Ice hockey and field hockey do not have much in common other than the word “hockey.”

One encourages physical contact; the other discourages it. One is played on ice; the other is played on grass or artificial turf on a bigger outside field with more players.

Lauren Hawk is doing her best to master both. By day, she is a freshman center midfielder and Saucon Valley’s leading scorer (11 goals, 3 assists). By night and weekend, she is a right wing on the Lehigh Valley Phantoms’ U16 girls club team, the team’s leader in points (15 goals, 9 assists) at just 14 years old.

She is juggling all of this while maintaining good grades in her first month as a high school student.

“I love both sports and I love being with my teammates,” Hawk said. “In field hockey, I get to hang out with them in school, and in ice hockey, I get to meet girls from different schools and all over. I like making a lot of friends.”

Saucon (3-5) is off to a slow start in the Colonial League, but the Panthers did have a big win over Palmerton, in which Hawk scored both goals in a 2-1 victory.

She has been playing ice hockey since the age of 5 but did not pick up the stick with the curved end until seventh grade. While her travel for high school games is limited to the Lehigh Valley area, the Phantoms’ travel swath is much broader. She has gone as far as Reston, Virginia.

Hawk also has days with a practice for each sport, scooting from Saucon’s field over to the Steel Ice Center in Bethlehem. On Aug. 23, she played one game for Saucon and then two games for the Phantoms. Needless to say, her mother Sarah Gallagher’s car is getting a workout this fall.

She hopes to land a spot on one of the NCAA’s 44 Division I women’s ice hockey teams.

“My coach (MK Omdahl) really helps with that,” Hawk said. “Because field hockey is every day after school, it’s easier to fit in, since ice hockey is usually later in the night. … Ice hockey is more of a priority. I’m a little more committed to ice hockey because I’ve been playing it all my life. I only started field hockey in seventh grade, and I really love it.”

Hawk knows of two other local players who shuttle back and forth between the field hockey pitch and the Phantoms: Kayla Basile of Easton and Sam Bus, a Parkland School District eighth grader.

She says that although the sports have some wild differences – no checking in field hockey – she does apply certain skills learned in one and transfers them to the other.

“They benefit each other a lot,” she said. “In field hockey, my ice hockey stick-handling skills really helped me. And passing is pretty similar. My ice hockey shooting helped me learn how to shoot the field hockey ball. … My field hockey conditioning helps with ice hockey.

“When I first started field hockey, I was pretty aggressive. All my coaches said that I was being too aggressive. I’ve definitely learned to control it. Doing all of this helps with my time management. It’s preparing me for things to come in life.”

NOTES: Quakertown junior Sunday Draper has committed to play at Boston College, where she will team with former Emmaus star Melea Weber, who transferred there from North Carolina earlier this year. … East Stroudsburg South freshman goalkeeper Rilee Ike has 130 saves. …  Upper Perkiomen junior goalkeeper Ryann Sanfelice hit the 400 save mark in her career. .. Salisbury’s Gwyn DeFazio and Kendra Morgan, Karee Vandever of Freedom and Northwestern’s Hannah Gober all  hit the 100-point career milestone. … Hannah Gibson of Palisades has committed to play at Muhlenberg. … Three commitments from Northampton: Grace Roberts (Lock Haven), Lauren Reznick (DeSales), Julia Behnke (King’s).