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CORNWALL — Thirteen shots on goal. Two of them counted. That was enough.

Cornwall beat Minisink Valley 2-0 at home Wednesday, a regular-season result that carried the Dragons into Section 9 play, and for most of the afternoon they were the only team asking questions.

Kalli Enos scored one. Cacia Quinonez scored the other. Victoria Weber and Kathryn Breheny were credited with the assists.

The shot count says where this game was played. Thirteen on frame is a long afternoon for any goalkeeper, and Minisink Valley spent most of it defending its own end.

What the number does not say is how little Cornwall gave up going the other way. With a place in sectionals riding on the result, the Dragons never blinked: no lapse, no scramble, nothing that let the Warriors back into a match that was getting away from them.

Now it gets harder, and it gets away from home. The third-seeded Dragons travel to No. 2 Washingtonville on Wednesday, Oct. 28, for a 4 p.m. semifinal, with a place in the Section 9 final waiting for whoever comes out of it.

Two more wins and the Dragons are section champions. The first one is a week out, on somebody else’s field, against a team seeded above them.

CORNWALL — Two goals decided this one. Almost nothing else did.

Lourdes beat Cornwall 2-0 on Saturday afternoon under a clear October sky, a scoreline that reads a good deal more comfortable than the match that produced it. The two sides went at each other end to end from the opening whistle, and what finally separated them was which team’s chances went in.

Emmanuel Macenat scored one. Grady Collins scored the other. Aaron Mars supplied the assist.

Nearly everything else, the goalkeepers took care of. Cornwall’s Lucas Santiago made five saves. Lourdes’ Chase Piotrowski made five of his own.

That symmetry is the whole afternoon in one line. Both teams got there. Both goalkeepers said no, over and over. One team finished twice, and that was the margin.

It was the sort of day that makes the fall worth turning out for — full sun, color coming into the trees past the fence line, and two teams treating a Saturday in October like it counted for considerably more than that.

Neither side gets much time to sit with it. Cornwall is back on its own field Monday, hosting Rye at 4 p.m. Lourdes is home Tuesday for Red Hook at 4:15, then travels to Mount Academy on Thursday. Cornwall follows with Goshen at home on Oct. 20 and a trip to Middletown on Oct. 22.

After that comes the part everyone was already thinking about on the walk back to the parking lot. Sectionals are close. On the evidence of Saturday, neither of these teams is going to be anybody’s comfortable draw.

BEACON — Delano Rigby Jr. threw ten passes Thursday night. He completed ten passes.

The Beacon quarterback did not miss once in a 47-6 win over Saugerties, finishing 10-for-10 for 172 yards and three touchdowns as the Bulldogs moved to 6-0.

Elijah Epps handled the rest of it. He carried 11 times for 157 yards and two scores — better than 14 yards every time he touched it — and added 38 more through the air.

Beacon settled the thing early and then kept going. The Bulldogs put up eight points in the first quarter, 16 in the second and 23 in the third, and did not need the fourth. Saugerties’ only points came in the second.

Jamir Spence caught three balls for 78 yards and one of Rigby’s touchdowns.

The night fit the season. Epps is up to 13 touchdowns this fall, 12 of them on the ground, and is averaging better than 100 rushing yards a game. Rigby has nine touchdown passes and is completing better than three-quarters of what he throws.

What stands out about this Beacon team is how many different ways it has won. The Bulldogs ground out a 12-6 decision against Marlboro Central. Two weeks later they traded blows with New Paltz and came home with a 63-34 win. Thursday was neither — just a team that was better everywhere, for three quarters, against an opponent that could not keep up.

Beacon opened the season with wins at Ketcham and at O’Neill and has not lost since. Saugerties falls to 2-3.

The schedule gets heavier from here. Beacon travels to Port Jervis on Thursday, Oct. 16, for a 6 p.m. kickoff, hosts Poughkeepsie on Oct. 23 and closes the regular season at Liberty on Oct. 30.