Win Over Wayland Caps C-C's Regular Season

The High School boys’ hockey team closed out the regular season with a bang, defeating Wayland High School 5-0 at the Edge Sports Center on Friday afternoon.

With the win, the Patriots (12-6-2) will now await to learn their fate for the MIAA North Division 1 sectional tournament. According to coach Kevin Harrington, C-C figures to earn either the No. 10 or No. 11 seed, depending on a coin flip with Peabody High School.

Before that, though, the Patriots had to take care of Wayland in the regular-season finale.

“Wayland is a well coached team and they made us do some things we didn’t want to,” Harrington said. “But the kids did a good job of adapting to it.”

Concord-Carlisle opened the game with two goals in the first period. Matt Carroll put the Patriots on the board at 6:39 with assists from J.C. Winslow and Brendan Harrington. At 14:44, the lead grew to 2-0 when Steve Van Siclen scored. He was assisted by Winslow and Mike O’Brien.

The second period was relatively quiet, with C-C adding one goal. This time, it was O’Brien scoring at the 11:42 mark. Winslow picked up his third assist of the night on the play, while Van Siclen added the first of his two.

Van Siclen also helped out on Matt Salemy’s goal at 6:04 of the third period to make it 4-0 Patriots. O’Brien recorded his third point of the game on the play with an assist.

C-C capped the scoring midway through the third period when Mike Van Siclen broke onto the stat sheet at 7:25. Mike Anastos and Ryan Robinson had the assists.

Steven Saul worked in net to record the shutout for the Patriots.

Pairings for the sectional tournaments will be announced on Saturday around mid-day, Harrington said.