> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Pinkerton takes advantage of overtime in win over Merrimack - URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/pinkerton-takes-advantage-of-overtime-in-win-over-merrimack/ - Published: 2011-09-15T20:30:09.000Z - Updated: 2011-09-15T20:30:09.000Z - Description: MERRIMACK – When Pinkerton Academy’s Jordyn Hamilton lobbed a pass into the air during Monday’s field hockey game, a few Merrimack fans wondered why play wasn’t stopped. - Author: Joe Marchilena - Tags: Division II, Fall Sports, Division I, field hockey, Merrimack, Pinkerton, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bc/58/bc5866d0-9fd9-4113-b959-670d6f16471d/content/images/www-nh-highschoolsports-com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/merrfh0912-merrpollard-4.jpg "MerrFH0912 MerrPollard-4") MERRIMACK – When Pinkerton Academy’s Jordyn Hamilton lobbed a pass into the air during Monday’s field hockey game, a few Merrimack fans wondered why play wasn’t stopped. In field hockey, play can be whistled to a stop if a pass is determined to be too dangerous. That’s what usually happens if a ball rises above waist level. So then why wasn’t Hamilton’s pass ruled dangerous? Because there was no one near it, thanks to the 7-on-7 seven overtime rules in New Hampshire high school field hockey. When Hamilton lobbed the ball in the direction of the Merrimack goal, the middle of the field was wide open. The pass made it beyond both Tomahawks defenders and Pinkerton’s Linnea Testa moved in on Merrimack goalie Emily Devaney. Devaney came out to play the ball, but when she tried to kick it away, Testa sent it to the goalie’s right, just out of reach and into the goal. That tally gave Pinkerton a 2-1 overtime win against Merrimack, avenging the Astros’ only Division I regular season loss a year ago. “I wanted to make sure it was a good hit, because if it was at someone, they would have called it right back,” Hamilton said of the play. “(The defense) had a nice ball up to me in the middle and I knew that there was a ton of open space, so I gave a lob and luckily it went past both their defenders. Our girl took it in.” The goal at 6:14 of overtime brought to an end a game that seemed destined to come down to the final play. Both teams traded chances in the first half with neither capitalizing. Merrimack broke through first, getting a goal from Jess Lorrento less than three minutes into the second half. But Pinkerton was able to answer back eight minutes later, on a goal by Julie Saltamartini, to tie the game 1-1. “It was a really good game, it’s just too bad it had to end in the 7-on-7,” Merrimack coach Ann MacLean said. “I could tell she (Pinkerton coach Jen Resmini) had something up her sleeve when she called a timeout (before the first goal) with the hit going in. Everybody was up. That’s how you have to play when you’re looking at the time and the score.” ### Super matchup The game provided fans with a great one-on-one battle between Hamilton and Merrimack’s Emily Pollard. The two found themselves going against each other on several occasions, and every time, it was something to watch. “It was fun to watch,” MacLean said. “I think Emily has a lot more finesse. We focused on Jordyn.” Hamilton, who played for the U17 national field hockey team this summer, will attend Boston College next year to play field hockey, while Pollard will head to the University of Delaware to play lacrosse. ### Looking for a good start Resmini is happy with the way Pinkerton has opened the season – the Astros are 6-0 after beating Merrimack and Bishop Guertin this week – but there is one thing she’d like to see her team be better at. “We’ve been trying to get off to better starts and we haven’t quite done that yet, so we’ve had some good finishes,” she said. “That’s the good part, we know how to finish. We have to get off to better starts. I thought the second half was much better and that’s been our style right now. We need to get the whole 60 minutes.” When Merrimack took the lead early in the second half, Resmini knew that the Astros would find a way to regroup and tie the game. She just didn’t know when. “I thought they would come back as strong as they did and keep the pressure in the zone,” Resmini said. “We’ve got some good, hard-working girls, who want to put it in the back of the net. I knew they would respond. It doesn’t always take a goal to do it, but they did respond.” It took a lot of work for the Astros to come back, but they were able to do it, despite knowing they were going to need more than one goal to get the win. “It was really stressful,” Hamilton said. “Both teams had moments where we both had a lot of control. It was just back and forth. There’s definitely so much more pressure because we’re down and we need to get a goal, and another one to even win. But our team is good with pressure and we’ve had a lot of close games this season.” ### Still going strong When the Tomahawks beat the Astros a year ago, it was something that the seniors had been hoping to pull off for most of their high school careers. Despite losing some key players to graduation, Merrimack showed in both Monday’s loss and Wednesday’s 1-0 win over Salem that it’s not going away any time soon. “They’ve definitely gained a lot more speed, especially in the middle of the field,” said Hamilton, who has played on the varsity at Pinkerton since her freshman year. “They’ve gained a lot more skill.” MacLean likes what she sees down the road for the Tomahawks. “We have a feeder program at the middle school,” she said. “We’ve got a really athletic junior varsity team. They’re really starting to believe in themselves. Something is working.” The two games this week also gave her and the team an idea of where they stand in Division I. “I just think it’s a really good time of the season to let the girls know what they’re capable of doing,” MacLean said. “I know the girls are upset because they put a hundred percent into it, but it was good. It’s not like this is single-elimination at the end and we’re done. We’ll take a look at the film and see what we need to do.”