February 19, 2007

Monarchs outscore opponents 16-4 in Foxboro Tourney

Hooksett, NH - The New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs continued to roll taking all three EJHL games on the weekend at the annual Foxboro Stars Tournament. Along the way they earned their first shutout of the year blanking the Boston Harborwolves 5-0, outlasting host Foxboro 5-3, and downing the Green Mountain Glades 6-1.

Game one on the weekend was the first shutout of the year for the Monarchs, a shocking fact seeing they have won 46 games. James Mello (pictured left) earned the shutout win stopping 15 Harborwolves shots. Paul Thompson (UNH) scored two goals and added an assist to pace the offensive attack. Ansel Ivens-Anderson put up three assists and Rence Coassin scored one goal and assisted on another. Also scoring was Jeff Fanning (Bowdoin) and Greg Burke (UNH).

On Saturday the Monarchs would go up 4-1 over the Foxboro Stars, but six penalties in-a-row by the Monarchs would get the Stars back in the game and make it 4-3 with plenty of time remaining. Matt Germain (Providence) would end any hope with an empty net goal. Thompson again would lead all scorers with a 1-3-4 line. Nick DelGallo (Norwich) would pop home the first goal and also add an assist. Pat Knowlton would also play well scoring a goal and adding two helpers. Rence Coassin notched the Monarchs other goal on the power play.

The final game of the weekend started out extremely poor for the Monarchs and if not for some spectacular goaltending by Patrick Galbraith they could have easily been down by a few goals to the Green Mountain Glades. Ironically they would leave the first period up 2-0, regroup in the locker room, and come out firing on all cylinders and walk away with an impressive 6-1 win. Jordan Krusch scored two goals and single tallies came off the stick of Austin Mayer (Providence), Denny Kearney (Yale), Thompson, and Coassin. Galbraith would be strong all day and stop 23of 24 shots he faced and pick up his league leading 19th win of the season.

The Monarchs will play host to the New England Huskies on Wednesday at 2pm. They then travel to U Mass Amherst on Friday for a 1:30pm tilt with the New Jersey Hitmen before closing out the regular season at home against the Junior Bruins Sunday at 2:20pm. They are now 46-5-1 overall and are 37-4-1 in EJHL action.