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Middletown Youths Make Final Cut for New England Hockey Festival This Weekend
Eleven Middletown youths have emerged to help field Rhode Island's teams at the New England Yankee Conference Hockey Festival taking place this weekend.
Eleven Middletown youth hockey players are representing Rhode Island at the New England Yankee Conference Festival this weekend in Connecticut.
The area youths join an elite group of players from throughout New England for the festival, organized by USA Hockey as a recruiting ground to identify players for the USA Hockey Development Camps.
In the highly competitive selection process, each player made the final cut after three tryouts where they had to outplay, outlast and outskate 40 to 60 other players in their respective competition levels.
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Congratulations and best of luck to the following Middletown players this weekend!
- Beth Larcom and Katie Simmons are playing for the U12/13 girls' team (ages 12/13 and under).
- Charlotte O'Halloran plays for the girls' U14/15 team.
- Alex Leite plays for the boys' U14 team.
- Jack Murphy, Luke Crimmins and Ben Alofsin play for the boys U13 team.
- Weston Coogan, Peter Dickinson and Sam Milnes play for the U12 team.
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