Carle Place hockey to its third consecutive LI Class C title

It doesn’t take much for the Carle Place hockey team to get going.

Nearly four minutes into the game, Marissa Nosovitch took a pass from Emi Coronel and found the back of the net to get the Frogs on the board. Then came the avalanche.

Nosovitch scored two goals and Coronel had a goal and three assists in Carle Place’s 7-0 win over Pierson/Bridgehampton in the Long Island Class C championship/Southeast regional final Sunday at Berner Middle School.

It is Carle Place’s third straight Long Island title.

“We’ve been playing together since we were little, so we have such a good bond,” said Nosovitch, a senior. “We’ve worked for this for so long.”

Carle Place kept pressure throughout the match and created twelve penalty corners. Coronel’s sister Luna scored with 5:55 left in the second quarter. Emi then assisted Sofia Henglein before scoring her own goal to give the Frogs a 5-0 lead at halftime.

“We have very good communication,” says Emi Coronel. “We all know where everyone else is and we just talk through our in-and-out passing and overlapping. We know how to move the ball smoothly and connect our passes.”

Isabella Cunha had a goal and two assists, Amanda DeMarco had a goal and an assist and Ava Gomes added an assist. Sophia Perri made six saves for Pierson/Bridgehampton (7-10).

Carle Place (14-3) will face Whitney Point (Section IV) in the state semifinals Saturday at 11 a.m. at Arlington High School. The Frogs have reached the state tournament in each of Elissa Frein’s three years as head coach, but have fallen to Whitney Point each of the last two trips. Whitney Point has won eight of the last nine Class C state crowns, with the Frogs’ last title coming in 1990.

“I think we are much better prepared this year than the last two years,” Frein said. “I don’t think we should go into it nervously. I feel like in the past we’ve gone into it thinking, ‘Oh, it’s Whitney Point.’ We are also a strong team. . . I have absolute confidence in it.”