Framingham and Westwood duel each year for the right to participate in the state tournament championship game, but Freda doesn’t want her team getting ahead of itself.

‘‘We’re looking at our first game [a 16-3 victory over Newton North],’’ she said. ‘‘We’ve got a long road until we get to that point.’’

A few other schools will also figure to be in the mix. Longmeadow has played in the state championship game every year for the past seven seasons, winning in 2004. Wellesley, who has lost in the Division I South tournament to Westwood the past two years, returns All-Scholastic Blake Dietrick. As a sophomore last season Dietrick scored 91 goals and tallied 141 points.

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Norwell's Kara O'Connell returns.

In Division 2, Norwell has been the top dog. The Clippers have played in four of the previous five state championship games, winning three times. Returning is the scoring duo of Kate MacDonald (93 goals, 30 assists), and All-Scholastic Kara O’Connell (63 goals, 35 assists).

‘‘They’ve held their whole team together,’’ said Duxbury coach Sue Paull. ‘‘They’ve got a good youth program. They are always competitive.’’

Paull and the Green Dragons are very familiar with Norwell. The two teams have met in the either the semi-finals or the finals of the Division 2 South playoffs in each of the past three years, Norwell winning twice.

‘‘Last year we beat Norwell in the regular season 18-13 but lost in the semifinals 18-16,’’ Paull said. ‘‘We go back and forth with Norwell. That game is kind of the deciding factor for who will play in the state championship.’’

Whoever wins that matchup traditionally has to go through Winchester to claim the state title. From 2005 through 2008 Winchester represented the North in the state championship game.

The Sachems return leading scorer Lauren Sullivan, who will head to Notre Dame after her high-school career, but Ontso will look for other options to step up.

“You can get by in this game with one or two threats,” she said. ‘‘We’re looking to have five or six scoring threats on the field at a time.”

North Andover should be competitive again as they attempt to defend their North title. Another team that could make some noise is Sandwich, who moves from Division 1 — where the Blue Knights lost to Westwood in the quarterfinals of the Division 1 South tournament — to Division 2 this season.