Landon Hockey 5 St. Albans 2

The Bears faced a young Bulldogs team (8 members of the 2021 class and 7 from 2020) but beating the visitors at the Bears’ Den was needed to complete an undefeated IAC season. Landon completed its sweep of its conference.

The home team created separation from their foes in the first 0:47 of the game. Winning the face-off and driving to the StA goal resulted in a Jake Davidson (“happy birthday to you”) to Ryan Giles tally @14:25. Faceoff #2 caused the puck to go to Nico Kenary and the Argentinian Assassin put the buck pass the Bulldogs’ goalie @ 14:13.

The traditional rival did not wilt and got on the scoreboard at 11:07.

Landon reestablished its control when one of its 2021players, Jack-Henry Lages passed to Captain Owen Concannon for the 3^rd goal @9:41.

The remainder of this opening period was sloppy and marked with three consecutive penalties. Ty Morton faced only 4 SOGs (3 saves) and his buddies on O threw 15 SOGs on the StA netminder.

END OF 1^ST PERIOD BEARS 3 BULLDOGS 1

The next 15 minute segment saw a plethora of Bear shots (16) with only one goal—Will Jarrett to Tommy Kenary to Nico @ 9:32. The Bulldogs managed to put 6 shots on Ty and one beat the Bear protector of the 72” x 48” net at 11:58.

END OF 2^ND PERIOD BEARS 4 BULLGOGS 2

After the ice was resurfaced, neither team saw much success. The Bears passed a lot, but shots hit the StA goalie, wide right or left or over. The young Bulldogs were shut out for this last section of the game.

Down by two goals, the visiting coach pulled his goalie late in the period. Joey Graham shot the puck at the empty net @ 0:22.5

Ty stopped 3 shots (12 saves for the game) and the Bear O sent 7 vulcanized rubber units at the StA net man in the 3^rd (38 over the 45 minutes).

FINAL SCORE BEARS 5 BULLDOGS 2

LOOK FOR VERNON HOLLEMAN’S POST ON THE BASKETBALL TEAM’S UPSET OF StA.