The third-seeded Bulldogs (19-2-2), back in the term device for the third square year, wore down the second-ranked Highlanders with convenient goaltending, a shot-restricting defense and an exploitative offense. Harwood (20-2-1) put just 15 shots on Burr and Burton goaltender Connor Stewart, who missed only Adam Thompsons previous first-period stub that knotted the short at 1. After that, the Bulldogs kept Harwood chances to a reduced while gradatim tightening their tenure on the game, bewitching a 2-1 preside in the newer before sealing Thursdays championship friend with Harford with two Alex Miskovsky goals in the third. Just controlling the play, not panicking, and making some precarious reads on their breakout plays, indeed helped us, said Bulldogs prompt Corey Herrington, explaining in bid goodbye how the Bulldogs stalled Harwoods attack.
For Harwood, beating Burr and Burton when instinct shape would be great enough, but the Highlanders took on the piece of work with a match up of important players under the weather. Most renowned for direct Dave Morses body was elder forward-looking Trey Kiendl, the Highlanders acme scorer. Without him, hes our breakaway speed, said Morse of Kiendl. Then the guys just got back on their heels.
Usually we impede kin with our shoot and hes one of our hasten merchants. It isnt an excuse. When you come here and youve got a little ones team, and hes your leader, theyre very impressible … they gave it the whole kit and caboodle they had. It just alters what you do when a lot of sophomores aspect up to him and hes not in the lineup. The Bulldogs struck first, Ethan Edson beating HUHS goalie Jeff Evans-Mongeon (13 saves) at 10:34 of the first.
The Highlanders responded with Thompson aspiration at 13:52. Burr and Burton regained the bring on at 4:27 of the move as Ben Brownlee circled behind the Harwood goal, moved to the front, looked for a summary privilege and then put the projectile on goal, beating Evans-Mongeon short-side. Miskovsky deposited his two goals in the third, the form into a vacated Harwood plexus and the Bulldogs, express champions in 2007 and runners-up a year ago, had their section in the finals.