Lucas Crook rifled home the game-winning goal with 10:58 remaining in overtime, lifting Somerset Berkley to a 3-2 field hockey victory over visiting Canton on Wednesday and setting off a firestorm of emotions between both coaches.

SOMERSET BERKLEY – Lucas Crook rifled home the game-winning goal with 10:58 remaining in overtime, lifting Somerset Berkley to a 3-2 field hockey victory over visiting Canton on Wednesday and setting off a firestorm of emotions between both coaches.

With the victory, top-seeded Somerset Berkley advances to Saturday's Division 1 South Sectional finals against King Philip at Taunton High School. The time is to be determined.

"I think we were the best team today," said a very upset Canton coach Chrissy O'Connor after the game. "I think they shouldn't allow boys to play field hockey. It was very physical out there and how do you play against that? The officials didn't keep control of that.

"Clearly there is a difference (between boys and girls) and until the MIAA does something about it, this will continue to happen."

"It was a physical game," said an emotional SB coach Jen Crook, the mother of Lucas. "We're not used to playing physical like that.

"We have two boys on the team who have been playing since the seventh grade. I didn't ask them to play. They just love playing the sport. What am I supposed to do?"

Under MIAA rules, schools with boys on the field hockey team are forced to move up a division when it comes to tournament play. Somerset Berkley is already in Division 1, so there is no consequence for the Raiders.

Somerset Berkley's Kara Desjarlais opened the game with a goal 2:07 into the contest, but the Bulldogs quickly responded with 23:55 left in the half on the first of two Kaitlyn Goyetch goals to make it 1-1.

The hosts took a 2-1 lead into the break when Megan Salsinha scored after a mad scramble in front of the net with 3:36 left. Salsinha's goal was assisted by Camryn Crook.

Goyetch knotted the game at 2-2 with 20:53 to play and Canton goalie Riley Brown kept the game tied by making consecutive acrobatic saves with a little more than four minutes to play.

"I thought our defense played an outstanding game," O'Connor said.

With 10:58 left in the 15-minute, sudden-death overtime, Crook, the Raiders' leading scorer this season, blasted a shot past Brown, sending the Raiders into the South finals.

"It's unfortunate a game like this has to be ruined by adults at the end," said Coach Crook. "I thought they were very disrespectful after the game, not shaking the boys' hands."

O'Connor disputed that fact, saying her team shook hands after the game.

"I'd love to have a conversation with her about that," O'Connor said.

While the majority of the postgame talk revolved around the two Somerset Berkley boys (Alex Millar being the other), Jen Crook didn't want the work of her team to go unnoticed.

"It's not like the boys are doing all the work," she said, "and I think this takes away from what the girls are doing."