The Leavitt field hockey team beat Camden Hills to the punch this week, handing Belfast its first loss in more than three years. Before the season, if any team had the best chance to end Belfast’s 54-game winning streak it would have been the Windjammers, who host Belfast on Friday in Rockport.

Camden Hills Coach Janet Holmes-Jackson has built her program into a regional contender and, after all, she is her father’s daughter – her father, Allen Holmes, is in his 35th season at the helm of the Belfast field hockey program.

But Tuesday the Hornets ended Belfast’s run with a 1-0 win over the Lions. The Hornets got a goal from Courtney Erskine to hand Belfast its first loss since Oct. 25, 2003, when the Lions lost 2-1 to Waterville in the Eastern B semifinals. Leavitt’s win could bring a shift of power to the KVAC’s Class B region.

“This puts a new focus on us by other teams,” Leavitt Coach Wanda Ward-MacLean said. “When you knock off the defending state champions, people start gunning for you. We have to concentrate and take things a goal at a time.”

Of quotes and notes ... Former Falmouth field hockey standout Eileen Brandes is following her mom’s legacy at the University of Michigan. Her mother, Mary, played field hockey for the Wolverines from 1976-1979 and is a member of the Michigan Hall of Honor. (Of note - the Wolverines field hockey team DOES NOT play Appalachian State this season.)

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