Kings Park/Commack (FR) beat Northport/Huntington Blue (FR) 6-5 in a penalty-heavy freshman game Saturday night at The Rinx – North Rink. Neither team led by more than one goal until Hayden Lee scored from the blue line with 4:16 left in the third period, which held up as the game-winner.
The two teams combined for six power-play goals. Mason Czarnecki opened the scoring with an unassisted man-advantage goal with 7:46 left in the first. Graeme Tumulty answered on the power play with 54 seconds left in the period, with Giovanni DeMarco assisting. DeMarco then put Northport/Huntington Blue ahead 2-1 on a power-play goal of his own with 14:36 left in the second, set up by Andrew Cohen.
Kings Park/Commack responded with two unassisted goals. Nicholas Forcina, wearing No. 72 instead of his usual 77, tied it on the power play. Joseph Tuozzolo, who entered with three points in his only game, gave his team a 3-2 lead with 8:05 left. Caeden Thomas-Martin then scored his first two goals of the season, 26 seconds apart. His power-play goal off a Brendan Disarno feed came with 4:22 left in the second, and he added an unassisted even-strength goal at 3:56 to put Northport/Huntington Blue up 4-3.
The lead did not last into the third. Cody Resseque, who entered with four goals in one game, tied it 4-4 on the power play with 14:14 remaining. Nicholas Pulice then skated in and finished an unassisted goal to make it 5-4. Lee, who had not scored before this game, followed with a hard snapshot from the blue line that pushed the margin to 6-4.
Northport/Huntington Blue kept pressing. Daniel Cesa scored off a Tumulty assist with 1:19 left to cut the deficit to one, and the team pulled Craig Bockelken for an extra attacker in the final minute. Mason McGuire and Kings Park/Commack held on, and McGuire was credited with the win while allowing five goals. Bockelken took the loss after allowing six.
Tumulty and DeMarco each finished with a goal and an assist for Northport/Huntington Blue, which fell to 0-1-0-1. Six different players scored for Kings Park/Commack, which improved to 2-0-0-0 and will try to stay unbeaten in its next game.
