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FREEPORT — In a matter of seconds, the Yarmouth field hockey team went from defense to offense. And in a few seconds more, the Clippers had their biggest win since last year’s playoffs.

Maya Nasveschuk scored two goals Monday night, including the winner following an Emma Shannon save with 4:54 to go in overtime, and Yarmouth defeated Freeport 2-1 in a matchup of unbeatens atop Class B South.

“I think our team really came together and brought it today,” Nasveschuk said. “It was huge. It almost felt like a playoff game.”

The last two years it has been: Freeport and Yarmouth have played in the last two B South finals, with the Falcons (8-1) winning in 2023 and the Clippers (10-0) besting them last fall.

“It was a super, super competitive game. They’re great opponents, (with a) great goalie, great players all throughout the field,” said Shannon, Yarmouth’s senior goalie. “And I think they really do bring out the best in us. It gave us a really good chance to showcase all the ways that we’ve grown.”

Dramatic finish

• With nearly three minutes gone in overtime, Freeport led a rush toward the Yarmouth goal that led to a shot on net. Shannon came up out of net and kicked the ball out of harm’s way, and right to Nasveschuk.

“There was a lot more of Freeport in the circle than my teammates, so I figured my chances were not very good if I just sat back and let the ball come to me,” Shannon said.

• Nasveschuk led the rush the other way, then ran a give-and-go with teammate Erica O’Connor to set her up with a clean path toward the goal. She smacked a shot that took an odd hop and glanced off goalie Maddie Kryzek’s pads and in for the winner.

“We talk about it a lot. It doesn’t need to be pretty, it just needs to go in,” Yarmouth coach Bri Page said.

Key moments

• Yarmouth started fast and was on the board just over a minute and a half into the game. O’Connor brought the ball up the right side, drew the defense and goalie to her, then found Nasveschuk open by the left post.

• After a sluggish start, Freeport began to create pressure in the Yarmouth zone toward the end of the first half. That continued in the second, as Callie Bourgoin tipped in a Lizalyn Boudreau shot off of the Falcons’ sixth corner of the game with 2:31 to go in the third quarter.

• Yarmouth had to sweat out the end of regulation, with Freeport awarded back-to-back corners in the final seconds. The Clippers escaped unscathed and rejuvenated heading into extra time.

“I think it was very motivating,” Page said.

Notable quotes

• “(We had to) think about overtime while you’re trying not to die during the corners with no time left.” — Bri Page.

• “A lot of my saves are muscle memory from thousands and thousands and thousands of repetitions, but at the same time … I might have seen her out of the corner of my eye.” — Emma Shannon, on kicking her save to Nasveschuk.

• “Their intensity was beating us. They were beating us to the ball, they wanted that game more. I think hopefully when stakes are a little bit higher, things will be a little bit different.” — Freeport coach Marcia Wood, on the early deficit.

• “After that we felt a little more like we could play. We were playing with more intensity and more hustle to the ball, because I felt like we believed a little bit more.” — Wood on Freeport’s rally.