For Iona Prep of the Catholic High School Athletic Association, the regular-season will wrap up this week. But most Section 1 teams have multiple games left before the playoffs. Below find this week’s schedule, submitted results and game coverage for Feb. 2-8.
Friday’s games
Rivertown 5, Horace Greeley/John Jay-Cross River 4 (OT)
Saxon Frank scored overtime game-winner.
Riv
— Ryan Vicari: 2G, 2A
— Saxon Frank 1G2A (OT Winner)
— Aidan Balkin: 1G, 2A
— Jack Lepore: 1G
— Luka Surguladze: 1A
— Max Montgomery: 1A
— Jack Klatelll: 1A
— Richie Sullivan: 28S
HG/JJ-CR
— Brendan Ast:a 1G, 2A
— Jack Hartney: 1G, 1A
— Freddie Gross: 1G
— Brody Stogsdill: 1G
— Henry Millhon: 1A
— Frankie Epstein: 1A
— Emmet Geller: 34S
Mamaroneck 4, Clarkstown 1
Mk
— Henry Doherty: 2G, 1A
— Derek Tumsuden: 1G
— Brady Barter: 1G
— Bernie Camarda: 1A
— Dimitri Thivaios: 1A
— Kenny Stenson: 19S
Clrk
— Nick Tiell: 1G
— Spencer Diamond: 1A
Scarsdale 9, Pearl River 0
Sc
— Leon Zhou:3G, 1A
— Charley Wolf: 2G
— Charley Starr: 1G, 2A
— Matt Kowalski: 1G, 2A
— Daniel Zhou: 1G, 2A
— Jake Strauss: 1G, 1A (Scored first goal of varsity career.}
— Ryan Camhi: 2A
— Adrian Whang: 1A
— Lucas Kowalski: 1A
— Santi Trelles: 1A
— Annabelle Hasson: 10S (Recorded first shutout in first varsity game.)
PR
— Aiden Keenaghn: 19S
— Deaglan Hegge: 9S
Other scores
Suffern 4, Byram Hills 3
Thursday’s games
White Plains 2, ETBE/New Ro 1 (OT)
Chris LaRosa nets game-winner in overtime.
WP
— Kai Chen: 1G (tied game in third period)
— Chris LaRosa: 1G
— Julian Bystricky: 1A
— Lennon Stirling: 1A
— Jonah Glazman: 1A
— Corbyn Pozo: 26S
ETBE/NRo
— AJ Avitabile: 1G
— JC DiNapoli: 30S
Wednesday’s games
Pelham’s Veteri with 5 goals in a 5-2 win over Scarsdale
YONKERS — Matt Veteri scored all five Pelicans goals in Pelham’s 5-2 win over host Scarsdale at the E.J. Murray Memorial Skating Center and passed 30 goals for the season in the process.
The game was scoreless after one period, despite Pelham’s 13-5 shots-on-goal dvantage.
Veteri quickly changed that, cutting right to left to lose a Raiders defender before scoring on an elevated wrist shot less than a minute into the second period.
The speedy senior forward made it 2-0 moments after he was outright robbed by Scarsdale keeper Buddy Meiselman.
Meiselman came out aggressively at Veteri and went down for the stop, but the puck was partially visible under Meiselman and Veteri and a teammate started digging for it. Moments later, Veteri had it and snapped home the shot.
While Scarsdale, whose only goals both came in the very early stages of power plays, twice cut the Pelham lead to one goal, including at 2-1 in the second period, the Pelham win never really seemed in doubt with sophomore keeper Asher Venugopal making excellent saves and yielding few dangerous rebounds, and Pelham largely controlling play through a dominant forecheck.
What it means
Pelham is 12-4-3 and with two regular-season games remaining next week, seems to be rounding into shape for the playoffs.
Scarsdale looked better than its 8-7 record and will probably not be an early-exit when playoffs roll around. It seemed fueled after each of its scores — after the first, stealing the puck twice and forcing another turnover in less than a minute — but it couldn’t sustain that kind of pressure.
Player of the game
Veteri, of course, was the hands-down choice for player of the game.
His wrister through traffic made it 3-1 in the first minute of the third period.
A good defensive play and breakaway by Reeve Murrell, who also had a terrific game, eventually led to Murrell feeding Veteri in front of the net and Veteri snapping a shot over Meiselman’s glove with 10:15 left in the third period. That expanded the Pelicans’ lead back to two goals at 4-2.
Veteri’s other goal was an empty-netter late in the period.
Game stats
Lucas Kowalski scored Scarsdale’s first power play goal, coming on a too-many-men-on-the-ice call vs. Pelham with the puck ending up by its bench on a line change.
That goal, with the puck flipping up and over Venugopal, came with 7:56 left in the second period and just seven seconds into the penalty.
The Raiders’ other score, cutting the Pelicans lead to 3-2, came with 12:21 left in the their period and just 12 seconds into a Pelican penalty. Santiago Trelles netted that goal off assists from Daniel Zhou and Leo Zhou.
Venugopal, in only his fourth start, had 24 saves. At one point in the third period, he stopped three high-quality chances just seconds apart. Right after that, he made a terrific save on Daniel Zhou and then perhaps an even better one on the rebound try by Leo Zhou.
