On a day when regional titles in field hockey and soccer were handed out, some Eastern Maine teams got more than a fancy plaque.

Skowhegan field hockey, Madawaska girls soccer and Van Buren boys soccer all recorded wins Saturday over teams that had beaten them in the regular season or in a previous Eastern Maine final.

Skowhegan, Madawaska and Van Buren – along with the rest of the Eastern Maine winners – will face their Western Maine counterparts for state titles on Nov. 6.

The sites for the state championship soccer games were announced Monday. The Class A games will be held at Lewiston High School and the “B” games are set for Hall-Dale High in Farmingdale. The Class C games will be played at Bangor High’s field and the D games will be held at Schenck High School in East Millinocket.

All boys games will start at 10 a.m. and the girls games will be held at 1 p.m.

The Classes A, B and C field hockey championships will all take place at Gorham High School, starting with the Class B game at 10 a.m.

The Madawaska girls suffered their only loss of the season to Calais, which had the No. 6 seed going into the postseason. This time, Owls coach Ed Marshall said, his squad knew what to expect.

“They’re a program that’s really improving and [coach] Lori Frost has done well with them,” said Marshall, who has guided the Owls to four straight EM titles. “We knew they’d be one of the teams we’d have to deal with, we knew about [Lanna] Martin and [Katie] Churchill, that we had to watch them.”

Marshall said his strategy for Saturday’s game revolved around another Calais player that had impressed him – goalkeeper Jennifer Russell. Russell finished with a solid 22 saves on 30 shots in Madawaska’s 1-0 win Saturday.

“She was taking shots all over the place,” he said. “We wanted to make sure we kept control of the ball, but we got into some times that we didn’t do that and we paid. They had two or three rushes in the last few minutes, especially with Rachel out.”

That’s Rachel Fournier, the Owls’ standout sweeper, who knocked heads with another player and had to come out of the game. Marshall said Fournier is questionable for the state game.

The Van Buren boys lost to Machias in last year’s Eastern Maine Class D final. The Crusaders were eager to face the Bulldogs in the title game again this season and got a 4-2 victory after a 2-1 loss last season.

Machias goalie Kevin Loughlin helped the Bulldogs win the title last year despite a relentless Van Buren offense led by Channel Wright, Mike Sirois and Eric Ayotte. This time around, Ayotte and Wright both scored goals.

“They were pumped for this,” Van Buren coach Steve LaPierre said. “We wanted to get another shot at them.”

And Skowhegan needed two overtimes and four sets of penalty corners to finally topple No. 1 Gardiner, which went 14-0 in the regular season. The Tigers had beaten the Indians 1-0 earlier this fall.

Relyea stellar for Searsport

One of the most eye-popping stats of the soccer season comes from the Searsport boys team, a 3-2 winner over Penquis of Milo in the Eastern Maine Class C title game. With a strong offensive attack led by Tucker Mercier, Joey Light and brothers Pasco and Rusty Grove, the Vikings have outscored their opponents 93-13 this year.

Searsport also has nine shutouts this season – most of them courtesy of goalie Ben Relyea, who earned the win Saturday.

Relyea isn’t afraid to come out as far as midfield in order to stop the opposition. He had several key saves against the strong Penquis front line of Eric Ballash and Jeremy Allen.

“That’s how Ben plays,” Searsport coach Kyle Webb said Saturday. “He’s very athletic, very aggressive and he plays with no fear at all. He’s been doing that all year and we’re really fortunate that we have someone as athletic as he is. He really saves the day for us time and time again and he did today.”

While Relyea, backup goalie Joe Ogden and defenders Aaron Ward, Arron Tripp and Scott Wancus have been strong, Webb attributes some of the Vikings’ dominance to a weaker schedule than last year, when the scoring margin was about 40-20.

“We significantly improved and unfortunately, our opponents in the regular season weren’t as strong as they were last year,” he said. “But we did come to play and we did put a lot of teams away. I think 90 percent of our games this year were decided by halftime.”