Hill boys ice hockey makes MAHL championship game
The Hill School boys ice hockey will be playing in the 2019 MAHL Championship game later this week.
In a second tune-up following last week’s semifinal victory over Princeton Day School, the Blues used some timely late-game offense to prevail over Worcester Academy Sunday.
The Hill rode third-period goals to a 3-1 victory, their second of the weekend. Will Schaller and Jack McLaughlin goals in third quarter proved the difference for the Blues (18-10-1), who will face Lawrenceville School on the Larries’ home ice 4 p.m. Wednesday for the league title.
Max Cichanowicz made 17 saves in goal to help the Hill outlast their hosts. It was the Blues’ fourth straight win.
Girls ice hockey
SHADY SIDE AC. 1, HILL SCHOOL 0 >> Scoring with 8:30 left to play, Shady Side Academy edged the Blues to win the WIHLMA championship game at Princeton Day School.
The Hill finished with a season record of 21-9-2.
Wrestling
DISTRICT 3-AAA >> Gavin Richard and J.T. Hogan headed Daniel Boone’s group of medal-winning grapplers in the district’s Section 1 tourhament this past weekend at Governor Mifflin Intermediate School.
Richard and Hogan were champions at 113 and 138, respectively. Richard topped Wilson’s Kelvin Rodriguez in the gold-medal match, 5-3, while Hogan completed his sweep with a first-period pin of Ephrata’s Kayde Alhouse.
The Blazers also saw three wrestlers garner silver medals. Chase Stehman was second at 120, Canton Dolla at 126 and Colby Pyle at 170.
Quinn Foley placed third at 160, pinning Wilson’s Anthony Steinmeyer early in the second period. Daniel Drumheller and Devin Dolla pinned their ways to fifth-place medals, Drumheller dropping Oley Valley’s David Schaeffer in the first period and Dolla putting Reading’s Marlowe Bowen away in the second period.
The Blazers finished fourth in the team standings of the 15-school field, its 162.5 points one behind third-place Exeter. Conestoga Valley emerged as the team champion, topping the runner-up Bulldogs by two points.
Co-ed swimming
EASTERNS >> The Hill School boys and girls teams combined for a sixth-place finish in the team standings of the meet at Franklin & Marshall College.
The teams recorded many personal best times and four more school records broken. Additionally, the combined boys’ and girls’ teams — the boys were eighth, the girls 11th — placed ahead of fellow Mid-Atlantic Prep League entries Peddie and Lawrenceville schools in the 42-school field.
Brigid Donnelly took 12th place in the 100 free with a best time of 53.55, and John Nelligan followed with a seventh place finish for the boys’ 100 free in 45.83.
The 500 free event proved to be a great one for Hill swimming, with Kiersten Dagg breaking the school record with a 5:11.16 and earning 17th place; and Alfonso Mestre breaking his own school record with a 4:26.73 for a third place finish. Hill represented in the 100 Back as well, with Alex Zelinske taking sixth place in a blistering 58.06 and Michael Wong taking 12th place with a new school record of 51.55.
The 400 Free relays finished out the night. The Hill girls’ foursome of Brigid Donnelly, Maddy Lewis, Dagg and Zelinske churned out a time of 3:38.76, bettering their prelim time by a second and taking 11th place. The boys’ relay of Mestre, JooYeob Kim, Michael Schiavone and Nelligan closed out the night breaking the third and final boys’ school relay record with a blistering time of 3:02.99 in a final that saw each relay earn an AllAmerican time.
The Hill’s male divers competed at Germantown Academy and finished as follows: Pat Patterson in 30th place, Philip Kershner in 28th place and relative diving newbie Robert Twombly finished in 17th place.
Additionally, the boys’ 200 free relay time was the fifth fastest in Easterns history.