High school hockey rivals, and SWC 2014 championship contenders, NFI and Newtown take the ice for a rematch.

A 2014 SWC Championship thriller took place one year ago between New Fairfield/Immaculate and Newtown, two rival high school teams both drooling for the same goal: a conference championship. Fast-forward to January 14, 2015, and the previous year’s SWC champions, NFI, cruise past Newtown with a 9-3 victory. With Newtown losing a vast majority of seniors after last season, the current Newtown team was led by sophomores and freshman with big skates to fill.

With only 1:23 into the 1st period, and with the fourth shot of the game, number 3, Matthew Briscoe scored the opening goal for New Fairfield/Immaculate. NFI rallied to score a total of three goals in the first period. With an assist from number 24, Andrew Rosenblum- Luke McFadden, number 8, scored NFI’s second goal of the game with 6:14 left in the period. Only moments later, with 5:48 remaining in the opening period, number 17, Parker Evans, put the puck in the net for NFI’s third time, with an assist from Peter Masi, number 18, finishing the period with a score of 3-0 and with a total of 15 shots to Newtown’s 4.

NFI wasn’t stopping there- the scoring only intensified with time. 57 seconds into the 2nd period Andrew Rosenblum scored off a pass from Luke McFadden with the sixteenth shot of the game, and the first shot of the 2nd period. Three minutes later, number 25, Matthew Hooker, scored off the teams twentieth shot with a pass from Parker Evans. With the sixth goal of the game, 7:30 into the 2nd period, Luke McFadden scored his second goal off a laser pass from Andrew Rosenblum. Newtown hasn’t had a shot on goal yet, with only the second half of the period remaining.

8:28 into the 2nd period, Parker Evans scored his second goal of the night off a pass from Matthew Hooker. In the blink of an eye, on four seconds later, and with the team’s thirtieth shot of the game, Peter Masi found the net, shooting of a pass from Luke McFadden.

With Newtown’s first shot of the period, and only the team’s fifth shot of the game, Sean Ferris, number 6, scored Newtown’s first goal of the game with 10:30 into the 2nd period- the score now 8-1. Three minutes later, at 13:16, a phenomenal two on zero breakaway resulting in a stellar pass from Parker Evans to Matthew Hooker flipping the puck into goal with ease. 1:05 later, and 14:22 into the 2nd, with Newtown’s second shot of the period, Sean Ferris scores both his, and Newtown’s, second goal of the game with an assist by number 20, Scott McLean.

The final goal of the game was scored with 1:20 left in the 3rd period. With Newtown’s ninth shot of the game, Scott McLean found the net for Newtown’s third goal. The final score ended with NFI rallying to blowout Newtown 9-3.