After opening the season with an overwhelming victory last week, the Alvirne-Milford Admirals cooled down a bit in their following games, falling in overtime in their second game, then ended the week with a 4-1 loss.
In the team’s first game of the season, the Admirals burst onto the ice with seven goals from four different sources and allowed just one for a 7-1 victory against the Lebanon Raiders.
Alvirne-Milford traveled to Lebanon on Monday, Dec. 15, playing at the Stevens-Mascoma/Campion Rink in West Lebanon, where it took no time at all to get on the board, scoring just four-minutes in, where freshman forward Luke Green scored his first of three with an unassisted goal at 4:23.
The Raiders answered quickly, knotting the game at 1-1 less than two-minutes later, at 6:03.
The Admirals went ahead for good with a man advantage, after a Lebanon interference penalty was called at 6:23.
Just 10-seconds into the power-play, senior defenseman Landen Briand scored with assists going to senior forwards Brandon Ganas and Mason Tomkins.
Ganas put his team up 3-1 before the period ended, scoring an unassisted goal at 9:39.
The Admiral squad opened up their lead in the second period, added three more goals, one on a power-play.
Green added two more goals for his first hat trick of the young season. The first was unassisted at 5:25 and the second, at 13:21, came with help from senior forward Chris Bozza and Briand.
Alvirne-Milford took a 6-1 advantage into the locker room before the buzzer sounded the end of the second period, when junior forward Dylan MacLeod scored at 14:53 on a one-man advantage. The assist went to Briand.
MacLeod and Briand combined for the final goal of the game also.
The team’s new head coach, Kathy Griswold, was encouraged with the results in the first game of the season, saying, “The team played great. They’re putting in a lot of work.”
The Admirals first home game of the season didn’t go quite as well unfortunately, suffering a heartbreaking overtime loss to the Spaulding Red Raiders at the Skate3 Arena in Tyngsborough, Mass.
The Alvirne-Milford team took a 2-0 lead into the third period, where the Raiders battled back with two unanswered goals of their own to force an overtime period.
The Admirals first goal of the night came at 11:58 in the first period, with Green scoring assited by Bozza and sophomore Brandon Hiltz.
Bozza made it 2-0 at 5:36 in the second period, with freshman Jameson Thurrott and MacLeod getting the assists.
In the third, the Raiders defense toughened up and their offense pressed for two for the tie, scoring at 7:28 and at 9:07.
The game-winner came at 4:48 in overtime.
Griswold wasn’t discouraged with the defeat, saying, “It was a tough one tonight, but they battled hard, and I saw a lot of good things from the Admirals tonight on the ice.”
The team ended the year in Dover, where they were only able to get one shot past the Green Wave goal tender and finished the week with a disappointing 4-1 defeat.
The Green Wave took a 3-0 lead with three unanswered goals in the second period.
The Admirals only goal came from Green with 1:33 left in the second period, assisted by Briand.
The Admirals are scheduled to begin the new year at home, on Saturday, Jan. 3, against Bishop Brady – MV, who finished the year at 0-3. The game is set to start at 5:40 p.m., at Skate3 Arena.
