, by the end of the third quarter, the score was tied 4-4. The game ended 5-4 Northport. Though the girls lost, it was a great game to watch on both sides. Northport has a handful of very skilled players and it was a great match for HFFH before we face some top ranked schools in the next few weeks.

Sunday:  On Sunday, HFFH hosted a field hockey clinic for the youth and future players for HFFH! 18 girls, from grades 2-6 came and participated in clinic. The Varsity and JV girls worked one on one with the "clinicers" to enhance their skills and knowledge of the game we all love. Overall success !


In future news, the HFFH has some tough competition this week! On Tuesday, HFFH will face the Huntington Devils! On Thursday, HFFH will face Long Island Champions Ward Melville and on Saturday the girls will battle the girls of Sachem East High School! Hopefully all can come and spectate but if not, I will try my best to update you all.

Go HFFH!!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

2-0!!!

Today was another big win for HFFH!!! A very big CONGRATULATIONS to HFFH on their 7-0 win against Centereach!!

The girls took initiative right away and scored 2 goals within the first 2 1/2 minutes of play. As the game continued, the game began to get a big rough. Our own Honey Roche was given a yellow card and thrown out of the game for 10 minutes with 15 minutes left in the first half  Though the call was very questionable, the girls continue to play with composure, even with one man down. By the end of the first half, the tornadoes were up 5-0.
In the second half, the girls began to really open the field and transition ball across the field, allowing for space and movement. During one of the transitions, the ball was passed up to Daniele Miltner on the forward line who gave a cross ball to freshman Sam Gray who one timed the ball into the net. A few minute later,  Kasey Stolba scored her hattrick goal, which was assisted by Caroline Saros.

Goals: Katie DiNicola (3), Kasey Stolba (3) Samantha Gray (1) [first goal for Sam!! One of our freshman!]
Assists: Katie DiNicola (1) , Kaitlin Cassar (1), Caroline Saros (1), Daniele Miltner (1), Kasey Stolba (2)

Goalies: Morgan Lange and Chandler Banks had a shutout!!

Player of the Game: Kasey Stolba

Our Next game will be on Saturday Sept 17 at 10 am at Harborfields--- our first homegame!!

Congratulations girls once again on a job well done!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Big Win!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HF VARSITY FH TEAM!!

For all of you who couldn't come to our game today, HFFH beat Bayport Bluepoint 6-2 ! A huge victory for the Tornados as we now enter our season!!

Stats:
Kasey Stolba: 2 goals, 2 assists
Daniele Miltner: 2 goals
Katie DiNicola: 1 goal 1 assist
Melanie Gray: 1 goal (first varsity game too!)
Allie Gold: 1 assist

Morgan Lange: 2 saves
Chandler Banks: 1 save


This is a great start to our season! But we still have a long season ahead! Let's keep it up!! Congrats again HFFH!!

Player of the Game: Honey Roche

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

BBQ~

    Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow after practice we have our Parent/Student Athlete BBQ at 5:30 pm at Harborfields High School!

We will enjoy the BBQ, eat some food, then reconvene to the North Gym to have our meeting! We will go over the team rules, the schedule and introduce the new staff this year! See you there!!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Sept 6, 2011

It's been a few days since I last wrote on here .. but its been an extremely busy week! First off, Congratulations to all the girls who tried out and made JV and Varsity! We, the coaching staff, are very proud and impressed with all of your hard work and dedication and we are VERY excited to begin a promising season!

I would also like to Congratulation to Wex ... our Junior Captain!

I just wanted to go over the next few days so we are all aware of our schedule. This week is pretty busy !


9/7- FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! Enjoy it!!! Practice is from 3:15-5:15-- RAIN OR SHINE! Make sure you are ready to play!
9/8- Practice - 3:15-5:15 followed by the mandatory Parent-Student-Coach BBQ! @ 5:30!! (Can't wait to meet all of your parents!)
9/9- SCRIMMAGE @ SWR!!! 4pm ! --- followed by Pep Rally @ 7pm!
9/10- Homecoming--- OFF!!
9/11- Practice --- 7:45-10am


On Thursday, you will be getting a schedule for the upcoming season! Congratulations again girls and I can't wait to see how the season unfolds!