Mamaroneck Beats Scarsdale 3-1 in Field Hockey

In a battle of two of the best field hockey teams in Section 1, the Mamaroneck Tigers and the Scarsdale Raiders matchup lived up to the hype.

With two goals by Mamaroneck's Alicia Meglio, the Tigers were able to hold on and defeat the Raiders by a score of 3-1.

The game was a defensive battle with each team getting few chances throughout and doing its best to capitalize whenever those chances did come up.

In the first half, Meglio helped to get Mamaroneck on the board first. It was a  big goal to give Mamaroneck some added confidence going forward in such a big game.

Madeleine Despins was able to get a second goal for Mamaroneck with just under seven minutes left in the first half to extend the lead to 2-0. Neither team scored for the rest of the half.

Coming out of for the second half, the first few minutes were going to be key for both sides as the next goal would either cut Mamaroneck's lead down to a single goal or extend it to three.

Scarsdale came out like a team on a mission and was able to keep possession for the first few moments of the second half was able to get the goal it needed.

Scarsdale's Sydney Maisch was able to find the back of the net and cut the lead to 2-1 and the momentum was in the Raiders' favor.

The game was back and forth for the moments following the goal as Scarsdale was trying hard to find that second goal and tie the game.

For Mamaroneck head coach John Savage, he felt that the goal by Scarsdale was a wake-up call for his team to get its game back in order.

"I think that goal kind of woke them up," he said. "We weren't ready, we were falling asleep out there, we had a two-goal lead, maybe we weren't playing with a little desperation and being aware."

The wake up did help matters for the Tigers as once again Meglio was able to extend the lead back to two with her second goal of the game and give her team a lead it wouldn't relinquish.

Scarsdale head coach Sharon Rosenthal talked about the game and how her team played hard at the beginning and end of the game, but seemed to lose something in the middle.

"I think we came out strong to start and then we ended strong, and somewhere in the middle we got a little off,"  she said.

With these two teams about to face off against each other again on Thursday and the playoffs right around the corner, there is a lot to play for these two teams.

For Savage, he knows that his team can enjoy the win for now, but will have to get back to work soon. Very soon.

"They can enjoy it for about an hour or two and then they got to forget it and then we got to become the best field hockey team we can on Thursday, and do it again," he said.