BC High tops Hingham to reach final
SUPER EIGHT
LOWELL — For the first time since 2012, BC High will play at the Garden for a shot at the Super Eight title.
The second-ranked Eagles (18-4-1) advanced to the title clash by coming from behind twice and earning a 4-2 win against No. 4 Hingham (14-5-6) last night at the Tsongas Center.
“Resilience. That’s what good teams have to do, and that’s what championship teams have to do,” Eagles coach John Flaherty said. “Credit to every one of those guys in that room. They never quit.”
With the game tied 2-2 in a wild third period, Mike Adamson stepped into a rolling puck and blasted it home off the iron to give the Eagles a 3-2 edge with 6:19 to go.
BC High tied the game 2:35 earlier when a Thomas Kramer wrister found twine on a power play.
Just 52 seconds into the final period, Hingham’s Jake Higgins roofed a wrister just inside the shortside post to give Hingham a 2-1 lead.
The Eagles trailed 1-0 in the second when forward Joseph Kramer fired a curland-drag wrist shot that found the short side to tie the game at 8:51.
The Harbormen opened the scoring 11:05 into the game on a power play when Will Kenney blasted a onetimer past BC High keeper Luke Garrity (11 saves).
Thomas Kramer iced the game with his second, an empty-netter with 1:15 remaining.
Hingham will take on Pope Francis tomorrow in Lowell. The winner will face BC High on Sunday at the Garden.
“This group is a special group,” Flaherty said. “I’m proud of our guys . ... We have a lot of work to do, and we’re not satisfied just to get here.”
Pope Francis 5, St. John’s Prep 1 — The seventhseeded Cardinals received a four-point night from Jon Tavella to eliminate the third-seeded Eagles and advance to the Super Eight semifinals.
“It was one of those games where we got the bounces,” Pope Francis coach Brian Foley said. “We have a talented group of forwards, and everyone is working hard . . . . Good things are happening at the right time.”
The seventh-seeded Cardinals (19-4-3) scored early, as Tavella (two goals, two assists) snuck behind the Prep defense and netted a wrister 2:35 into the game.
“He’s our No. 1 energy guy each game, and today he was flying around and producing,” Foley said.
Just 2:41 later, Trevor Crawford fired one home from the high slot to give Pope a 2-0 advantage.
The Cardinals ran away with it in the second with goals from Makem Demers (goal, two assists) at 5:32, Tavella just 2:10 later, and Brendan Nehmer (goal, assist) on the power play.
Brian Carrabes scored in the third for the Prep (15-54) to break up the shutout bid by freshman goalie Ben Zaramek (24 saves).