By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Andrew Mitchell received the puck at the top of the key just inside the blue line and the defense quickly closed in. Mitchell flicked the puck towards the goal, and Jacob Herz deflected it off the bottom corner of the crossbar and into the back of the net. Herz’s deflection for a goal midway through the third period sealed a 1-0 victory for Hall-Southington (7-1-0) over Rockville-Bolton-Coventry-RHAM (1-6-0) at home on Saturday, Jan. 16, giving the Warrior-Knights their sixth straight victory. Hall-Southington coach Brian Cannon said that the goal energized the team after two back-and-forth, scoreless periods. “We were kind of listless, flattened, and directionless there for a while. Things were not clicking for us today,” said Cannon. “That seemed to get us to bear down a little bit better, and the goal seemed to put a little bit of the energy in us that I thought we weren’t showing in the first two periods.” Once again, Adam Faust kept the Warrior-Knights in the game, earning his second shutout of the season with 20 saves. Cannon said that Foust has bubbled up as the starting goalie at this point in the season, but it’s not a […]
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Andrew Mitchell received the puck at the top of the key just inside the blue line and the defense quickly closed in. Mitchell flicked the puck towards the goal, and Jacob Herz deflected it off the bottom corner of the crossbar and into the back of the net. Herz’s deflection for a goal midway through the third period sealed a 1-0 victory for Hall-Southington (7-1-0) over Rockville-Bolton-Coventry-RHAM (1-6-0) at home on Saturday, Jan. 16, giving the Warrior-Knights their sixth straight victory. Hall-Southington coach Brian Cannon said that the goal energized the team after two back-and-forth, scoreless periods. “We were kind of listless, flattened, and directionless there for a while. Things were not clicking for us today,” said Cannon. “That seemed to get us to bear down a little bit better, and the goal seemed to put a little bit of the energy in us that I thought we weren’t showing in the first two periods.” Once again, Adam Faust kept the Warrior-Knights in the game, earning his second shutout of the season with 20 saves. Cannon said that Foust has bubbled up as the starting goalie at this point in the season, but it’s not a […]