Ben backbones Sunapee to the finals.
Game 2
SUNAPEE 5 CANNON 5 The Navy team just needed a tie to advance to the finals, and a third period rally got them that tie and a chance at a t-shirt next week. If you remember this started with an 0-6 record. But 8 weeks later, they have not lost a game, and now the Navy team is headed to the title game. It wasn't easy this week, as they fall behind 5-2 in the third period to the 2nd place red team. "It started with a Mark Kramer goal with 8 minutes left," said Andy Long. "That can't happen in the playoffs. I think that really crushed us." Kevin Flanagan then scored with 5 minutes left to make it 5-4. "I could see the unraveling in front of me," noted Tom Fuji. "Our guys were playing nervous. Especially the veterans." Rick Bobrycki finally completed the comeback with his goal with just 1:40 to play to tie it at 5-5. "We knew Ben was gonna give up 5, so we needed to score 5, we barely made it," said Bobrycki. The red team had just 100 seconds to score to force a game 3. That didn't happen. The buzzer sounded and with the tie Sunapee would advance to the finals. "The refs had it out for us today," said Jake Steigerwald from his limo. "We think that they liked them better than us." "While that is true, we still called a fair game," said one of the refs. So 3rd place Sunapee will advance to the finals next week. Cannon also advances to next week, but to a different game. Game 3 N/A |
.jpg)