Editor’s note: This will be a weekly feature that runs on Sundays taking a look at some of the best plays from games we witnessed with our own eyes from the previous seven days. If you have others you’d like to include, feel free to do so in the comments.
This week’s plays come from a mixture of basketball and hockey games, all of which came down to a key moment when either team had the chance to pull out victory (or in some cases, a tie). So, in order by date:
- Meghan Turner’s third-period goal that gave Bishop Guertin a lead in Monday’s game against Hanover. The teams combined for six goals (three each) in the first period and none in the second before Turner’s goal with 11:33 left in the third. After a turnover at center ice, Turner got in to the Hanover zone alone and got goalie Emily Eickhoff to commit low before flipping the puck over her right shoulder for a 4-3 BG lead. The Cardinals and Marauders ended up skating to a 4-4 tie.
- Mike Mitchell’s two free throws for Milford with 13.8 seconds left in a game at Bedford on Tuesday. Mitchell made a lot of great plays in the third quarter to help the Spartans build a 12-point lead. But with 13.8 seconds left in the game, Milford was only up one – on the road, in front of a raucous crowd – when Mitchell went to the line. He sank both, forcing Bedford to take a 3 just to tie the game. Milford went on to win 50-47.
- Tyler Caron scores from the ice to help Merrimack stay undefeated. The Tomahawks led Kingswood Regional, 4-0, with 12:55 remaining in the second period, and then watched as the Knights battled back and tied the game 34.4 seconds before intermission. Locked in a 4-4 tie, Caron scored the go-ahead goal on a power play with 11:30 left. He finished off the win with 4:25 remaining when the puck caromed awkwardly off the boards right to the front of the net. Kingswood goalie Matt Boucher couldn’t handle the bounce and Caron dove in front to poke the puck past Boucher. Caron’s teammates piled on top of him and Merrimack left with a 6-4 win.
- Dimitri Floras ends the first half of Merrimack’s win over Bishop Guertin with a dunk. It’s fairly uncommon to see a dunk in a high school game in New Hampshire. It’s even more uncommon to see a freshman do it, but Floras showed in Friday night’s game that he’s not an ordinary freshman. With Merrimack up double digits as the first half came to a close, Floras had an uncontested lane to the basket and slammed it home. He added a few more nifty drives in the fourth quarter to help preserve the 58-55 win, but none like his first-half dunk.
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