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Knights Icemen Tie Whitesboro

Wed, Feb 03, 2010

Knights Icemen Tie Whitesboro

If you strolled in fashionably late for the HCS vs. Whitesboro hockey game at Starr Rink, you still saw the best part of the game.

It wasn't until the third period that much of the action took place, including Hamilton's come-from-behind goal to tie the score 4-4 with less than two minutes left to play. Theither team scored in the five-minute overtime so both ended up with a point.

The tie keeps the Emerald Knights in fourth place in the league -- two points ahead of Clinton -- with playoff hopes still alive. The Knights have two games left: Friday vs. Cazenovia and next Thursday vs. Rome Free Academy.

Alex Brink scored Hamilton's first goal on an assist from Derrick Rogers. Whitesboro scored and the two teams remainded knotted 1-1 until the wild and wooly third period.

In the third, brink added his second goal of the night, this time assisted by Kinnon Nolan-Finkel. Freshamn Brandon Thomas scored -- assisted by Brink and Charlie Campbell-Decock -- to make it 4-3.

With 1:20 left, Hamilton pulled goalie Brady Carroll. Hamilton won a faceoff in Whitesboro's end and Rogers put it over the goalie's shoulder and into the net to make it 4-4.

Carroll finished the night with 28 saves. HCS put 20 shots on the Whitesboro net.

Coach Murray Decock said Hamilton was playing without senior captain Jimmy Smith, who was sidelined with an illness.

Next Thursday's home game is Senior Night. Seniors on the squad (in photo) include (front row from left) Nick Heinz, Brendon Rusch, Blaine Holcomb (standing from left) Derrick Rogers, Jimmy Smith and Joe Santoro.

 

 

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