PRINCETON – Chris Mazzella had been held scoreless for five straight periods, following his hat trick a week ago at Gloucester Catholic, but with 14 seconds left on the clock, the Junior forward wasn’t going to let it get to six. Coming out of a timeout and down 2-1, Senior Captain Hunter Garlasco, who had an uneven day in the faceoff dot, won a draw clean, right to Mazzella, who ripped a shot past Princeton Day Goalie Logan Kramsky (43 saves) to tie the game with 12 seconds left.
“Hunter did a great job with that faceoff to win it back and put it right in my wheelhouse,” Mazzella, who scored his team-leading eighth goal, said. “I just tried to get it in on net and lucky enough, it went in.” Rich Greco covered the game for NJ.com.
Watch Chris Mazzella talk about the game tying goal
Sophomore forward Matt Brown kicked off the scoring in the first period with his second goal of the season and Alexei Masanko made 13 saves on 15 shots as the Ironmen earned a hard fought tie. Bosco dominated the latter half of the second period and the entire third, putting 45 shots on net and dominating play in the PDS end before finally breaking through to tie the game. Next up, North Jersey’s best rivalry continues, as the #2 ranked Ironmen take on Bergen Catholic, Friday night 7 pm at the Ice Vault. All those in attendance are encouraged to bring an unwrapped teddy bear to throw on the ice, for the first annual Teddy Bear Toss to be held between the second and third period intermission.
Alexei Masanko discusses how his role has changed from last year to this year
Matt McMorrow ’11 gives the Bosco Hockey Team a tour of the Babson facilities
BOSTON – The team packed their bags, loaded the bus and took off for Boston Friday morning to prepare to take on Massachusetts’ top ranked team, BC High. After the long bus ride, the team stopped at #5 ranked Harvard University for practice and got a tour of the facilities from Men’s Head Coach Ted Donato and his staff and got a chance to speak with 2014 USA Women’s Olympic & current Harvard Women’s Head Coach Katie Stone. Thanks to coaches Donato and Stone for taking time out of their day to give the team an all access tour! The boys were also given an all access tour to Coach Toskos’ alma mater Babson University by former Don Bosco standout and current Babson Freshman forward Matt McMorrow. Special thanks to Matty and Coach Rice for the tour and best of luck as the NCAA DIII #3 ranked Babson Beavers continue their undefeated season. The Ironmen played BC High later that day and suffered their first loss of the season 5-0. Next up the team travels to Princeton Day School on Tuesday for a 5 pm matchup.
HOLLYDELL – The Ironmen continued their impressive start to the season, beating a very tough, physical Gloucester Catholic team 4-3, improving their record to 4-0. Led by Junior standout Chris Mazzella’s hat trick, Bosco held on to garner their fourth win of the season, setting the table for their highly anticipated game against Massachusetts rival BC High, this weekend. CJ Hapward got his second start in net and made 25 saves to seal the victory and keep Bosco’s record unblemished. Ryan McLinksy started the scoring off in the opening period, tallying his first varsity goal. Senior captain’s Hunter Garlasco (3 assists) and Connor Healey (2 assists) along with Junior defenseman Anthony Firriolo (2 assists) led the offensive attack for the Ironmen as they outshot GC 39-28. Next up the Ironmen travel to Boston to face off against perennial power BC High, Saturday 6 pm at Umass Boston.
WAYNE – The Bosco Hockey Team returned to action Sunday night to face a much improved Bishop Eustace team, looking to ride the momentum and continue their winning ways. They did just that, defeating the visitors 5-2. Mickey Burns, Graham Garlasco and Matt Brown (1 goal, 1 assist) all tallied their first varsity goals and CJ Hapward got his first varsity win in net making 10 saves on 12 shots. Michael Scott and Joe Verboys (1 goal, 1 assist) also added goals to round out the scoring. Seiho Jin and Eddie Leitgeb continued their impressive starts to the season each recording an assist and two more players making their varsity debuts, Tyler Nielsen and Toby DiPaolo, each got on the scoresheet with assists. Next up the Ironmen travel south to face Gordon Conference foe, Gloucester Catholic on Monday.
Bosco celebrates Connor Healey’s (3) third period power play goal
NEWARK – The Bosco Hockey Team notched its first road win of the season yesterday, defeating St. Peter’s Prep 7-2 at the Amerihealth Pavilion. After a back and forth scoreless first period, the Ironmen answered with four goals in the second period to take a 4-2 lead at the intermission. Top line forwards, Hunter Garlasco (1 goal, 3 assists) and Chris Mazzella (2 goals, 1 assist) continued to pace the Ironman offense and Seiho Jin notched his second in as many games. Senior defenseman Connor Healey tallied his first two goals of the season and added an assist on Michael Scott’s third period goal. Not to be forgotten, Alexei Masanko made 20 saves for Ironmen as they improved to 2-0. Next up, the Ironmen return home for a Gordon Conference matchup against Bishop Eustace this Sunday 6:15 pm at the Ice Vault.
Read the NJ.com game recap and view the entire box score here.
Don Bosco took to the ice to open its 2014-2015 campaign last Sunday skating to a 5-1 victory over Pope John at the the Ice Vault.
Ironmen celebrate one of their four 3rd period goals.
WAYNE — It took awhile for Don Bosco to get going Saturday night, but once it did, it began firing on all cylinders and looked very much like the state title contender the Ironmen expect to be this winter.
Fueled by four third-period goals, including two each from first-liners Hunter Garlasco and Chris Mazzella, the Ironmen picked up an opening night victory over Pope John, 5-1, in a Gordon Conference hockey game.
JJ Conrad of the Bergen Record covered the game, you can read the rest of his article here.
Next up the Ironmen take on St Peters Prep on Tuesday Dec. 2 4:15 pm at the Prudential Center’s Amerihealth Pavilion.
