Boys' hockey team beats North Attleboro,
Stoughton
By Jay Turner
Citizen Staff
While the
goals were somewhat hard to come by, the CHS boys’ varsity
hockey team still managed to collect two more well-deserved wins
last week, beating North Attleboro 3-0 at home and Stoughton 2-0
on the road to improve to 7-1-1 with five leage games remaining.
 On Wednesday
against the Red Rocketeers, the Bulldogs got off to a strong
start and had several early scoring chances, but it was senior
captain Frank Eckler who finally broke the scoreless tie, taking
the puck end to end before firing a wrist shot past the NA
goalie to make it 1-0.
Then, with
about two minutes left in the period, Canton’s Pat Ward made it
2-0 with his first ever varsity goal — a goal that head coach
Brian Shuman called the “biggest of the game.”
In the second
quarter, three Canton penalties severely limited the Bulldogs
offensively, but they were also able to keep North Attleboro in
check before sealing the win with a third-period goal by senior
captain Matt Buckley — his first of the season — assisted by
senior Joey DiPillo.
Three days
later, the Bulldogs traveled to Stoughton where the Knights,
despite their inferior record thus far, played every bit as well
as the score indicated, according to Shuman.
Although
Canton controlled the pace of play all afternoon, Shuman said
Stoughton’s defensemen did a good job protecting the net; as a
result, the game remained scoreless until late in the second
period, when the Bulldogs broke it open with two goals in less
than 80 seconds, the first by Kevin Rooney and the second by
senior captain Billy Duggan.
Canton (9-2-1)
had a busy week this week with three games in six days:
nonleague Pembroke on Monday, King Philip on Wednesday, and at
Oliver Ames on Saturday.
February 4, 2010
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