BOYS DIVISION 1 AND DIVISION 2 HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY SECTION X CHAMPIONSHIPS

GAME ONE THE DIVISION 2 CHAMIONSHIP GAME BETWEEN OFA AND SLC.  SLC GETS ON THE BOARD EARLY IN SECOND PERIOD AFTER A SCORELESS FIRST, A POWER PLAY GOAL SCORED BY DYLAN PATTERSON ASSIST GOING TO CHARLIE DULLEA TO MAKE IT 1 ZIP.  DEVILS ANSWER QUICKLY ERIC BARR FROM DREW HILBORNE AND ERIC WHITCOMBE SO 1-1 BUT LATE IN SECOND WITH JUST 43 SECONDS TO GO ERIC WHITCOMBE SCORES FROM TREY LAWRENCE TO PUT THE DEVILS UP 2-1 HEADING INTO THE THIRD.  SLC COMES OUT FIRING SCORES EARLY IN THE THIRD MARK PEETS FROM JACK KEENAN 2-2 GAME, JUST 21 SECONDS LATER SLC SCORES AGAIN BRETT MAHONEY FROM DYLAN PATTERSON TO MAKE IT 3-2.  DON'T STOP THERE A MINUTE AND FIVE SECONDS LATER SLC ACORES AGAIN ZACH BALDWIN UNASSISTED 4-2.  BLUE DEVILS CALL TIMEOUT AND COME OUT OF THE TIMEOUT SCORE ERIC WHITCOMBE HIS SECOND TO MAKE IT 4-3 BUT A LATE EMPTY NETTER AND SLC GOES ONTO WIN THEIR FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP SINCE 1982 THE EMPTY NETTER SCORED BY BRADY HELMER.  IN NET JORDAN GARY FOR THE LARRIES 21 SAVES IN THE WIN, AND FOR THE DEVILS CHRIS HARPER 24 SAVES IN THE LOSS

GAME TWO THE DIVISION 1 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BETWEEN POTSDAM AND MASSENA.  THE RAIDERS SCORE LATE IN THE FIRST PERIOD TO TAKE A 1 TO NOTHING LEAD COLIN BAINES FROM NICK MOFFIT AND NATE MACDONALD.  NO SCORE IN THE SECOND EVEN THOUGH POTSDAM DOMINATED THE PERIOD JUST COULDN'T BURY THE BISCUIT.  LOOK LIKE MASSENA MAY BE ON ITS WAY TO WINNING BUT WITH JUST A MINUTE AND 40 SECONDS IN THE GAME POTSDAM'S RYAN MERRIMAN RIFLES A WRIST SHOT FROM THE BLUE LINE RIGHT SIDE THAT GOES LASER INTO THE NET TOP LEFT CORNER NATHAN LINT DON'T THINK EVER SAW IT AND ITS 1-1.  WE GO INTO THREE OVERTIME PERIODS AND FINALLY POTSDAM'S TURN GREG BURKUM OUT OF THE CORNER THROWING IT OUT FRONT TAYLOR HAZEN PICKS HER UP AND BURIES HER INTO THE BACK OF THE NET AND POTSDAM THE BOYS DIVISION ONE HOCKEY CHAMPIONS