Wakefield discovers the winning touch

Winchester's Sara Hennessey (right) avoids a slide tackle by Reading's Deshanthi Parera and retains the ball in a 0-0 draw. (Lisa poole/For the globe)

Entering yesterday's game against Stoneham, the Wakefield boys' soccer team had one thing on its mind: winning.

That's something the Warriors had not done yet this season, and something they hadn't done against Stoneham in 12 years.

But all that changed as Wakefield shut out the visiting Spartans, 3-0, avenging a 3-1 loss earlier this season.

"We certainly had that revenge angle going on," coach Sam Hochberg said. "The kids knew we had the ability to beat them, we just had to do the right things."

Sophomore Nakia Brown scored the first goal with a little more than 11 minutes remaining in the first half. Brown received the ball from junior Ryan DiBenedetto with his back to the goal, turned, and fired a shot into the low right corner of the net.

The Warriors took that 1-0 lead into the break and came back out maintaining their offensive pressure.

"That was the first time all season we had the lead at halftime," Hochberg said. "We reminded them that they had to play 80 minutes of soccer and that we weren't going to go into a shell and just defend."

Wakefield made it 2-0 on an unassisted goal by Andrew Kuks a little more than 10 minutes into the half. The Warriors tacked on another goal with a little more than 11 minutes remaining in the game on a strike by Mike Boodry.

Atlantic Coast: Two goals from Taylor Hirst helped Nauset beat Marshfield, 3-1.

Dual County: Derek Cachadurian's two goals helped Weston beat Acton-Boxboro, 3-1 . . . Derek Diaz and Ettore DeMari each had a goal and an assist in Tyngsboro's 3-1 win over Boston Latin.

South Shore: Scott Fisher scored both Mashpee goals in a 2-0 win over Abington.

Tri-Valley: Tom Swaffield scored all three of Dover-Sherborn's goals in a 3-1 win over Ashland.

Girls' soccer
Atlantic Coast: Brinley O'Neil and Amanda Cormier-Shean each scored in Plymouth South's 2-1 win over Dennis-Yarmouth . . . Tiffany Aguiar scored two goals and assisted on another as Plymouth North rolled past Sandwich, 4-1.

Bay State: Cory Ryan scored twice and had an assist in Norwood's 4-2 win over Natick.

Middlesex: Reading and Winchester tied, 0-0, in a battle of the league's top teams. Unbeaten Winchester, which had edged Reading, 1-0, last month, picked up its first tie of the season. Reading moved to 7-1-2 . . . Rebecca Russo's two goals led Belmont past Melrose, 4-1.

Field hockey
Middlesex: Watertown edged Reading, 3-2, as Erika Kelly notched two goals and Sarah MacDougal added the other.