{"id":707,"date":"2020-02-25T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T19:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/?p=707"},"modified":"2020-02-25T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T19:31:30","slug":"willistons-prayers-answered-wildcats-beat-saints-7-2-drops-decision-to-the-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/2020\/02\/25\/willistons-prayers-answered-wildcats-beat-saints-7-2-drops-decision-to-the-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Williston\u2019s Prayers Answered\u2014Wildcats Beat Saints, 7-2; Drops Decision to the Doors\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seniors Tommy Harty and Jake Sacratini both had four-point nights on Wednesday as they helped lead Williston past Canterbury with a hat trick and an assist and a goal and a playmaker, respectively.\u00a0 Williston played a complete game in all zones of the ice and took a decisive, 7-2 victory.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sacratini got on the board early when a hard forecheck by Harty forced a Canterbury defenseman to cough make an errant pass from the corner of the defensive zone to an awaiting Sacratini who intercepted the pass at the hash marks and walked in beating Cal Skwara on the far post.\u00a0 Harty got his first goal of the night on the power play when Sacratini got the puck on the half<\/span>–<\/span>wall in the Canterbury zone, touched a pass to Tyler Varin who got the puck to the other half-wall to Will Tripp.\u00a0 Tripp then found a wide open Harty, who has set up residence in the high slot on power plays, and who drilled a one-timer past Skwara.\u00a0 Canterbury<\/span>\u00a0got<\/span>\u00a0a goal late in the period to get it within one.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the second, Williston got on a role.\u00a0 The first goal came when<\/span>\u00a0Charlie Monteith worked a puck up the wall to d-man, Mitch Hansen,\u00a0<\/span>who\u00a0<\/span>let a blast go that was saved by Skwara but that was batted in by Matt Pimental from his belly.\u00a0 Shaul Mitton got the fourth Williston goal off a sweet draw from Ryan Deschamps that landed right on his stick.\u00a0 The senior winger let the howitzer go that was deflected by a Canterbury d, past Skwara.\u00a0 Harty got his second of the game on the power play when Sacratini again, got the puck from Varin who let one fly from the point.\u00a0 (He will be leading a youth hockey clinic on shooting in the coming weeks.\u00a0 Ask him about it.)\u00a0 The rebound bounced onto Harty\u2019s stick and while the initial shot was blocked, he gathered his own rebound and tucked in a nifty backhand.\u00a0 The period would end with Williston up, 5-1.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex Latkovski put the \u2018Cats up 6-1 when Harty won a draw to the corner,\u00a0<\/span>p<\/span>ut sustained pressure on the Canterbury defenseman\u00a0<\/span>who tried to make a pass\u00a0<\/span>to his d-partner.\u00a0 Latkovski intercepted the pass on the near post, corralled the puck to the front of the net<\/span>\u00a0and, with his long reach, beat Skwara on the far post.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Williston got their final goal of the game when Canterbury drove into the Williston zone on the power play<\/span>\u00a0and coughed up the puck near\u00a0<\/span>Williston goalie, Emile Savoie.\u00a0 Will Tripp cleared the puck to Sacratini in the slot and the speedy\u00a0<\/span>winger cruised into the Canterbury zone and hit Harty with a backhand saucer pass that\u00a0<\/span>the captain buried garnering him the hat trick for the afternoon.\u00a0 Canterbury would score with 1.4 seconds left but Williston took the win.<\/span>\u00a0 Savoie earned the win kicking out 39 saves.\u00a0 The game puck went to Harty for his four-point night.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday night, Williston traveled up Route 91 to Deerfield for an evening soiree with the Gr<\/span>e<\/span>en Doors.<\/span>\u00a0 The game was riddled with penalties\u00a0<\/span>and Williston took the loss, dropping the contest, 6-2.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Deerfield came out flying at the opening of the first period stirring their already raucous crowd into a frenzy<\/span>\u00a0and scoring just a minute into the game.\u00a0 Williston answered\u00a0<\/span>ten minutes later\u00a0<\/span>when Brandon Barrett knocked a puck from the side of the Deerfield net to Charlie Monteith behind the net.\u00a0 Monteith drove to the opposite corner and slipped a puck to the slot where Matt Pimental took one-timer that beat Deerfield goalie<\/span>, Justin Prete, over the glove.\u00a0 The period ended, 1-1.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the second, Williston\u00a0<\/span>went up 2-1 when Varin sent a backhand pass from his own zone to sophomore Ryan Deschamps at the Deerfield blueline.<\/span>\u00a0 Deschamps drove to the net with Connor Hagness streaking to the post.\u00a0 Deschamps tried to make the pass but it was\u00a0<\/span>gathered in the gut<\/span>\u00a0by t<\/span>he sprawling\u00a0<\/span>Deerfield d-man.\u00a0 With\u00a0<\/span>poise, Deschamps collected the puck and put a soft backhander over the glove of Prete.<\/span>\u00a0 The fire was on the mountain and the Wildcats were feeling good about the direction they were head<\/span>ed<\/span>.\u00a0 However,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>a number of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>penalties\u00a0<\/span>cost the Wildcats even strength opportunities\u00a0<\/span>and,\u00a0<\/span>ultimately<\/span>, the game, losing 6-2.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The game was t<\/span>he inaugural game of the Pioneer Valley Prep Cup<\/span>, a game-by-game \u201ctournament\u201d between Pioneer Valley schools Deerfield, Northfield Mount Herman, and Williston.\u00a0 The format will be as follows<\/span>: w<\/span>hatever school possesses the cup when two of the three teams play, the cup will be on the line.<\/span>\u00a0 Since Deerfield won the game, they now possess the cup until next year when they play NMH early in the season<\/span>.\u00a0 It is possible that the cup could be pass through\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>three teams during one season if, every time the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>cup i<\/span>s up for grabs<\/span>, the other team wins.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Williston had the weekend off an<\/span>d<\/span>\u00a0will travel to Albany Academy on Wednesday afternoon for a f<\/span>our<\/span>\u00a0o\u2019clock tilt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seniors Tommy Harty and Jake Sacratini both had four-point nights on Wednesday as they helped lead Williston past Canterbury with a hat trick and an assist and a goal and a playmaker, respectively.\u00a0 Williston played a complete game in all zones of the ice and took a decisive, 7-2 victory.\u00a0 Sacratini got on the board … Continue reading Williston\u2019s Prayers Answered\u2014Wildcats Beat Saints, 7-2; Drops Decision to the Doors\u00a0<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hockey-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}