Part 1 of hockey's Battle of The Cadets took place tonight at Conway Arena at Hudson Valley Community College in front of a nearly full house. Both teams were coming off bad losses in their previous games, LaSalle losing to CBA on Wednesday, while Academy was wrecked by Bethlehem. Something had to give.
After experimenting with pro style penalty minutes and added game time last year, the Capital District High School Hockey League reverted to the old system, with 15 minutes per period, and minor penalties scaled back to 90 seconds for each infraction. Major penalties would be 3-4 minutes. Apparently, the experiment didn't go over well around the league after all.
Digression over. Hoping to spark his offense, Academy coach Dave Rider started Emma McIntyre in goal. The junior looked solid for much of the first period, giving up only a late goal by LaSalle sophomore Forest Ward, who may or may not be related to first year athletic director Craig Ward. LaSalle, then, led, 1-0, at the first intermission.
Perhaps fittingly, the first song on the loudspeaker at intermission was Foreigner's "Cold as Ice".
In the second period, LaSalle turned up the heat, and knocked McIntyre from the game. With McIntyre sprawled on the ice, Shaun Branon popped one into the net to up the lead to 2-0. Just a minute or two later, there was a scrum around the crease. Down went McIntyre, again, and this time, Reid Murray took advantage to give the hosts a 3-0 lead. It took the officials about three minutes to decide whether or not the goal should stand, and, rightfully, it shouldn't have, not with all the traffic and interference in the crease. No wonder the Academy faithful were irate going into intermission, but not before LaSalle tacked on one more, as Pauley redirected a Jack Brown shot past Jackson Bissell, who'd relieved McIntyre.
Spencer Carpenter scored in the third to close things for LaSalle, but after Tim Carlson snapped Academy's scoring draught, LaSalle coach Tim Flanigan lifted starting goalie Leo Paul for Kyle McGee. McGee only allowed a goal by Sam Koenig the rest of the way, while Bissell finally got the vacuum going in net for Academy, shutting down LaSalle the rest of the way.
Just the same, LaSalle snaps a 2 game losing streak with the 5-2 win.
Up next for LaSalle is the annual Mohawks tournament on Friday at Union College. They'll play Brattleboro on Friday afternoon, and Saranac on Saturday morning.
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Other stuff: I had thought Troy High was going to Kingston for today's road game, which was still listed as "TBD", per Schedule Galaxy. Nope. They went to SUNY Cobleskill instead to play in a tournament, and dropped a 55-51 decision to Harry Truman High. Nasir Dawud-Soto, one of the heroes of the football team, led Troy with 13 points, while Marquis Hamby added 11 in a losing effort for Troy (2-4 overall).
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