Iona Prep will play its final regular-season game this week and launch straight into Catholic league playoffs, while Section 1 regular-season games extend through this coming Monday. Below is this week’s schedule, submitted results and game coverage.
Friday’s games
Rye edges Suffern 5-4 on three goals in third period
MONSEY — A bad penalty, a bad turnover and a lucky goal combined Friday night to do lift Rye to a 5-4 win over Suffern on Suffern home ice at Sport-O-Rama.
The Garnets, whose forecheck was at times dominating, came from two goals down after one period to knot the score at 2-all heading to the third period.
Rye didn’t seem fazed when Suffern’s Nick Giammatteo put a shot through traffic into the back of the Garnets net just a minute into the third period.
Little more than three minutes later, with Rye pressing offensively and Suffern unable to get the puck out, Connor Dehmer knotted things again, popping a shot up and over Suffern netminder Tyler Grossman.
The game was still anyone’s but Suffern’s ill-timed penalty — a five-minute boarding major in its offensive zone — certainly tilted the ice.
Rye, which beat Suffern 4-2 nine days earlier, had done so by killing off its own five-minute major.
Suffern could not do the same.
Suffern was able to kill off the first three minutes of the penalty but then a bad turnover, coming out from behind the Suffern goal after a Grossman save, gave Finn Draddy the puck little more than a foot or so from the goal line and the sophomore wasted no time in putting it past Grossman, whose chance of stopping the shot were near zero.
The same percentage was in play for Rye’s next score. That came 35 seconds later when Draddy fed Julian Levenson at the point and Levenson’s shot hit teammate Colin Nigro, the puck redirecting past Grossman.
“A gift like that (the five-minute major), you’ve got to make them pay. That was really a pivotal penalty,” Rye coach Peter Thomas said.
What it means
Rye, 14-2-3, has one game left — a non-Section 1 contest vs. rival and neighbor Rye Country Day. It seems likely to enter the Section 1 Division 2 playoffs as the top seed. It won the division last year.
Suffern, the defending state D-I champion, finishes the regular season 13-5-1, having very uncharacteristically dropped three of its final four regular-season games. Where it will be seeded won’t be determined until Tuesday but, despite its recent setbacks, it will be among the favorites in D-I no matter its seed.
Player of the game
Finn Draddy took top individual honors, scoring twice (he also had the goal that tied the score 2-2) and forcing multiple Suffern turnovers. He also had a blocked shot that led to a Rye scoring chance.
“He was a spark for us tonight. He made so many plays happen,” Thomas said.
Game stats
All but the last three goals of the game were at even strength.
Suffern scored its first two goals in the last 12 seconds of the first period. Matt Norum drew first blood, then Sean Tyrrell made it 2-0 with just one second left in the period.
Suffern’s other goal came off Giammatteo’s stick on a low shot with 1:51 to play.
Ryan Draddy netted Rye’s first goal with 7:35 left in the second period.
Levenson had two assists for Rye and Max Niejadlik, Will Winman and Jake Souza each had one.
Rye got excellent defensive play, including from Weinman, who made a tremendous sliding stop of a shot in the second period.
Rye netminder Fernando Mosquera turned aside 16 shots.
Grossman, who got just enough of a couple of high and hard shots to deflect them over the et with his glove, finished with 22 saves.
Kevin Windwer had two assists for the Mounties and Tyrrell, Anthony Ruggiero and Dylan Rice each had one assist.
They said it
Few would likely have picked Rye to beat Suffern twice in a season. But Thomas said, “I felt like we could. I really like the makeup of our team.”
He, in part, cited its “competitive fire” pointing to its ability to come back in games after being behind.
Between the first and second period, he said he told his team it knew it wasn’t going to shut out Suffern and it had to “keep playing the game and attacking.”
“We just know how much talent we have on this team and the sky’s the limit,” Finn Draddy said. “We have the mindset no one can handle us.”
Despite the recent losses, Suffern coach Rob Schelling said his squad had played well.
“We want our best for the playoffs,” he said, adding before playoffs launch Suffern will look at what hasn’t been working that well and will “fine tune things a little.”
More Friday games
CHSAA quarterfinals
Iona Prep wins semifinal series vs. Xaverian two games to none to advance to the CHSAA final.
