Rancocas Valley went goalless in the first half of Monday’s Central Jersey Group 4 semifinal, but once its senior captain found the mark, the Red Devils cruised into the championship game
TOMS RIVER — There’s endless talk about the role of the captain.
Carly Fordham demonstrated it in full detail Monday: she points the way to victory, when a team can’t find direction.
Fordham’s goal, just 19 seconds into the second half, was the first of three Rancocas Valley scored in a 2:59 span, as the Red Devils field hockey team defeated Toms River North 4-1 in their Central Jersey Group 4 semifinal.
The Red Devils will host Lenape on Thursday in the championship game.
Rancocas Valley coach Diana Cermatori said she expressed some frustration with her team after it fell behind on Morgan Keller’s first-half goal.
“We discussed the things that we’ve done to prepare for this,” Cermatori said. “We went to the national tournament, we play top-20 teams consistently. Our division is really tough as well. We didn’t put in all this work and play the tough opponents to come out and play in a way that wasn’t our style of field hockey and didn’t show our intensity.”
It was clear pretty quickly that the message resonated with her team, and in particular, Fordham, who handled Kendall Roberts’ redirection in front of the right post and calmly tucked in the tying goal.
“It came off the goalie’s pads and I bobbled it, but I was able to get the stick down and just tap it in,” she said. “I think we were all coming out with a fire underneath us, and I was just in the right place at the right time.”
She showed a knack for that in the second half. Throughout the game, the Mariners’ players reminded each other to push the ball up the right side of the field, and every time they went left, you could see why. Fordham was there to disrupt the offense in the midfield. Fordham was there to create offense for the Red Devils.
“She was a fire,” Cermatori said. “As a senior captain, we expect to see that spark in her. She’s the one who’s going to bring up her teammates. She did such a nice job stepping in front of defenders, when the ball was coming, and anticipating where the pass was. She did a much better job with making possession passes, and just her speed, on the sideline was a game-changer in the second half.”
One minute, 31 seconds after Fordham’s goal, Kendall Roberts scored to put the Red Devils ahead, 2-1. One minute, 28 seconds after that, Olivia Greer scored and the Red Devils had security.
“I just felt like once I scored, everybody was like, yes, we can do this, we’re back in the game,” Fordham said.
Roberts, who added the fourth goal in the final minute, certainly agreed.
“I feel like once we scored one, the momentum was going,” she said. “One wasn’t enough. We had to get a little bit of a lead on them and then settle down and play our game. Hold them off.”
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