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Photos by
Robert Inglis/The Daily ItemSelinsgrove-s Ashtin Klingler
tries to work her way around Bloomsburg-s Rachel Wardrop
during Wednesday-s District 4 championship game.

Robert
Inglis /

Published
November 04, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the characteristics of a championship team
is the ability to make adjustments. Boy, did Selinsgrove ever adjust
on Wednesday.

High
school field hockey: Seals unload for 5 second-half goals en route
to fifth straight D-4 title
Seals score 5 2nd-half goals en route to
5th straight D-4 title

By Matt
Corbett
The Daily Item

LEWISBURG -- One of the characteristics of
a championship team is the ability to make adjustments. Boy, did
Selinsgrove ever adjust on Wednesday.

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After a scoreless first half, the Seals
adjusted to the tune of five second-half goals in rolling to their
fifth consecutive District 4 Class AA title with a 5-0 victory over
previously unbeaten Bloomsburg at Bucknell University's Graham
Field.

The Seals (20-1), seeded No. 2 in
districts, will make their eighth consecutive trip to the PIAA Class
AA tournament beginning next week. Selinsgrove will take on the
second-place team from District 11 on Tuesday at a site and time to
be determined. Top seed Bloomsburg (19-1), making its first
appearance at states, will play the runner-up from District 3, with
the site and time pending.

The Panthers' game plan was simple enough:
pack the circle with enough players to create multiple layers of
defenders between the cage and Selinsgrove's bevy of goal-scorers.
It worked for a half, but the Seals made the necessary changes
during the five-minute intermission.

"We talked about creating more corners and
more breakaways," said Seals coach Cathy Keiser. "Our forwards
needed to be more active, and we needed to be quicker on our free
hits. We just needed to create more space and move more in the
circle.

"My assistants (Roz Camp and Cheri Long)
do a great job of seeing what's going on. Having more eyes is
certainly helpful."

The shift in strategy paid off almost
immediately, when Hope Burke converted off pads just a minute and a
half into the second 30 minutes on a play that began with a free hit
from the Bloomsburg 28.

"You struggle so much for that first goal,
and then after that they start believing in themselves again,"
Keiser said.

Ashtin Klingler made it 2-0 at the 20:30
mark off an assist from Gina Kellett on the last of four consecutive
Selinsgrove corners. The Seals produced 16 of their 20 corners in
the second half.

Just a minute later, it was 3-0 when
Candice Smith scored off an assist from Rachael Lawton -- again, off
a corner.

"Before the game we discussed how the
first 15 minutes were crucial, and I can't say enough about how we
played in the first half. We couldn't leave anybody inside the 25
open. We had to mark them, and everybody stepped up," said
Bloomsburg coach Chuck Baker. "The problem was the first 15 minutes
of the second half. We had a lapse of about seven to eight minutes
there, and (Selinsgrove) had more people crashing the cage in the
second half. It's hard to pick up that many loose people."

The Seals made it 4-0 at the 14:20 mark
when Klingler scored off pads following a free hit from the right
side, and Coli Deckard added the final score with just under a
minute remaining off an assist from Smith.

"We knew we were controlling the game (in
the first half)," Keiser said. "We just had to step it up in the
second half."

Baker noted how the game changed following
Klingler's first goal, the second of the game.

"Their first two goals were scrambles in
front of the cage. After (it became 2-0), our game plan had to
change after that," he said.

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