By Warren Kozireski —
Hobart grew to become simply the fourth Division III males’s hockey program to win three consecutive championships with a 2-1 additional time win at Utica Sunday evening.
“I’m actually comfortable for this group; from day one they set some spectacular objectives for this system they usually met them,” Hobart head coach Mark Taylor stated.
“To get it as soon as is a heck of an accomplishment, to get it twice you’re feeling very grateful and 3 times I believed this one was problem met.”
After a scoreless first interval, Utica took a 1-0 lead as sophomore ahead Eric Vitale netted his third purpose of the NCAA playoffs on a rebound with assists from sophomore ahead Andrew Della Rovere and senior ahead Matt Wooden.
High seed Hobart tied it at 8:35 of the third interval after a impartial zone turnover. Freshman ahead Easton Ryan scored with assists from senior ahead Luke Aquaro and sophomore defenseman Bauer Morrissey (Skaneateles).
Hobart ended the sport with 1:36 remining within the first additional time on junior ahead Khalil Fontana’s purpose.
“It took a bizarre bounce off the backwall I feel and simply popped off in entrance of the online and I noticed the D attempting to leap and I knew I needed to get the puck on my different facet and round him…then I simply tried to guarantee that I bought that one on internet,” Fontana stated.
“Clearly a gut-wrencher for us, heartbreaker,” Utica head coach Gary Heenan stated. “I used to be nervous about us being in awe of that workforce. We needed to climate the primary 5 minutes after which I then I believed we took over. I appreciated our battle…I appreciated out recreation plan and that’s one helluva hockey workforce.”
Hobart joins Wisconsin-Stevens Pont (1989, 1990, 1991) and Middlebury twice (1995-99, 5 years and 2004, 2004, 2006) to win three consecutive titles.
(Photograph by Koz, NY Hockey OnLine)
