WEST LEBANON — There are good ties and bad ties and, all things considered, the Lebanon-Stevens-Kearsarge girls hockey team will lump Tuesday’s 3-3 draw against Bishop Brady-Trinity-West with the former. The Raiders couldn’t hold three leads at Campion Rink, but playing without three competitors and with others sick, coach Mike Sheehan viewed the glass as half-full.
“It was a weird game,” said Sheehan, whose 3-2-1 team had to kill off nine penalties and played much of the contest’s last 20 minutes down a player. “We couldn’t quite put that team away, but after taking so many penalties and with girls coughing their lungs up, we’ll take it.”
Lebanon’s Makayla Maccioli opened the scoring after 50 seconds with an assist from Maya Barnett. The hosts forged a 2-0 lead 10 minutes later on a Marissa Pickman tally. The visitors halved their deficit 16 seconds before the intermission.
Lebanon’s Lily Barber scored off a Maccioli feed midway through the second period but Bishop Brady-Trinity-West (4-2-1) answered just 39 seconds later and the score was 3-2 after two stanzas. The Giant Pioneers’ Isabella Payne closed the scoring three minutes before the second intermission.
“We’re disappointed because it’s a game we could have won, but I’m proud of how our girls fought throughout,” said Sheehan, whose team hosts Pinkerton on Thursday and visits Bishop Guertin on Saturday.
Lebanon-Stevens-Kearsarge played without injured senior forward Ella Lindsay and lost Pickman to illness during the game. Senior defender Celia Barnett has been out hurt for nearly a month and her sister, Maya Barnett, fainted on the ice immediately after Tuesday’s final horn, leading to a 15-minute delay in the subsequent ice resurfacing. The sophomore later left the rink under her own power.
— Tris Wykes
NEWBURY, Vt. — Playing for the second consecutive night, the Raptors overcame a 21-17 halftime deficit to remain perfect a perfect 9-0.
Rivendell was led by Kyle Carter’s 20 points. Luke Senn had eight and Zach Gould tallied had six.
“We had some trouble waking up in the first half,” Raptors coach Ross Convertino said over the phone. “Definitely uncharacteristic, energy-effort thing. We were just not doing the little things.
“We felt that our gameplay was fine at halftime; we just had to execute and play harder. We were able to make enough plays in the second half. We had to find a way to grind it out.”
Rivendell welcomes White River Valley to Orford on Saturday.
HOPKINTON, N.H. — Despite Ben Seiler’s monster night, the Royals couldn’t close out on the road.
The sophomore guard hit four 3-pointers and finished with a season-high 31 points. The Hawks used a 22-8 second quarter to ultimately put the game out of Mascoma’s reach.
“Ben Schwarz took an elbow to the mouth early in the second quarter,” Royals coach Silas Ayres said. “It took us a while to adjust to missing our starting point guard. Their size wore us down, too.”
Mascoma (4-4 overall, 3-3 NHIAA) hosts Berlin on Friday night.
WESTMINSTER, Vt. — The Hurricanes dropped their third consecutive game, falling to 3-4 on the season.
Kennedy Mullen knocked down three treys en route to a team-high 17 points. Jasmine Jenkins added seven points. Elsie Davis, Beth Dobrich, Davan Murphy and Madison Withington each had four points.
Hartford hosts Randolph on Saturday.
POMFRET, Vt. — Aaron Wilson paced Woodstock at Suicide Six with a time of 59.18 seconds, good enough for top honors as the Wasps won the four-team race.
Stephen Bianchi (1:09.93), Orion Beardsley (1:13.01) and Otto Nisimblat (1:15.53) finished 4-5-6. Carl Gebhardt (1:17.68) rounded out the top 10 for the Wasps with a ninth-place finish.
Hartford’s Ian O’Brien finished 10th in 1:17.75.
Team Scores: Woodstock 16, Burr & Burton 29, Rutland 50, Mount St. Joseph 53.
POMFRET, Vt. — Woodstock finished due to a tiebreaker at 20 points with Burr & Burton. After including the fifth finisher from both teams, the Bulldogs walked away with a 1-point victory.
Still, the Wasps found success with Alice Sperber finishing first with a time of 1:03.39, faster than the next fastest racer by three seconds. Taylor Blodorn (1:07.38) and Abigail Masillo (1:07.76) finished 4-5. Maggie Parker (1:11.73) placed 10th .
Team Scores: Burr & Burton 20*, Woodstock 20, Rutland 45.
HANOVER — Dartmouth’s Jack Traynor and Drew Estrada joined three other Ivy Leaguers on the 53-player FCS Athletic Directors Association’s academic all-star team on Tuesday.
Traynor made the list for the third straight year, carrying a 3.68 grade-point average as an engineering major. A linebacker, Traynor won the Ivy League’s Bushnell Cup as defensive player of the year after the Big Green’s run to a league championship last season.
Estrada, a second-team all-Ivy selection at wide receiver and kick returner, made the FCSADA list with a 3.35 GPA in economics modified with sociology. Players are eligible for the list if they have a minimum 3.20 GPA and have been a starter or key contributor with legitimate athletic credentials.
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Boys Hockey
HENNIKER, N.H. — The Raiders (2-5-0 overall, 2-3-0 NHIAA) earned a much-needed win, scoring three unanswered goals to beat the General Hawks.
Tristan Ouellette scored on the power play midway through the first period to counter an early John Stark score and knot things up at 1-1. Andrew Duany followed with a go-ahead goal, assisted by Jon Cloud, in the second. The Raiders failed to convert on a two-minute, 5-on-3 power play in the middle stanza but still held the lead into the final period.
Griffin Auch scored an insurance goal in the third period, following the rebound of shots by Duany and Cloud.
“We talked a lot about what we wanted the boys to do, and today they bought in and played well,” Raiders coach Jim Damren said. “We got pucks in deep, created offense. It was a good, solid win.”
Goalie Toby Cromwell made 23 saves for the Raiders, who will host Kingswood on Saturday.