Mamaroneck has a statement win, getting an overtime goal from Sam Christiansen to make the ride home from Ithaca almost tolerable. Brett Poniros and Alex Harwood each made nine saves. The Tigers put 44 shots on goal and Scott Hagen tied matters with 21 seconds to play. … Jake Jaeger scored twice for Suffern against West Genesee and was named MVP of the Massena Christmas Classic. … Colin Reilly scored twice for Pelham and Will MacInnis was back in the lineup after getting stranded by the blizzard in Buffalo. … Luke Martin stopped 19 of 20 shots for Kennedy/Putnam Valley. … Nick Rosenfield had the lone Rye goal.
The scoreboard
Kennedy/Putnam Valley 2, Pawling 1
Mamaroneck 3, Ithaca 2 OT
Suffern 3, West Genesee 1
Pelham 3, West Seneca West 3 OT
McQuaid Jesuit 2, Rye 1
Click here for the LoHud.com hockey roundup. Click here to read about Mamaroneck’s win in the Ithaca Journal.
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“Mamaroneck held a 52-13 advantage in shots on goal” < ———Ouch
They were being out-shot their past couple games and now getting a heck of a lot of shots off on a good Ithaca team. I really need to get to a game this year, hard to figure this team out (In a good way)
On another note:Congrats Section 1 on a good showing these last couple days, Suffern burned some butts upstate.
Link to Mamo-Ithaca game in Ithaca Journal. They had mamo outshooting Little Red 52-13 (maybe the unofficial count). Also some grumbling from the Hometown paper about the officiating. They bemoaned the fact that Ithaca had two minors in regulation and then rec’d 3 penalties in 37 seconds (in OT I think). Oh well. It’s only in recent years that downstate teams haven’t gotten the short end of the stick upstate.
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sec 1 or “downstate Hockey” has come a long way in the last 30 years since State tourney play started. I can remember the first year of the state tourney when Rye had a great tem and was basically routing all the teams down here went on the beat Suffern (then in section 9) 4-0 and went upstate for the Final against Massena and lost 7-0!
Same for Nyack (sec 9 then also) in division 2 who lost 9-0. Suffern and Rye traded places representing sec 1 through the 80’s and both had great teams but little success upstate (to keep games close was a challenge) until Suffern finally broke through in 1992 with a D1 state title.
Now there is little difference between the good teams downstate and the good teams upstate, although there seems to be more of them (cheaper ice time, colder weather and culture) the farther north you go.