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FEBRUARY 6, 2020
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By Daniel Kane
Fenwick hockey stuns St. Mary’s
LYNN — It’s been an-up -and-down
season for the Bishop Fenwick boys
hockey team, but there’s no doubt the
Crusaders are riding high right now.
Led by a penalty kill that fought off six
power plays chances, Fenwick knocked
off St. Mary’s, 3-1, last week at Connery
Skating Rink.
“It’s huge for us,” Fenwick coach Jim
Quinlan said. “It’s a huge building thing
for us. We were like a roller coaster
going up and down. We went down to
Connecticut and played a No. 1 team
there, beat them 1-0 and played unbelievable.
Then we come home and we
struggle. It’s been hard for these kids, but
they never gave up. They had meetings
after the Arlington Catholic loss (6-3).
“I give (our team) tons of credit because
they put it together (Wednesday),”
Quinlan said. “They worked hard the last
two days for this game. They didn’t want
to lose this game.”
The Crusaders (7-6-1) had three
goal scorers in this one. Jake Murphy
got Fenwick on the board quick, Ian
Worthley scored the eventual game
winner late in the second period and a
red-hot Cam Martin added a huge insurance
goal to cap off the win.
“(Martin) has a great shot and we
need that,” Quinlan said. “He’s a great
hockey player, transferred in and has
been learning our ways. He’s starting to
come around, and has gotten three goals
in the last three games for us.”
Jack Vieira allowed an early goal but
was sharp the rest of the way while the
Crusader’s work preparing for St. Mary’s
power play paid off in a big way.
“We work penalty kill all the time,”
Quinlan said. “We were aggressive on
the penalty kill, I don’t sit in a box. I’ve
never coached that. I believe in attacking
constantly. (Davis Kinne) is their guy so
we keyed on him. We attacked and attacked
him so he wouldn’t be able to get
shots as much.”
Max Giardina scored St. Mary’s lone
goal, but overall the Spartan’s struggled
to find the back of the net.
“We really struggled,” Spartans coach
Mark Lee said. “We hit the crossbar
a couple of times. We missed a couple
wide open nets that could’ve changed
the game. But I give Fenwick credit,
they seemed to want it more than we
did. They battled for three periods and
seemed to have a little more energy.”
Fenwick had a goal waved off as the
St. Mary’s net got knocked off its bearings
but didn’t stop playing aggressive
in the opening minute. Murphy grabbed
a loose puck out front of the net and
scored just 58 seconds in to put Fenwick
ahead 1-0.
The Spartans responded midway
through the first. Chris Kolodziej had
the puck knocked away from his stick
but Giardina was there to finish the play
and score to tie things up at 1-1.
Things stayed tied for over 20 minutes
but Fenwick’s penalty kill stayed busy
dealing with four different St. Mary’s
power plays.
Just after killing off a man advantage
Worthley finished a 3-on-1 offensive
chance with a goal to put Fenwick ahead
2-1 with just 24 ticks left in the second
period.
The Spartans had a brief 5-on-3 advantage
early in the third but couldn’t
cash in. Martin added his insurance goal
with six minutes left on the clock and
Fenwick wrapped up the road win.
“We need to get better,” Lee said.
“Fenwick is a pretty good team but we
just as a team did not play well for three
periods. When you do that you’re not
going to be on the winning side of the
game.”
“The biggest thing is now this team
has some confidence,” Quinlan said.
“They were down because we lost to
Arlington Catholic, Melrose and played
terribly. Now they know we can play
with the best teams and beat them.
PHOTO | OLIVIA FALCIGNO
Cam Martin scored an insurance goal in Fenwick’s boys hockey win over St.
Mary’s.
Tanner girls basketball is still struggling
ROUNDUP
By Anne Marie Tobin
The struggles of the Peabody
girls basketball team continued
last week, which concluded
with a 49-46 road loss to
Marblehead Friday night.
Peabody led by as many as
19 points, but struggled in the
second half, finishing with only
seven fourth-quarter points to
drop to 5-9 and put its tournament
hopes in jeopardy.
“We had the lead the whole
game but we just don’t have
the maturity to win the close
games,” said coach Stan
McKeen. “We led by seven
points going into the fourth
quarter, but scored only seven
and you aren’t going to win too
many games doing that.”
Senior captains Emily Carney
(13 points, five steals, five assists)
and Georgia Leon (11
points, five rebounds) led the
Tanners (5-9), while Emma
Bloom also had a good game
with nine points, 10 rebounds
and five assists.
“We are a young team and
young teams struggle in games
like this one,” McKeen. “Making
the tournament is going to be
close as we now have to win five
of our last six games, and that’s
not going to be easy.”
McKeen highlighted the play
of Carney, Leon and Bloom.
“That was Emily’s best game
of the season all-around and
Georgia played an excellent
game,” McKeen said. “Emma
also did a great job.”
Emily Clough and Leila
Walton both recorded double-doubles
for the Magicians
in the win, with Clough
notching 21 points and 15 rebounds
and Walton recording
14 points and 10 rebounds.
Maddie Erskine, Fehr Gillet,
Molly Cronin, Maddy Lowy
and Cat Candelaria also played
well for the Magicians (14-2).
Peabody’s next game is
Friday night at home against
NEC rival Beverly (7).
Winthrop 43, Peabody 40
The Tanners had the lead for
much of the game but too many
turnovers and fouls proved to
be fatal Jan. 29 at home. Taylor
Bettencourt led the Tanners
with nine points, while Leon
had eight. Forwards Amber
Kiricoples (11 rebounds, 6
points) and Lauryn Mendonca
(5 points, 5 rebounds) also
played well. Carney finished
with six points.
“At times, we play not to
win,” said McKeen. “The game
went from six to nine points to
start the third quarter and then
we made some tactical errors.
The third quarter has been our
nightmare all year.”
BOYS BASKETBALL
Marblehead 48, Peabody 43
Friday night at home, Tyler
Joyce led the Tanners with
17 points while Joangel Lugo
had 10 points and three steals.
Chioke Onwuogu had eight
points and eight rebounds.
Marblehead was led by Dylan
Freddo, who notched a double-double
with 13 points and 17
rebounds.
Cole Kronberg added 11
points, while Adam Zamansky
had six points and 10 rebounds.
Peabody (7-8) is back in
action Friday night at home
against NEC rival Beverly (7).
Peabody 74, Whittier 29
It was all Tanners all game
long in the Tanners’ win over
Whittier Tech Thursday night
at Peabody Veterans Memorial
High School. Thirteen Tanners
scored points.
“We wanted to try to get
as many guys in there as we
could,” Peabody coach Thad
Broughton. “I thought everybody
that came off the bench
did a really nice job. Whittier
was missing three starters
(Thursday). We knew that
coming into the game. But I
thought our guys played hard
and did a nice job.”
Lugo gave the Tanners the
spark they needed to have a
big night, scoring all 16 of
his points in the first half and
adding four steals. Onwuogu
also had a solid night with 10
points and four rebounds.
Peabody also got several
solid performances off the
bench. Gabe Claro scored six
points while Brajan Jakic added
six points and seven rebounds.
Drew Lucas and Nick Soper
each scored five points. Elvin
Saldana scored three points with
five rebounds. Krisli Miraka
(four points) also scored.
Peabody 70, Winthrop 37
Tuesday at Winthrop, the
Tanners earned the win behind
Lugo, who scored 24 points to
pace the offense. Joyce added
15 points.