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Nashoba Squirt A
The Nashoba Grizzlies Squirt A team won their game Saturday against Concord-Carlisle, 7-0. Goalie Kieran Humphries withstood many challenges from the Concord team, but held on for the shutout, his second of the season. Cam Joos and Ronan McGowan led the scoring, each with four points, Cam notching the hat trick. Murphy MacLeod, Owen Boyer, Charles Becker, and Steven Reedy each chipped in with additional offense to round out the scoring. The Grizzlies played solid defense in front of Kieran, with Matthew Loyall, Jack Borges, Aditya Bains, and Damian DiNitto chasing down rushes and denying many scoring chances. The Nashoba Squirt A team is now 5-1-1 in the parity round.
Nashoba Squirt AAA
Nashoba Squirt AAA lose tight game against Twin City on Saturday, October 11. The Twin City team got on the board early in the first with two quick goals. With Nashoba back on its heels, Will Gaynor picked up the puck, went on a breakaway and then collected his own rebound to get the Grizzlies on the board in the first. The next goal came on a Nashoba line change, Devin Marshall found himself all alone with the puck, raced into Twin City territory and scored the tying goal, 2-2! Twin City broke the tie with 36 seconds left in the first period.
The second period opened with Jack Nelken taking the puck to the goal thru traffic and getting the pass to Daniel Son for the goal 3-3. Nashoba takes the lead on a Matty Mulhern breakaway goal at 9:09 in the second period. Grizzlies up 4-3. Mulhern less than two minutes later gets a pass from Ben Solari for an insurance goal, 5-3.
The third period started with Twin City getting one back, Nashoba up 5-4. With a minute to go in the third period Twin City pulls their goalie and scores with 51 seconds left in the game, 5-5. With both teams at even strength Twin City scored a go ahead goal from the left circle, 5-6. Nashoba pulled goalie Jon Doherty, Matty Mulhern gets the puck off the face off goes down the ice for the shot, the buzzer sounds before the puck finds the net. Nashoba loses a tough fought game 6-5. The Nashoba Squirt AAA’s play two games next weekend, Saturday, Oct 17 vs Concord Carlisle and Sunday, Oct 18 vs Northern Cyclones.
Nashoba Pee Wee AA
The Nashoba Grizzlies Peewee AA team won game 5-0 against Billerica on Saturday. Starting off the scoring for Nashoba at 5:15 in the 1st period was Kyle Doney assisted by Will Donovan and Dominic Marshall. Mr. Marshall shot in Nashoba’s 2nd goal at 7:23 in the 2nd assisted by Justin Liona. Following less than 1 minute later at 6:28 as Scotty McCabe throwing in goal number 3 assisted by Pete Bonenfant. McCabe also scored again at 9:50 in the 3rd period. Rounding out the game with goal number 5 was an unassisted goal by Bonenfant. This shutout win for goalie, Jonathan Doherty, was assisted by defensewoman Meghan Mulhern and defensemen Will Donovan, Nathan Lux and Justin Liona. The Peewee AA team now has a record of 5-0.
Nashoba Pee Wee AAA
Nashoba Pee Wee AAA lose tight game 7-6 against a tough Methuen team. Nashoba Pee Wee AAA had the lead against for most of the game against Methuen AAA even out shooting Methuen 30-22. The first period Nashoba put three goals on the board from Derek Peterson, Matthew Wing and Michael Castracane with assists from Derek Peterson, Hunter Bichao, Aiden Peterson, Sam Cioffi, Brandon Bailey and Wing. Nashoba managed to keep Methuen to only one goal at the end of the first period. The second period Nashoba and Methuen each scored two goals. Dante Strong got himself on the board with a goal and Bailey came away with an impressive performance for a goal and an assist. Cioffi had hand in both goals leaving the period with two more assists for the day. In the 3rd period Methuen came back and outscored Nashoba 4-1. Nashoba’s last goal for the day was scored by Aiden Peterson with an assist from Derek Peterson and Ryan Alonardo. Ryan Alonardo, Jason Brake, Samuel Castracane and David MacLure worked hard in defense to help Christian Guglielmo defend the net. Guglielmo stopped an impressive 23 of the 30 shots on him. Congratulations on the 7-6 win Methuen – we look forward to playing you again this season.
