SAUGUS – The St. Mary’s girls hockey team is starting to resemble the Celtics, or Yankees ? or Montreal Canadiens.The Spartans win so often that people actually prefer that they lose now and then.That’s the message that coach Frank Pagliuca gave to his players as they prepared for last month’s state championship game.”I told them,” he recounted at Sunday night’s banquet at the Kowloon, “that everyone in the state, except for themselves and their parents and fans, wanted the other team to win.”Pagliuca told the story as an illustration of how much scrutiny this team came under this past winter in its quest to repeat as state champion – a quest that it fulfilled on March 7 at the Boston Garden with a 1-0 win over Woburn.Along the way, the Spartans won 51 straight games, another mark that even Pagliuca found hard to comprehend.”The girls told me at the beginning of the year that their goal was to win the state championship again ? and that they didn’t care how we did it ? as long as we were in the position to play in that title game,” he said.That meant that the team adopted a uniquely unselfish attitude.”We didn’t have anyone who wished they’d have more goals, or more saves,” he said. “They were singularly focused on their goal. And that’s one of the things I’m proudest of.”The dinner, in which there were no individual awards handed out, was a vivid illustration of how close the players on this year’s team were. Pagliuca asked the five juniors on the team to prepare remarks about the three graduating seniors (Alex Smith, Kelsey Magrane and Michelle Golden), and those speeches were very emotional. So were the seniors’, when they got their chance to talk about the season and (again) when they introduced next year’s captains (Michelle Macchione, Erin McAndrews, Courtney White and Courtney Winters).McAndrews and White were recognized for reaching, and eclipsing, the 100-point mark during the season.The Spartans had a tough task at the beginning of the year, since last year’s team went 25-0 and won the state title with the help of senior snipers Abby Gauthier and Christen Hart – a lot of points to make up this winter.”We won some games by a lot, and some just by finding a way,” Pagliuca said. “Not every game was a blowout.”There was a lot of pressure on these girls,” he said. But he added that not only did they handle it, they thrived on it.