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Tonight: Peabody-East Longmeadow in Div. 1 girls state championship

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Peabody's Hayley Dowd has led the Tanners this season with 44 points. Her team plays East Longmeadow for the Division 1 state soccer championship.(Barry Chin / Globe Staff)

By Seth Lakso, Globe Correspondent

Peabody's girls soccer team takes on East Longmeadow in the Division 1 girls state soccer championship tonight.

The game will be 7:30 p.m. at Worcester State University.

Peabody has yet to be beaten this season at 21-0-2 and is led by junior Hayley Dowd, who is easily one of the top players in the state and has already committed to play at Boston College. Dowd led all of EMass with 44 points this season. Victoria Digiacomo has been stellar all season as well.

The Tanners knocked off a solid Oliver Ames team in overtime, 2-1, in the EMass finals to get here.

Western Massachusetts champion East Longmeadow is 18-2-1 and has outscored its opponents 12-2 thus far in the postseason.

The Spartans last played in the state finals in 2003.

Sarah Waltsak leads the Spartans with 12 goals and six assists this season. Alyssa Balboni has been solid all season, tallying eight goals and seven assists.

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