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Domurat, Poly Prep push past Fieldston in double OT

Poly Prep celebrates a goal.

Poly Prep celebrates a goal. (Denis Gostev)

Poly Prep knew that a win wasn’t going to come easily.

“It was a battle,” said Poly Prep head coach Anni Zukauskas. “We needed that experience.”

It took overtime to decide a victor, but Poly Prep was able to gut out a 16-14 victory over Fieldston in girl’s lacrosse Wednesday at Fieldston HS in the Bronx.

Poly Prep had penalty trouble, but still notched its second win of the season over Fieldston and was led by five tallies from Jane Tewksbury and four goals by Sam Domurat, two of which came in the extra frame.

Domurat’s most important goals of the game came in the first overtime of the season for Poly Prep. After Kiera French scored her second goal of the game to hand a lead to Poly Prep with 2:06 left in the first half of overtime, Domurat scored a crucial goal just a minute later to give Poly Prep a 15-13 edge.

Just 20 seconds later, Jill Gold scored her fourth of the game for Fieldston. Poly Prep was able to stave off Fieldston in the second half of overtime, keeping the ball from the Eagles for most of the frame before Domurat scored her second extra time goal at the buzzer to seal the win.

“We showed a lot of character today,” Domurat said. “I got a lot of support from my teammate and got a couple of goals there. It felt really good to be lifted up to that level.”

It was a hard fought victory for Poly Prep. With just 31.7 seconds remaining in regulation Tewksbury notched her fifth goal of the game, breaking the tie and giving Poly Prep a 13-12 lead. The game was knotted again just 14 seconds later when Jenna Chasanoff scored for Fieldston with just 17 seconds remaining in regulation. The goal forced overtime, but Poly Prep eventually took over and won.

“I pushed to the goal,” said Tewksbury. “We knew we had to bring back the lead and it took a little pressure off. After they got it right back we knew we had to keep our head in the game. We knew we had to push hard in overtime.”

Poly Prep spread the scoring around as aside from Tewksbury, Domurat and French, Rosie Silber-Marker hit the net three times and Jessica Dahldorf scored twice. Meanwhile, Fieldston also had a lot of contributors as Gold and Chloe Chasanoff each scored four times, Jenna Chasanoff hit the net three times and Ryan Peer, Rowyn Paul and Emily Hamilton each notched one.

“This was our fourth overtime [period] of the season,” said Fieldston head coach Sara Gorman. “They worked hard and [the Chasanoffs] are a nice little duo. My team is starting to become more confident in their abilities to go to the goal.”

Ovie Kabba got the win between the pipes for Poly Prep while stopping nine shots. Sydney Bryant was in net for Fieldston and saved eight.

It was a bounce back league win for Poly Prep as it was coming off a recent loss against Riverdale.

“They needed that,” said Zukauskas. “It’s a competitive league right now and the measure right now is who wants it more. My team wants it now but they have to show up every game and prove it.”