Greetings and salutations, and welcome to Statwatch, our weekly look at the world of scholastic field hockey through its numbers and how they compare over the years. This is especially useful this time of year as just about every team out there is playing a game which could end their season; only a handful of league fixtures remain on the docket.
The statistical occurrence of this past week has to have been the 17 goals that Philadelphia Catholic League champion Radnor Archbishop Carroll (Pa.) scored in the PIAA District 12 Class AA title match against Philadelphia Academy of the Arts (Pa.). As far as we can tell, it’s the most goals one team has scored in a game this year, but we are noticing that there are a lot fewer of these type of runaway games than there were in the Score-O Decade of the 2010s.
Below is our week’s sample of stats, gathered by fine sources such as Lancaster Online, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Jersey Advance Media, the governing bodies of Kentucky and Michigan, and, of course, the easy-to-use MaxPreps.com platform. I encourage you to get your fellow teams to enter their information there as well as whichever is your local news site, so that we can aim for as complete a statistical picture of the country as possible.
MOST GOALS, SEASON
54 Liv Hess, Camp Hill (Pa.)
54 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)
50 Anna Fisher, Lancaster (Pa.) Country Day School
50 Bella Fini, Woodbury Heights Gateway (N.J.)
48 Bella Boyle, Hazleton (Pa.) Area
47 Bree Zoccolo, Lititz Warwick (Pa.)
46 Jordan Byers, Elliotsburg West Perry (Pa.)
44 Caroline Rotteveel, Lawrence (N.J.)
44 Amanda Martin, Leesburg Riverside (Va.)
41 Breanna Shorey, Belfast (Maine)
40 Lauren Schoonmaker, Accord Rondout Valley Central (N.Y.)
40 Ceci Flowers, Louisville Kentucky Country Day (Ky.)
MOST ASSISTS, SEASON
37 Sophia Sisco, North Caldwell West Essex (N.J.)
33 Stella Shuman, Louisville DuPont Manual (Ky.)
32 Autum Kernechel, Emmaus (Pa.)
31 Reid Miller, Cary (N.C.) Christian
31 Samantha Kennedy, Manassas Charles J. Colgan (Va.)
30 Adelaide Minnella, North Caldwell West Essex (N.J.)
29 Macey Torres, Pebble Beach Stevenson (Calif.)
29 Katie Crump, St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.)
28 Lily Mitchell, Leonardtown (Md.)
28 Mallory Jerlicki, Mary Institute-Country Day School (Mo.)
27 Ayla Lagasse, Biddeford (Maine)
27 Emma Haynes, West Long Branch Shore Regional (N.J.)
27 Hannah Ponciroli, St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.)
26 Scarlett Gilner, Chapel Hill (N.C.)
26 Emmy Horner, Emmaus (Pa.)
CAREER GOALS
208 Jordyn Hollamon, Delmar (Del.)
158 Molly Driscoll, Watertown (Mass.)/Andover Phillips Academy (Mass.)
151 Krista Lilienthal, Pompton Lakes (N.J.)
CAREER ASSISTS
116 Sammie Goin, Ashburn Independence (Va.)
94 Sophia Sisco, North Caldwell West Essex (N.J.)
89 Emma Haynes, West Long Branch Shore Regional (N.J.)
88 Adelaide Minnella, North Caldwell West Essex (N.J.)
CONSECUTIVE WINS
88 Watertown (Mass.)
86 Yorktown Tabb (Va.)
CONSECUTIVE UNBEATEN
88 Watertown (Mass.)
86 Yorktown Tabb (Va.)
ACTIVE COACHING VICTORIES
1089 Susan Butz-Stavin, Emmaus (Pa.)
773 Eileen Donahue, Watertown (Mass.)
739 Sharon Sarsen, Shrub Oak Lakeland (N.Y.)
I know that there are some items which are not necessarily complete, and that’s where you come in. If you see an error or omission, please feel free to send an email to us at TopOfTheCircle.com. Include some backup (a website will do), and we can make the change.
We appreciate your stopping in, and we’ll see you next week.
