BLOOMFIELD HILLS – It may be field hockey’s first fall as a sport sanctioned by MHSAA, but Cranbrook-Kingswood and Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett are no strangers to one another.

University Liggett, the reigning Catholic League’s Bishop Division champions, converted their chances at a good clip in the circle to beat the host Cranes 5-1 on Monday evening.

The stakes may be raised now that MHSAA will hand out a state championship, but the Cranes and Knights did battle twice last season and have been posturing to be atop a balanced Catholic League — a different team has won the Bishop title the past four years — for longer than that.

“(Liggett’s) a really tough team,” Cranbrook head coach Jordan Yagiela said. “We usually see them pretty deep in the Catholic League finals, and we’ve

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