Meiselman, who, clearly frustrated, got ejected after going after a Pelicans player with 1:30 left (the game was ended at that point, since Scarsdale apparently didn’t have a second goalie dressed), had multiple highlight-reel saves that showed off his athleticism. One saw him make a tough stop near his right post, then fly across to the other side to stop what would have been a sure goal by Jamie Morris. Meisseman left the ice with 29 saves.
Winston Speros and Murrell both had two assist for Pelham and Ian Hearle had one assist.
They said it
Veteri didn’t focus on his own, huge game but what the win meant, indicating it could help springboard his team to more wins going forward.
Pelham coach Marco Spisso praised not just Venugopa but also senior goalie Cam White, who has been mentoring the young keeper.
“That kind of support you don’t see a lot in goalie tandems,” Spisso said. “It shows senior leadership across the board with young, skill players in the lineup.”
Of his team’s nearly relentless and highly-successful forecheck, he quoted assistant coach Wyatt Zuk, saying, “We’re going to hunt pucks.”
More Wednesday games
Clarkstown 13, Rye Town/Harrison 3
Clrk
— Nick Roberto: 2G, 1A
— Brendan Donnary: 2G, 1A
— Nick Tiell: 2G, 1A
— Luke Rosner: 2G
— David Kutepov: 1G, 1A
— Jase Schroerer: 1G, 1A
— Spencer Diamond: 1G, 1A
— Brendon Ekizian: 1G
— Ryan McMahon: 1G
— Noah Levitas: 2A
— Bryce Paynter: 1A
— Kenny Johnston: 1A’
— Austin Dentz: 11S
— Jeremy Seiff: 10S
RTH
— Julian Gahr: 2G, 1A
— Max Kulekofsky: 1G, 2A
— :Luke Schechter: 1A
— Nick Villanova: 39S
Other games
Rye 4, Suffern 2
Rye
— Max Niejadlik: 2G
— Will Niejadlik: 1G
— Collin Nigro: 1G
— Aidan Lynch: 1A
— Finn Draddy: 1A
— Fernando Mosquera: 25S
Suf
— Tynan Cosgrove: 1G
— Sean Tyrrell: 1G
— Kevin Windwer: 2A
— Nick Giammatteo: 1A
— Tyler Grossman: 9S
Tuesday’s games
White Plains 4, Stepinac 3
— Evan Espin: 2G
—L ennon Stirling: 1G, 1A
— Patrick Dooley: 1G
— Kai Chen: 2A
— Chris LaRosa: 1A
— Julian Bystricky: 1A
— Mason Fisher: 1A
— Corbyn Pozo: 28S
Step
— Logan Emmert: 1G, 1A
— Henry Lynch: 1G
— Michael Duffy: 1G
— Ben Cann: 1A
— Jack Bell: 28S
Monday’s games
Girls-only intersectional semifinal
Section 1 East Green Wave 8, Section 1 North Avalanche 1
Section 1 East Green Wave advances to face winner of Section 1 Rockland Rockies vs. Section 2 Adirondack in state regional final.
EGW
— June Kleiner: 4G, 2A
— Penelope Shahar: 1G, 2A
— Lily Brickman: 1G, 1A
— Isabella Zacchino: 1G, 1A
— Emma Virtudes: 1G
— Lila To: 2A
— Akina Brittain: 24S
NA
— Francesca Brucato: 1G
— Hyde Hawkins: 1A
— Grayce Peters: 12S
— Gianna Aiello: 5S
Other games
Pelham 2, ETBE/New Ro 1
Monday, Feb. 2
Scarsdale vs. Monroe-Woodbury at Ice Time Sports Rink, 4 p.m.
Byram Hills vs. Carmel at Brewster Ice Arena, 8:30 p.m.
Bethel HS vs. Pawling at Trinity/Pawling Arena, 8:30 p.m.
White Plains vs. North Rockland at Sport-O-Rama, 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 3
Pawling vs. Suffern at Sport-O-Rama, 3 p.m.
Pearl River vs. Rye Town/Harrison at Playland Ice Arena, 8:45 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 5
Pearl River vs. Mount Pleasant at Westchester Skating Academy 4 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 6
Mahopac vs. Carmel at Brewster Ice Arena, 6:15 p.m.
Pawling vs. Cortlandt at Brewster Ice Arena, 8:30 p.m.
North Rockland vs. Mount Pleasant at Westchester Skating Academy, 8:35 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 7
Mahopac vs. Byram Hills at Brewster Ice Arena, 4 p.m.
Carmel vs. Fox Lane at Brewster Ice Arena, 6:15 p.m.
Clarkstown vs. Rivertown at Playland Ice Arena, 8:10 p.m.
BYSNS vs. Horace Greeley/John Jay-Cross River at Brewster Ice Arena, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 8
Carmel vs. Cortlandt at Brewster Ice Arena, 3:30 p.m.
Nancy Haggerty covers sports for The Journal News/lohud .
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Rivertown, Scarsdale win. See ice hockey scoreboard for Feb. 2-8
Reporting by Nancy Haggerty, Rockland/Westchester Journal News / Rockland/Westchester Journal News
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