Mount Continues To Dominate

Mount St. Charles Academy pinned a 10-1 loss on the Barrington High School Eagles in a Division I hockey game played at the Hunt Family Ice Arena on the campus of the Portsmouth Abbey School Saturday night.

Four different players scored two goals apiece and the Mounties outshot Barrington by a whopping 60-11 margin while improving to 10-0-1 against divisional rivals and 13-0-1 overall this season. The Eagles slipped to 3-7 against league opponents and 3-8 on the year.

Derek Dechene, Zach Samborsky, Trevor Plante and Ryan Berard all found the back of the net twice for the three-time defending Rhode Island state champions, who awed a large crowd in Portsmouth with a devastating display of clockwork hockey. The Mounties skated hard and fast from the opening whistle and dominated the contest in every facet for 45 minutes.

Shamus Maloney and Michael Magerman also tallied goals for the winners.
Despite the final score, the Eagles received solid performances from several players, most notably goaltenders Chris Calitri (28) and Nick Marra (22), who combined to make 50 saves. Alex Corvi netted the only Barrington goal on a superb feed from Collin Fay, giving its supporters their lone chance to celebrate all night.

But the game clearly belonged to MSC. The Mounties skated fluidly, passed sharply and purposefully, and applied relentless pressure on the Eagle defense, forcing the Eagles to commit countless icing infractions to relieve their besieged goalies.

Barrington kept the game scoreless for more than six minutes until MSC netted two goals in a 17-second span midway through the session and earned a 3-0 advantage at the first break. Capitalizing on Eagle defensive lapses, the Mounties put the contest out of reach with a three-goal barrage in a span of merely 26 seconds of the second period and added two more scores later in the period.

“You make a mistake defensively and they’re going to jump all over you,” Barrington Coach Ken Fogarty said of the MSC offense. “They’re very talented, they’re very fast and they don’t miss too many opportunities.”

On one of its few real scoring chances of the night, the Eagles capitalized at the 13:54 mark of the second period. On a 2-on-1 break, Fay calmly kept control of the puck until the last instant, passing to Corvi on his left and Corvi tipped a shot past Mountie netminder Daniel Foster to produce an 8-1 margin after two stops.
Marra had replaced Calitri midway through the second chapter and made several dazzling stops in the final session while also surrendering two more goals.

“I think our team can only get better playing against a team like Mount,” Fogarty said. “What I look for most from our players is effort and today, we may have turned the corner effort-wise.”