MacQuarrie and Coperine lead unbeaten Duxbury girls soccer past Whitman-Hanson 3-0 and into the Division 2 semifinals
The top-seeded, defending state champion Dragons are 17-0-5 and have not allowed a goal in three tournament games.
DUXBURY, Mass. High school girls soccer: MIAA Division 2 state tournament, quarterfinals
Duxbury seniors Lilah MacQuarrie and Liv Coperine stayed hot Saturday afternoon, each scoring as the top-seeded Dragons shut out No. 8 Whitman-Hanson 3-0 at Duxbury to reach the Division 2 state semifinals.
The Dragons, who won the 2025 Division 2 championship, are still unbeaten at 17-0-5. Duxbury has not given up a goal in three tournament games and has outscored Stoughton, Northampton and Whitman-Hanson 10-0, by our count from the MIAA's results.
Scores, seeds, dates and sites in this story are the MIAA's, and the goals, assists, regular-season results and college signings come from The Boston Globe's posted game accounts, team schedules and Schools Insider column.
How the goals came
MacQuarrie, a senior captain, broke through with 13:55 left in the first half. Anna Manganello slipped a through ball to Coperine, who settled it and sent a cross to MacQuarrie, and MacQuarrie scored through a crowd of defenders for a 1-0 halftime lead.
Whitman-Hanson goalkeeper Addison Hughes kept the Panthers within reach into the second half, until Coperine doubled the lead with 35:25 to play, pouncing on the rebound of a Manganello shot, and Maddie MacKinnon put the game away with 14:55 left when she got a touch on a Tierney Murphy corner kick.
Manganello had a hand in both of the first two goals, and Murphy's corner set up the third.
A strong week for the Dragons' finishers
MacQuarrie now has four goals in Duxbury's last two games, after scoring three times in Wednesday's 4-0 win over No. 17 Northampton, and Coperine scored the other goal that night. Coperine has signed to play women's soccer at Sacred Heart, and fellow senior Regan Donovan was named All-New England.
Duxbury opened the tournament Nov. 9 with a 3-0 win over No. 32 Stoughton in which Cate Sovik and Manganello were among the scorers.
The Dragons went 14-0-5 in the regular season, a run that included a 3-1 win at Hingham on Sept. 17 and a 1-1 tie with Hingham at Duxbury on Oct. 20. Hingham, the No. 2 seed, is on the other side of the bracket, so the two could meet only in the state final.
Whitman-Hanson's run ends
Whitman-Hanson (10-6-5) had played Duxbury even twice this fall, with 1-1 ties on Sept. 10 at Duxbury and Oct. 15 at Whitman-Hanson.
The Panthers reached the quarterfinals with two one-goal wins, the first a 2-1 win over No. 25 Melrose on Nov. 9 in which seniors Keira Manchester and Caleigh Mahoney scored in the second half, and on Thursday, Nov. 12, Skylar Griffin scored the double-overtime winner off a Bella Delorenzo cross to beat No. 9 Grafton 2-1.
What's next
Duxbury plays the winner of Sunday's quarterfinal between No. 4 Masconomet and No. 5 Oliver Ames, set for 2:45 p.m. at Danvers High School. MIAA tournament tickets are sold online only, through GoFan, and a semifinal ticket costs $13.60 with fees included, the MIAA says.
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