Thursday Updates- Boys Prep Holiday Tournaments

St. Paul’s   2 Tabor 1  (OT)

St. Paul’s opened the scoring on a Julien Menes wrister that got by the glove of the Tabor netminder with about ten minutes remaining in the first half. Max Dumas picked up an assist on the play. Tabor quickly answered back with a goal coming from Connor Tobin, assisted by Jack Cady. The second half was back and forth, remaining knotted at 1.

The game would go into overtime, with the 2 teams trading zone time until Eric Sinson ended it on a snapshot from the slot, as he found a loose puck with 59 seconds remaining in OT. Kyle Myer and Andy Beran, in net for their respective teams, both played solid.

 

Kent  4       Loomis   3  (OT)

Loomis came out fast on a goal by Cipollone from Costello and O’Connor. The 2 teams traded chances before Martin scores from Krause and Sigal to give the Pelicans the 2-0 lead. That’s how the half ended.

The second half started much as the first as Loomis struck early on a Reilly Connors wrap around just 1:07 in. Things looked bleak until 10 drove the Loomis net and snapped a low shot far side to give the Lions life with 15:09 left. With about six minutes remaining, Kent went on a 5-3 PP. After a timeout, #23 Kent sniped from the slot on a nice pass from the corner by 14. The play was frantic with teams trading chances. With just over a minute left and the goalie pulled 14 for Kent pushed pace and made a perfect backhand pass to 23 who one-timed it home for his second goal and a 3-3 tie. The last minute both teams had good chances but off to OT they went.

Just 29 seconds into OT Posma drove the Loomis net, dipped, drove and backhanded the puck home for the win.

 

Avon   5       Berkshire   0

1st half of the game was pretty even, both teams working hard and mixing it up early. First goal came 7:18 remaining when Avon sophomore standout Tyler Boucher gained the zone with possession, cut across top circles and drop pass to a streaking Tabor Heaslip. Half ended 1-0.

2nd half was a different story, Avon’s depth overwhelmed Berkshire. With 16:09 remaining Avon sophomore John Turner scored a low wrister from the point through traffic to extend the lead 2-0. Then the Winged Beavers jumped all over Berkshire scoring 3 goals in under 5 minutes. The first was from first star of the game Stefan Miklakos who cut across top of the circles and wrister goal off a quick release. Then less than a minute later John Louder took the puck end to end and passed a puck out to the slot where sophomore Patrick Neal scored. Last goal came from John Turner again, this time on a 2v1, where he made a one-touch into the net off a beautiful pass from junior Nick Cyprian.

NZ’s Take: both teams were missing key contributors; Avon was Jason Siedem and Berkshire was Briggs Gammill and Cade Alami.  Avon has a lot of young talent and depth; they’ll get better and better as the season goes on. Berkshire played hard, they have some pieces but have some guys out.

 

Gunnery   4       Trinity Pawling   3

The game was mostly controlled by Gunnery from start to finish and the score is a bit deceiving.

First half, Gunnery put together two nice passing and shooting plays to go up 2-0. Riley Brennan made a drop pass to Alex Jefferies and Jefferies buried it top corner- 13:17 left (they play 25 min halves). Then D Jimmy Rayhill went to the net and tapped in a perfect pass from Aden Hotchkiss. 2-0 after 1 half.

Second half, Ryan Trom stayed with a rebound shortly off a faceoff to give Gunnery a 3-0 lead early in the second half. TP responded when Jake Aloi tipped a Shane Murphy shot home with 20:25 left. Gunnery made it 4-1 off a faceoff as Brennan scores from Cronin. TP made things interesting with a goal by 23 from 5 who rushed end to end to set up the score. #4 fired home a goal with under two left to get within a goal but even then it never felt like Gunnery wasn’t in control.