Nashoba Pee Wee AAA opened the weekend on Saturday with a tough 5-4 loss against Lexington-Bedford. In the first period Lexington outscored Nashoba 4-2. Nashoba had goals scored by Hunter Bichao and Derek Peterson with 2 assists from Brandon Bailey. In the second period Nashoba scored 2 goals and Lexington scored 1. At 7:09 into the second period Ryan Alonardo put one on the board with some help from Sam Cioffi and Matthew Wing. Bailey scored with some help from defensive player Dante Strong. Christian Guglielmo had an impressive game with only allowing 5 of the 21 shots on him. Nashoba’s -Jason Brake, Sam Castracane, David MacLure and Dante Strong – remained tough with staggered defense through most of the game but in the end Lexington outscored Nashoba. The third period ended without a goal scored for the period.
Nashoba Girls U10
Nashoba Girls U10 have a big win 7-5 win over the Lady Crusaders. A big win for the Girls U10 team, who skated away with a hard fought 7-5 victory over the Lady Crusaders. The strong offensive game was led by Jocelyn Silva, who scored a hat trick and also came up with an assist. Zoe Musante came in big with 2 goals and an assist as well as offering up an outstanding defensive game. Rounding out the scoring for the Grizzlies were Callie Haggan and Emily Lux, each of whom had one goal and one assist. With only eight girls playing, the Grizzlies left everything they had on the ice. Kendall Moran and Kelly Paquet were consistently strong and dependable on defense, and Emma Boylen helped keep the offense alive. Mackenzie Donoghue had a great game in the net, making many key saves throughout the game. The Grizzlies take on Medfield next Sunday at 5:00 p.m. at the Norfolk Arena.
Nashoba U14 Girls
Nashoba U14 girls lost a close game to Norwood 3-1. Kim Cornetta scored with 4 minutes left to make it a 2-1 game. Nashoba fought hard until the end but could not solve the Norwood goalie. Brianna Bailey and Erika Ware each had an assist on the goal. Allie Kingsley was solid in net.
Nashoba Bantam AAA
Nashoba Grizzlies Bantam AAA soundly defeat Twin City 6-1
The grizzlies put forth arguably their most complete 36 minutes of two-way hockey so far this young preseason. Victorious, the win will most likely leap frog Nashoba over Twin City in the current Valley league standings and into second place.
It was a strong performance by the team as a whole while being down two players for the game, including top defenseman Chance Bichao who be out till January with a broken collarbone. The shorthanded defensive unit was propped up by Jeff Brake moving back from wing and playing as if he had played there from the start of the season. Strong overall team defense bolstered by continued improved play of the other defenseman, Joe Cornetta, Brian Ellis, and Matt Gould slowed Twin City’s offensive attack. Limiting prime scoring opportunities for the opposition is a good recipe for success when you can play in front of the consistent and fundamentally sound goal tending of Ben Canfield who turned away another 22 shots and only allowed 3 goals in the last three games.
Scoring was led by Nashoba’s top and smallest line who continue to show good skills and heads up play. A hat trick By Max Strong, two more goals added by Nolan Ratte, and strong supporting play by Liam Fisher who also added an assist of his own. Not to be outdone in providing the firepower was the 2nd line of Timmy Kelleher and Sean Mizzoni who both kick in two assists of their own. Line-mate Dan Cornetta also chipped in and scored a beautiful shorthanded goal in the second period. After stealing the puck, Dan turned on the jets and made a fantastic move around a Twin City defenseman, drove to the net and took a perfect short-side shot putting it past the goal tender and giving Nashoba a 5-1 lead at the time.
Taking on the very important role of floater, the extra forward playing multiple positions along the offensive front, was Ryan O’regan. Ryan handled the responsibilities superbly, staying focus and hardworking throughout the game while constantly changing roles.
It was another good small step in the right direction for the team. That momentum will need to be continued forward to the next game which will be the Bantam AAA’s biggest challenge facing off against undefeated Acton Boxboro.
