GreeleyJay Comeback Falls Short versus Rye

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On Friday December 13, GreeleyJay took their combined teams and faced Rye at the Brewster Ice Arena. After getting off to a good start with the first goal, the home team saw the Garnets put in the next four. So it looked like a long night. But the boys did regroup and a game was had.

At 7:10 of the third, James DeNoia of John Jay unleashed and tied the game at five. Still, Rye scored the next two and the evening ended in a very exciting 7-6 loss.

Nonetheless, the action began quickly. Brody Skala found Philip Childs out front, and the Quaker/Wolves were on the board at 15:25

Unfortunately, Rye was not sitting back. The Garnets scored twice in 30 seconds and took a 2-1 lead at 12:46.

Greeley/Jay wasn’t deterred, though. Ryan Marcus and Brandon Foulks made a pair of rushes and kept Rye on their toes.

Ninety seconds later at 8:04, GreeleyJay drew a penalty, and the boys went on the power play. Off the face, Nick D’Ambosio put a shot at the goalie, and on the same sequence, Marcus almost stuffed one in. Not done, DeNoia turned the Rye clear into a coast to coast rush. But his shot was deflected into the corner by Rye goalie CJ Stumpf.

The power play ending, Childs did more of his thing. The centering pass he took from behind the net went wide, and 45 seconds later, the Quaker did a 180 on a shot that just missed too.

Taking note, Marcus went on the turn too. The forward wrapped around the net and his pass out front came to a stop. In wait for a beat, the Rye sticks got there first, and the score held into the second.

Marcus didn’t stop trying either. On a Brody Stogsdill pass, Marcus put on a series of jukes, and with the space, the junior put another tough shot on goal at 13:31.

But Rye wasn’t impressed. Sean Mohr sent a pretty easy shot on goal from the left and JT Martinez’s push aside still left the puck in play. Nico Corvalan got their next, and Peter Boraczek won the scrum.

Up 3-1 at 12:31, the power play would net Rye’s next goal. Called at 6:26, Rye won the face-off and Alex Sabino had the goal at 6:18.

GreeleyJay kept coming anyway. Riley McMahon of John Jay stood all alone out front, and Foulks pass over made easy pickings of Stumpf.

4-2 at 4:31, Dylan Geary would find himself in a similar situation with 48 seconds left in the period. Only on the right at the blue line, the Wolf took a pass from John Jay’s Jack Hartney, and GreeleyJay went into the third down one.

Not hesitating, GreeleyJay forced an icing in the opening seconds and quickly had their first chance. McMahon was able to put a cross ice pass on DeNoia’s stick, but Stumpf had the save.

And more work on the way for the Garnet goalie. Stumpf got a glove and an elbow on Chris Marlatt’s wrist shot and a Marcus screen shot, and at 13:55, the offense put Stumpf up against some serious triangulation. Marcus got the puck up ice, DeNoia took over on the lead pass, and the cross ice pass on target to Geary, the goalie got the save.

Unfortunately, the hard work did not pay off for GreeleyJay. On the other end, the puck came out of the corner, landed on Jack Mazzella’s stick, and he found the net at 11:03.

5-3, the game seemed to be getting away again. So GreeleyJay dug in. Foulks sent into the crease, and Skala won the scrum reset at a one goal difference.

Eight minutes to go, defense turned into offense for the tie. Stogsdill intercepted at mid ice, sent the puck to Geary and DeNoia’s shot made it 5-5.

7:10 remaining, traffic played its part again. Noah Lowenthal this time, his push dribbled over the line, and the Garnets led 6-5 at 4:09.

Even so, Rye had more work to do. GreeleyJay forced a power play with a minute to go, and the goalie pulled on the faceoff, the two man advantage elevated the tension. The puck coming to Mazzella in the corner proved otherwise, though. Barely taking aim, the Garnet beelined the puck into the net, and Childs’ goal with four seconds remaining was not enough.