Aiden Marchese scored three goals and added an assist, and Kings Park/Commack (JV) opened its season with an 8-2 win over Connetquot/Sayville/BBP (JV) on Monday at The Rinx – South Rink. Kings Park/Commack scored four times in the first period and led 7-0 midway through the second.
Brody Allstadt opened the scoring unassisted with 9:09 left in the first period. Joseph Schwartz followed with an unassisted goal at the 7:35 mark. Marchese then scored twice in 15 seconds late in the period. His first, assisted by Hunter Randazzo and Dylan Sattler with 2:35 left, stood as the game-winner. He scored again unassisted with 2:20 remaining to make it 4-0.
Kings Park/Commack kept attacking in the second period. Schwartz scored his second goal of the game off a feed from Colin Skinner with 14:41 left. Marchese completed his hat trick on the power play 74 seconds later, assisted by Jason Karbot. Samuel Canino added another power-play goal with 7:23 remaining, set up by Karbot and Marchese, and the 7-0 lead brought the game close to the league’s running-clock threshold. Christian Clemens ended the shutout bid with 26 seconds left in the period, finishing an assist from Jack Mooney to make it 7-1.
Justin Mezzasalma scored unassisted with 12:50 left in the third to restore the seven-goal margin at 8-1. Kings Park/Commack later had a five-on-three advantage, but Connetquot/Sayville/BBP broke out for two short-handed breakaways. Joseph Cucciniello stopped both, including a sprawling stop, and earned the win with two goals allowed. Daniel Friers played the full game for Connetquot/Sayville/BBP and took the loss.
Connetquot/Sayville/BBP finished on a positive note. Mooney scored with one second left, assisted by Nicholas Fielding and Tyler Jones. Mooney ended with a goal and an assist, and the crowd stayed engaged through the final seconds.
Kings Park/Commack starts at 1-0-0-0 after getting goals from five different players. Connetquot/Sayville/BBP, at 0-1-0-0, will look to build on its late scoring in its next game.
