Telegraph photo by TOM KING Bishop Guertin goalie Makenna Reekie feels the pressure from Souhegan's Ava Van Ballegooyen (26) while getting help from fellow Cardinal Julia Johnson (13) during the Sabers' 2-0 win in the driving rain Tuesday in Amherst.

AMHERST – Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the best area high school field hockey team of them all?

The Souhegan Sabers staked their claim in the pouring rain on Tuesday night with a 2-0 win over Bishop Guertin in a rare interdivisional matchup between the two.

“I hope so,” Sabers coach Kelli Braley said, her team now 7-0. “Anytime Souhegan anything plays BG it’s always a good game; this is no different. … It was a playoff kind of feel.”

Guertin, Merrimack and Souhegan have been the top programs in the area on a steady basis, the Sabers making the Division II finals last year while the Cards and Tomahawks made the semis.

“They’re always a tough team and they have a lot of talent and stick skills this year,” Guertin coach Erica Chareth said. “We didn’t match that (tenacity). We were able to work the whole game, not give up, and only give up two goals.

“It was a great matchup and we’re looking forward to the playoffs.”

The Sabers kept Cards goalie Makenna Reekie (10 saves) busy throughout. Ava Van Ballegooyen got the game’s first goal nearly four minutes into the second quarter. That was the score at the half but Souhegan got the insurance goal with 8:54 left in the third and it typified the game.

Guertin’s Brooke Yabroudy fell to the turf after losing a physical battle for the ball with Saber Juliette Rafuse, who found Catie Summers open. Summers fired a missile that Reekie had no chance on.

“She played great,” Chareth said of Reekie, adding she was also happy with the play of Lindsay Hult and Rylee Bouvier. “I’m not upset. I definitely know what we need to work on in this next week before our playoff game.”

That will be next Wednesday against the winner of a Nashua South-Merrimack play-in game on Monday. This was a bit different for the 3-2 Cards, who had recorded three straight shutouts over Nashua North and South and are now done for the regular season.

But the unbeaten Sabers are on a different level than those other locals. BG wasn’t able to keep Saber goalie Annie Raduazzo very busy at all.

“We knew comning in today it was going to be a very good game,” Chareth said. “Great competition.”

“I think we as a team elevated,” Braley said, her team finishing up with back-to-back games Thursday and Friday vs. Pelham and Milford. “I think a new standard got set tonight as far as energy and tenacity. Hopefully we can ride this throughout the playoffs.”