Wahconah Icers Down Mount Everett
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Seven different players found the back of the net for the Wahconah hockey team in Monday's 7-2 win over Mount Everett.
Each one faced a tall order in getting the puck past the Eagles' Jonah Swotes.
Swotes turned aside 36 shots, but Wahconah's relentless pressure proved too much to handle at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink.
"I'll tell you what, he made some phenomenal saves, too, especially the first two periods," Wahconah coach Don Disbrow said. "It could have been a bigger lead going into the third. So we were still kind of a little nervous."
Wahconah (8-1-1) took a 5-2 advantage into the third after Andrew Beaudoin scored a power-play goal with just more than a minute left in the second.
Beaudoin also registered two assists in the matinee. Vinny Orlandi matched him with a three-point game (one goal, two assists). Other goal scorers for Wahconah were Mitch Andrews, mike Moreno, Mike Bloom, Henry Churchill and Logan Rumbolt.
Jake Corcoran scored both Mount Everett goals on assists from Matt DiSilva.
Corcoran's first goal came in the first minute of the second period to make it a 2-1 game.
Moreno answered less than a minute later with assists from Beudoin and Bloom.
After Beaudoin set up Churchill to give Wahconah its first-three goal lead, Corcoran got Mount Everett (1-4-3) back within two with 11 minutes left in the second.
Wahconah then fended off three Eagles' power plays before Beaudoin got his team some breathing room going to the locker room for intermission.
Mount Everett ended up with eight power plays in the game, converting two of them.
"We've got to stay out of the box," Disbrow said. "It's killing us, absolutely killing us. It killed us this weekend. We had a 1-1 tie in a really good game against Amherst and then we lost to the Division 3 defending champs for Connecticut [Smith-Tolland]. But both games, we took too many penalties, and most of them were not smart penalties."
Wahconah plays Woodstock (Conn.) Academy on Friday. Mount Everett travels to play Taconic on Wednesday.