The ball seems to gravitate to Alaina Lomonaco when a title is on the line in overtime. The senior powered Clearview to a Group 3 state title with a double overtime game-winner almost a year ago to the day. On Wednesday, she put her team one win away from completing a repeat.
In typical Clearview fashion, it wasn’t easy on the heart or the stomach. After Charlotte Coskery buried the game-tying goal for Shawnee on an extended corner at the end of regulation, Clearview fell back on the experience that had taken it to consecutive Group 3 finals and went back to work. Lomonaco found herself in the perfect spot five yards in front of the cage after an elite chip pass from Marley Dutch, made a quick move to the forehand to get around a diving Brenna Fitzpatrick and flipped it into the empty cage.
11/13 - 3:00 PM Field Hockey Final Clearview 3 Shawnee 2 Her second goal of the game with 45 seconds left in overtime lifted fourth-seeded Clearview, No. 14 in the NJ.com Top 20, to a gutsy 3-2 win over third-seeded and No.
9 Shawnee in the final round of the South Jersey, Group 3 Tournament in Medford. That’s Clearview’s third consecutive sectional title. “I really just know It’s do or die in overtime, and we want to score, we want to win,” she said.
“It’s all about who’s got that extra grit in them and is willing to put the ball in the back of the net. I know our team worked really hard. I saw Marley Dutch coming up with the ball, so I was going to do everything I can g.