ANDOVER – Andover field hockey players over the last four years had the opportunity to play every single game available to MIAA teams by reaching each of the last four Div. 1 state finals – a privilege senior midfielder Avery Pitts is hungry to earn once again.

Treating a signature regular season matchup, like the one against Newburyport on Thursday night, as if it were a tournament game helps prepare for the intensity those actual tournament games require.

Well, if the 2-0 win the No. 9 Golden Warriors pulled out over the No. 21 Clippers is any indication, that’s an intensity Andover showed it’s ready to translate.

Caroline Vaughan and Ella Sewall each scored in the first four minutes of the third quarter, separating Andover in an otherwise cutthroat contest loaded with dangerous threa

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