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From left, Michael and John Marenghi, Will and Aidan Norton, coaches Jason and Jon Gardner, Drew and Dylan Damiani, and Jay and Jack Carpenter make history as five set<br />
Oh, brother<br />
times four<br />
By Mark Aboyoun<br />
Magazine Staff<br />
The Lynnfield hockey team (10-0-1)<br />
is off to a flying start this season. And if<br />
you’ve gone to a game, you might have<br />
seen multiple players with the same<br />
last name on more than one occasion.<br />
You weren’t going crazy – the Pioneers<br />
currently have four sets of siblings on the<br />
varsity team.<br />
Jack and Jay Carpenter, Drew and<br />
Dylan Damiani, John and Michael<br />
Marenghi, as well as Aidan and Will Norton<br />
are all on the team and contributing<br />
to the hot start. Even on the bench, head<br />
coach Jon Gardner and associate coach<br />
Jason Gardner are twins.<br />
Senior captain Drew Damiani recently<br />
picked up his 100th career point off of an<br />
assist from, guess who, his brother Dylan.<br />
“It was awesome to be able to get<br />
that huge milestone and have it be from<br />
my brother in the rink that we grew up<br />
playing together in. [It] was just special,”<br />
Drew Damiani said. “[It’s] something I’ll<br />
never forget.”<br />
As for the on-ice chemistry, it was in<br />
full effect.<br />
“You know the next move he’s going to<br />
make and where the puck is going to go,”<br />
Drew said. “It makes everything click that<br />
much easier.”<br />
Another milestone occurred this year<br />
in a 4-1 win over Groton Dunstable as<br />
Aidan Norton scored his first varsity goal<br />
– assisted by his twin brother Will.<br />
“He [Will] was going down the corner<br />
and I went through,” Aidan said. “He<br />
found me because of the chemistry – he<br />
knew exactly where I would be.”<br />
Despite the bonds on the ice, it’s the<br />
bonds off it that Jon Gardner likes the<br />
most.<br />
“It creates a nice family environment,”<br />
Jon Gardner said. “If you’re friends with<br />
the older brother, then you’ve known the<br />
younger brother his whole life and his<br />
friends, too. Everyone knows each other.”<br />
Drew Damiani and Aidan Norton both<br />
described the team as “one big family.”<br />
“We’ve always played together, we<br />
hang out together outside of school and<br />
all of our families are friends,” Drew said.
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