LOWELL – To say that Lynnfield forward Mike Kennedy has been in the zone during the Division 3 state tournament would be like saying the New England Patriots are the best team in football.It almost goes without saying.On Wednesday at Cawley Stadium, it was just another in what has become a game-by-game showcase of Kennedy’s talents.The Northeastern-bound senior single-handedly took care of Lynnfield’s offense against East Bridgewater in the Division 3 Eastern Mass. finals, racking up a hat trick, while goalkeeper Andrew Leader made a crucial save with just over a minute remaining to preserve a 3-2 win and send Lynnfield to its second straight state final on Saturday (at Lowell, 1:30) against Bromfield.”Mike is a terrific player and for the people who saw him in this game, it was him scoring three goals. But we see it every game,” Lynnfield coach Brent Munroe said. “It’s unbelievable to go two years in a row. It’s so unlikely and you have to play well and have some luck.”Kennedy has been a one-man force of nature in all four of Lynnfield’s tournament wins. He now has 11 goals in those contests, giving him an even 40 for the season.And an even scarier proposition is that Kennedy easily could have had six goals on Wednesday as he failed to convert on three point-blank chances in the first half.”My teammates set me up with some really nice passes,” Kennedy said. “It was a tough game all around.”By no means was this game easy for Lynnfield as the Vikings made life very difficult in the midfield area.”(East Bridgewater) played with a ton of heart and they are very physical and athletic. They go 100 percent and I was impressed with their aggressiveness. But we made it hard on ourselves at the end,” Munroe said.The tone was set early on as the Vikings’ physicality showed up in the form of two collisions with Leader. Yet for all that pressure, East Bridgewater would end up with only one shot on goal in the first half.Kennedy then made his presence known at the 13-minute mark, when he had two opportunities against Nick Clark from in close, but whistled both shots wide of the left post.The Vikings responded with more pressure and it nearly paid off as Josh Dacosta found the net off a scramble, but the goal was called back because of an offside penalty.Kennedy belted a shot off the crossbar moments later and the Vikings had a second goal called back on an offside play with 16:00 left.Following the second nullified goal, Munroe called time-out to settle his troops.Evidently, the conversation went well as the Pioneers took the lead with 7:28 left in the half. A.J. Johnson chipped a pass to the right wing for Kennedy, who corralled it and drilled a shot along the FieldTurf and inside the left post for a halftime lead.”It could have been 1-0 or 4-2 at the half, but we were happy,” Kennedy said.The physical play continued at the start of the second half, but it wasn’t enough to put the brakes on Lynnfield’s attack.Kennedy made it 2-0, Pioneers, at the 6:19 mark when he finished off a nifty pass from Craig Martin with a rocket past Clark and inside the right post.The Vikings had a chance to make things interesting midway through the half when Dacosta was fouled just inside the penalty area, resulting in a free kick. But even that went wrong as Greg Giguere fired the shot well over the net.Tempers finally boiled over on the Lynnfield sideline as both Kennedy and Munroe was tagged for yellow cards in a four-minute period. But even that couldn’t deter things for the Pioneers.Tino Acierno picked off a pass at midfield and lofted a pass that hit Kennedy in stride for a shot past Clark with 14:30 left that made it 3-0.”Mike really is a top-of-the-line player, but we’re getting the ball to him in spots where he’s going to put it in the net,” Munroe said.If anyone thought the Pioneers would cruise home, they were sorely mistaken as Dacosta cut the gap to 3-1 off a goalmouth scramble with 10:36 left.Leader then came up with the save of the day, robbing