Iona Prep 6, Xaverian 5 (OT)
— Scott Alessy: 2G, 1A (Scored the game-winning goal in overtime)
— Liam Collins: 1G, 3A
— Joe Doria: 1G, 1A
— Christian Hanna: 1G
— Owen Nates: 1G
— Billy Haggerty: 1A
— Owen Lester: 1A
— Dillon Syskes” 1A
— Tom Caracappa: 1A
— Chayce Turnbull: 13S
X
— Edouard Roess: 2G
— Anthony Russo: 1G, `A
— Charles Lodovico: 1G, 1A
— Elion Aksalic: 1G, 1A
— John Casso: 1A
—Vittorio Marino: 1A
— Luciano Barcia: 1A
— Ethan Riso: 27S
Section 1
Horace Greeley/John Jay-Cross River 6, Mamaroneck 2
HG/JJ-CR
— Brendan Asta: 5G
— Julian Pedreyra: 1G, 1A
— Brody Stogsdill: 3A
— Ryan Marcus: 3A
— Frankie Epstein: 1A
— Freddie Gross: 1A
— Emmett Geller: 30S
Mk
— Svante Toftgaard: 1G
— Bernie Camarda: 1G
— Brady barter: 1A
—Liam Studdert: 1A
— Colin Weinarten: 25S
Thursday’s games
Mount Pleasant 3, White Plains 1
MP
—Declan Curry: 1G
— Cole Nazuruk: 1G
— Jalen Pekkala-Bitterman: 1G
— Dean Dable: 2A
— Timmy Engleman: 40S
WP
— Julian Bystricky: 1G
— Vincent Mignardi: 25S
Wednesday’s games
Clarkstown 2, North Rockland 2 (OT)
— Nick Tiell: 1G
— Brendan Donnary: 1G
— Spencer Diamond: 1A
— Ryan McMahon: 1A
— Jase Schroer: 1A
— Joe Zanlunghi: 1A
— Jeremy Seiff: 25S
NRk
— Vincent Parente: 2G
—Dennis Alessi: 1A
—Noah Hilliard: 1A
— Chris Swander: 19S
CHSAA playoff semifinals: Game 1 of best of 3
Iona Prep 7, Xaverian 2
IP
— Steven Spaziani: 3G, 1A
— Tom Caracappa: 1G, 2A
— Liam Collins: 1G, 1A
— Will Leahy: 1G
— Dillon Sykes: 1G
— Jeff Maldari: 1A
— Joe Doria: 1A
— Nick Kousteris: 1A
— Anthony Papa: 1A
— Scott Alessy: 1A
— Billy Haggerty: 1A
— Chayce Turnbull: 22S
X
— Vittorio Marino: 1G, 1A
— Elion Aklsalik: 1G
— John Casso: 1A
— Sean Giordano: 1A
— Tom Shaffer: 1A
— Ethan Risso: 30S
Tuesday’s games
Rivertown 3, Suffern 2
Riv
— Saxon Frank 1G 1A
— Eli Morrison 1G 1A
—Jack Lepore: 1G
— Aidan Balkin: 2A
— Ryan Vicari: 1A
— Richie Sullivan: 31S
Suf
— Sean Tyrell: 2G
—A nthony Ruggiero: 1A
— Tyler Grossman: 33S
Monday’s games
Iona Prep 7, Fordham Prep 0
— Billy Haggerty: 3G, 1A
— Liam Collins: 1G, 2A
— Justin Tortorell: 1G, 1A (Scored first goal of varsity career)
— Joe Doria: 1G
— Rogan Lester: 1G
— Ryan Nates: 2A
— Scott Alessy: 1A
— Paddy DaRos: 1A
— Chayce Turnbull: 7S
— Owen Fitzgibbons: 1S
FP
— Richard Landy: 7S
White Plains 9, Monroe-Woodbury 4
WP
— Julian Bystricky: 4G, 2A
— Patrick Dooley: 2G, 2A
— Chris LaRosa: 2G, 2A
— Nick Bellantoni: 1G, 2A
— Lennon Stirling: 1G, 1A
— Evan Espin: 2A
— Mason Fisher: 1A
— Jacob Viens: 1A
— Kai Chen: 1A
— Corbyn Pozo: 15S
— Vincent Mignardi: 14S
MW
— Mikey Monda: 2G, 1A
— CJ Henderson: 1G, 1A
— Luke Skarkas: 1G
— Josh Bujno: 2A
Monday, Feb. 9
Northern Highlands HS vs. Suffern at Sport-O-Rama, 3:30 p.m.
Scarsdale vs. North Rockland at Bear Mountain, 4:15 p.m.
Horace Greeley/John Jay-Cross River vs. Pawling at Trinity/Pawling, 7:15 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 10
Pawling vs. Pelham at Ice Hutch, 6:30 p.m.
ETBE/New Ro vs. Rye Town/Harrison at Playland Ice Arena, 8:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 11
Mount Pleasant vs. Scarsdale at EJ Murray Memorial Skating Center, 3:30 p.m.
Fox Lane vs. Newtown (Connecticut) at Danbury, 6 p.m.
North Rockland vs. Clarkstown at Palisades Center Ice Rink, 6:15 p.m.
Mamaroneck vs. Rye at Playland Ice Arena, 7:45 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 12
Horace /John Jay-Cross River vs. Wilton (Connecticut) at Winter Garden Ice Arena, 3 p.m.
ETBE/New Ro vs. Scarsdale at EJ Murray Memorial Skating Center, 4 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 13
ETBE/New Ro vs. Pearl River at Sport-O-Rama, 4 p.m.
BYSNS vs. Carmel at Brewster Ice Arena, 4 p.m.
Clarkstown vs. Scarsdale at EJ Murray Memorial Skating Center, 5 p.m.
Cortlandt vs. Fox Lane at Brewster Ice Arena, 6:15 p.m.
Pelham vs. Rivertown at Westchester Skating Academy, 6:15 p.m.
White Plains vs. Mahopac at Brewster Ice Arena, 8:30 p.m.
Mount Pleasant vs. North Rockland at Sport-O-Rama, 9:15 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 14
Cortlandt vs. Byram Hills at Brewster Ice Arena, 6:45 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 15
Carmel vs. Mahopac at Brewster Ice Arena, 6:30 p.m.
White Plains vs. Stepinac at Ebersole Ice Rink, 7:15 p.m.
Nancy Haggerty covers sports for The Journal News/lohud .
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Rye comes back to beat Suffern 5-4. Ice hockey scoreboard for Feb. 13
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