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12/21/08

Sun. Dec. 21 Tournament Results

Flood-Marr Tournament -- Nobles Wins First Title Since '92 

Sunday Playoffs @ Noble & Greenough:

8:00 am -- 7th Place: Deerfield 5, Westminster 3 -- Andrew Ammon (2g,1a) led the attack.

10:00 am -- 5th Place: Hotchkiss 3, Kimball Union 0 -- Petr Placek, Mike Borge, and George Russell were the scorers.

12:00 pm -- 3rd Place: Salisbury 5, Milton 1-- Salisbury breaks open a 1-1 game with four third-period goals. Three assists for Kyle Hughes. Andy Iles in net for Salisbury; Michael Baldino for Milton.

2:00 pm -- Championship: Nobles 5, Andover 3 -- Nobles, on an early third period goal by junior defenseman Gus Young, took a 4-3 lead en route to a 5-3 win over Phillips Andover in the finale of the 2008 Flood-Marr Tournament. The win gave Nobles its first Flood-Marr title since 1992, and it's second all-time.

Jared Lackey, with a pair of goals, came up big for Nobles; Chris Kreider had a pair for Andover.

This was a fun game to watch. Great tempo, some high end players to keep the level of play high, and several shifts of momentum. Nobles came out hard in the first period, and got on the board just 1:16 in, when Ian Graves took a feed out of the corner; his shot from the point was rebounded home by Billy Arnold. Nobles went up 2-0 at the 10:49 mark when Lackey converted a rebound. Then, less than three minutes after that, Andover took charge, with Kreider taking a short goal-mouth pass from linemate Brooks Dyroff and slipping it past goaltender Gene Lane to cut the Nobles' lead to one. Kreider struck again 57 seconds later on a wraparound, tying the game at 2-2 -- and that's where the period ended. In the second, Nobles struck for another early goal, taking a 3-2 lead when Lackey picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone and took off, picking the top corner, and beating Andover goaltender Glenn Stowell cleanly. Andover got it right back 54 seconds later when Dyroff, off a face-off in the Nobles' end, spied a clear path to the net and, with no defender picking him up, bored in on Lane and tied the game back up, at 3-3. About a minute later, on a drive to the net, Arnold was taken down by big Andover defenseman Luke Duprey. Arnold was awarded a penalty shot, but Stowell stopped him with a glove save. Andover's Garnet Hathaway had a chance to put his team up 4-3 late, but rang one off the crossbar.

In third, as in the two periods preceding it, Nobles drew first blood when a Gus Young shot from the left point broke off Stowell's pad and into the net at the 2:26 mark. This time, though, Andover would be unable to answer. Instead, Nobles struck again, emphatically, when Nick Raffone, flying down the left side, snapped one top shelf to make it 5-3 at the 4:18 mark. This time Nobles wasn't going to give up their lead, and they didn't.

"In the third period," said Nobles head coach Brian Day, "we competed a lot harder than in the first two periods. The kids worked hard and never lost their composure. We have three real good lines and our third line came up with both goals in the third period. It was a total team win. Andover is a hell of a hcokey team. they work hard. It was an accomplishment for us to beat them."

-- Records: Nobles (4-0); Andover (3-1); Salisbury (3-1); Hotchkiss (2-2); Milton (1-2-1); Kimball Union (1-3); Deerfield (1-3); Westminster (0-3-1).

-- Tournament MVP: Nobles sophomore forward Billy Arnold.

All Tournament Team (chosen by the coaches):
Westminster -- Charles Corsi, Sr. G
Deerfield -- Grant Dennis, Sr. G
Kimball Union -- Michael Basist, Sr. D
Hotchkiss -- Chris Steele, Sr. D
Milton -- Ryan Edwards, Sr. F; Thomas Tysowsky, Sr G.
Salisbury -- Danny Biega, Sr. D; Kyle Hughes, Jr. F
Andover -- Glenn Stowell, Sr. G; Garnet Hathaway, Jr. F; Chris Kreider, Jr. F.
Nobles -- Gus Young, Jr. D; Mark Hourihan, Jr. F; Nick Raffone, Jr. F.
            

Lawrenceville Tournament -- Taft Edges Choate for Championship

Sunday Playoffs:

8:00 am -- 7th Place: NMH 4, Nichols 1-- Branden Komm kicks out 25 of 26 shots. 

10:00 am -- 5th Place: Canterbury 4, UCC 2 -- Kevin Goumas notches two goals; Brian Taptick stops 26 of 28 shots.

12:00 pm -- 3rd Place: Belmont Hill 4, Lawrenceville 0 -- Four different goal scorers, plus a 30-save shutout from Mike Condon.

2:30 pm -- Championship: Taft 5, Choate 4 -- Great game. 3-3 after two periods. Choate goes up 4-3 on a Billy Rivellini goals 27 seconds into third. Then Robbie Bourdon ties it up for Taft, 4-4, at the 4:58 mark. Shortly after Bourdon, awarded a penalty shot, is stopped by Nick Bondurant. No matter, a minute or so later Bourdon knocked home a rebound to make it 5-4. Bourdon, who also scored in the second period, had a hat trick. E-L Hansen (1g,2a) and Jesse Root (3a) also had three points apiece for the Rhinos. Taft outshot Choate, 32-29. 


St. Sebastian’s Tournament -- Winchendon Holds On; Take Title

Sunday Playoffs:

9:00 am -- 7th Place: South Kent 6, Rivers 2

11:00 am -- 5th Place: Thayer 3, Albany Academy 0

1:00 pm -- 3rd Place: Boston Advantage AAA 7, Proctor 4

3:00 pm -- 1st Place: Winchendon 5, St. Sebastian's 4 -- St. Seb's, down 4-1 in the second, came back  to make a game of it, but Winchendon held on for the win. Hugo Turcotte (1g,2a), Phil Arnone (1g,1a) and Adam Hercules (1g,1a) led the Winchendon attack. Brendan Corcoran, Joe McNamara, Dom Jancaterino, and Casey Cronin (on a penalty shot) scored the Arrows' goals. Shots were 33-33. Don McGuirl (St. Seb's) and Ben Meisner (Winchendon) manned the nets. Winchendon, up a goal, had to kill off a major over the last five minutes of the game. "That was the most important part of the game," said Winchendon head coach Patrick Leahy, adding, "This was a good overall team effort. We kept it loose, we had fun, and we played as a team."  

--  The final day at both the Governor’s Tournament and the Brooks-Pingree Tournament was canceled because of the weather.

Sat. Dec. 20 Tournament Results