In its first season as a Class C team, Bayport-Blue Point field hockey wasted no time making a statement.

Formerly a Class B team, Bayport-Blue Point won the Long Island Class C final in a 1-0 decision over reigning champion Carle Place . Senior captain Lexie Kennedy scored the Phantoms’ lone goal in the fourth quarter.

Bayport-Blue Point (16-1) will advance to the NYSPHSAA semifinals, where they will face the winner of Rondout Valley (Section IX) and Little Falls (Section III) at 2 p.m. Saturday at Arlington High School. Carle Place finished 11-5.

“These girls have worked so hard all season and they earned this,” said coach Karen Gick. “They left everything they had on the field today. We knew that as long as these girls gave it everything they got — heart and hustle — this would

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