Boys' updates

The Hockey team traveled down to Brattleboro and the Basketball team hopped on over to Lamoille on Friday night. The hockey team came away with the 4-3 win as Sophomore Center J. Thompson netted two goals for the Wolves. The boys play next at home on Saturday vs. the Hilltoppers from St. J. Face off time is 5pm.

The Boys' Basketball team was looking for a little payback after being crushed by 30 points at The Den by the Lancers in the first of two games this season. The game was back and forth all night with the score being tied at 22 at the half and Lamoille being up 29-27 after 3. The game stayed close (31-31), but with 4 minutes left in the 4th, Lamoille started scoring and PA found it hard to fill the hoop. The final score was 44-34, but many of the boys felt good about their effort. They play at Lake Region on Friday 1/14 at 6/7:30

1.4.11 updates

It was a lose-lose situation last night for boys winter sports...First let's get to the hoop action...The boys hosted Lake Region last night at The Den and came away with two L's. The JV game started out with the boys going down 10-1 and after one it was 13-1. The boys then held the JV Rangers scoreless for the first 6 minutes of the second quarter and clawed their way back to make it 20-14 at halftime. The boys fought hard, but the Rangers led the rest of the game and came away with the W. The Varsity game was a different animal all together. the boys jumped out to a 13-3 lead early and led the game until about 4:30 left in the 4th quarter, when Lake Region tied the game at 20. The game then went 22-22, 24-24, and then the Rangers pulled away with two quick layups and a three to go up 31-24. The Rangers added four more and the boys added 4 more and Lake Region came away with the 35-28 win. The boys are now 1-4 on the season and travel to Lamoille on Friday for 6 and 7:30 games.

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S.Shane with the jumper 

K.Mandigo with the layup

E. Cross with the runner

R. Davis with the driving jumper

The boys hockey team, which had been a goal scoring tear for its first 7 games (50 goals), was held scoreless last night at Stowe and suffered their first loss of the season. Stowe won 4-0 and Senior Stowe player Ross Mandigo picked up his 100th career point during the game. The boys look to get back on track as they travel to Brattleboro on Friday for a 3:00pm game with Colonels.

Updates, updates, and oh yes more updates

Hope all you PA sports fans had a fun and relaxing Winter break...school is back in session and a lot happened over the break, so let's get right to it...

First off we have to talk Hockey. As we head into the new year the Hockey Team is now 7-0 and on top of the Lake Division. The first day of the break they traveled to Norwich to take on St. Johnsbury in the first round of the Scott Boyce Memorial Tournament. They won the game 6-5 and took their spot in the championship game the next day against host Northfield. They beat Northfield 8-5 for the championship in game that saw senior J.Caldwell score 4 goals. 

With the hardware for the Boyce Tourney in hand they returned to Green Mountain Arena on 12/27 to face cross-county rival Stowe. In what would prove to be a fantastically played hockey game for both teams, tied 2-2 going into the 3rd period, the Wolves would pull off the W in dramatic fashion. Senior T. Guy would score the go ahead goal unassisted with about 9 minutes left in the game. Caldwell added an insurance goal about 5 minutes later. While the offense got the goals that solidified the win, the team could not have won without the stingy goal-tending of sophomore L. Caldwell. Caldwell was a beast between the pipes stopping 47 of Stowe's 49 shots on net. 

Two nights later on 12/29 the boys  had a rematch with Northfield at Green Mountain Arena. The boys jumped out to a 4-0 lead and it was 4-1 after the 1st period. Northfield came out strong in the 2nd, and with 5 minutes left in the 3rd Northfield took the lead 6-5. With the momentum shifted in the Marauders direction, Coach Loh called a timeout and gathered the team. They responded well and scored 3 goals in the next 1:41. It started with the tying goal from junior S. Loh on a 5-3 power play. Senior J. Caldwell then went the length of the ice skating through the entire Northfield team to deliver a blistering wrist shot past the Northfield netminder for the game winner. Loh added the insurance goal and the boys pulled out the gutsy win 8-6.

The boys travel south down RT 100 tonight for a rematch with Stowe. Face-off time is 6:30...Get there early for a seat and dress warm...

It's hard to see here, but T. Guy is scoring the go-ahead goal against Stowe on 12/27.
Captured from video courtesy of    R. Hinrichs Sr.

Next let's talk hoop. With both the boys and girls starting of winless this year, it was nice to see last week 12/30 and last night 1/3 for them both to get their first wins of the season. 

With the Lamoille game--a 61-31 loss--still fresh in their minds, the boys took to the floor against another cross-county rival Stowe on 12/30. The game started off very evenly matched but ended with the boys getting their first victory of the still young season. Sophomore S. Angione poured in 11 hard-earned points, and R. Davis added 9. Angione was named WLVB/Booth Bros. player of the game by radio announcer Brent Curtis. The offense was good, but the real story was seniors N. Jones and C. Mandigo holding Stowe standout J. Scrubb to just 9 points for the game. The boys tip-off with Lake Region tonight at home; game times are 5:30/7pm...

With Stowe canceling their girls season, we looked to add two game to the schedule for the teams. On 12/28 the girls made the trek down to Oxbow for one of those makeup games. Coach Mac sasid the girls played their best game of the season to that point and were extremely competitive for the duration of the game. However, everytime the Lady Wolves would get close, Oxbow would pull away. The game ended 49-40.

Last night the girls got their first win of the season over Craftsbury 44-26. The girls are 12 deep this year and Coach Mac has no problem playing everyone. All the girls contributed in the W, but it was K. Newton who came away with player of the game honors from Curtis. The Ladies travel south tomorrow to take on Twinfield. Game times are 5:30/7pm. 

Top: Jill S. plays tough D under the boards
Bottom: Olivia P. Grabs a defensive board and looks to outlet

Not much to report on the Nordic Skiing front. The fickle weather has played a huge role in how much actual skiing is happening, but we'll keep you up-to-date as the season progresses...