Jacob Bryant scored a pair of third-period goals to help the Greenfield High School hockey team to a 3-3 tie with Belchertown Saturday night at Collins-Moylan Arena in Greenfield.
The Green Wave (2-0-1) trailed 2-1 entering the third and a goal by Vaughn Gillen three minutes into the frame gave the visiting Orioles a two-goal cushion.
Greenfield stormed back beginning with 8 minutes, 52 seconds to play as Bryant broke up a play at the Belchertown blue line and skated into the zone and fired a slap shot past Orioles’ goalie Ethan Rajpold to cut the deficit to one. Four minutes later, with 4:50 to play and Greenfield on the power play, Aiden Roache fired a shot from the point that Rajpold made a save on but Bryant pounced on the rebound and buried it to tie the score.
Both teams had chances to win the game in the final five minutes. The Green Wave nearly won the game in the final seconds as Aurel Pydych broke in on Rajpold but the Orioles’ goalie made a glove save to preserve the tie.
They really took it to us in the first period, really, for much of the first two periods,” Greenfield coach Adam Bouchard said. “I was happy to see the Green Wave not fold even though we were down two goals with 12 minutes to play.”
Belchertown scored the only goal of the first period as Matt Pacheco scored from Nathan Ayers at the midway point. Greenfield tied the game 19 seconds into the second period as Doug Hanieski scored from Bryan Baumann, but Belchertown reclaimed the lead in the middle of the period when Cody Lambert scored an unassisted goal.
Both goalies played well. Riley Drew made 17 saves in the Wave net, while Rajpold stopped 20 shots in the Orioles’ goal.
Greenfield hosts Drury Saturday night at 6:30
Wahconah 47, Frontier 40 — Kevin Huban scored 12 of his game-high 15 points in the second half and Wahconah defeated Frontier, 47-40, in an independent boys’ basketball game Saturday night in Dalton.
Wahconah took a three-point lead into the fourth quarter and still led by three with one minute left before pulling away. Frontier coach Ben Barshefsky said that while he was disappointed with the loss, he felt that his team took away plenty of things that will help it down the road.
“It was a physical game and this will pay dividends for us,” he explained. “Wahconah will show us some things we need to work on at both ends of the court.”
Collin Boudreau paced the Frontier offense with 12 points. Carsten Carey added 9 points, and Kalen Evans finished with 8 points.
Tech at Tyngsboro
Brody Wood pinned Evan Haskins from Pelham, N.H. in 48 seconds to finish third at 170 pounds and Franklin Tech finished ninth out of 13 teams at the Tyngsboro Big Red Wrestling Tournament on Saturday.
Wood finished 3-1 on the day. Walker Picard also finished third at 220 pounds and pinned Ben Goldstone from Weston in 50 seconds in the consolation finals. At 120 pounds, Joshua Brunelle was pinned in 47 seconds in the consolation finals by Xavian Natal from Monty Tech and placed fourth.
Athol at Wakefield
Chris Waslaske won each of his matches by pin over the weekend to win the 182-pound bracket and help Athol to a 13th-place finish out of 17 teams at the Wakefield Lisitano Tournament over the weekend.
Caleb Cox went 4-1 on the weekend and finished fifth for the Red Riaders, while Thomas Seamans, Tim Yelle and Riley Reid each won their first-career varsity matches.
Frontier at Longmeadow
Nate Austin earned a 4-2 decision over Longmeadow’s Lucas Olson to win the 195-pound division during the Longmeadow Early Bird Tournament over the weekend.
Jackie Phong dropped a 13-3 decision to Hampden Charter’s Romelo Medina in the championship bout at 285 pounds to finish second in the division, and Ito McMillan was pinned in the second period of the championship at 145 pounds to finish second in that division.
Ovidiu Nichita finished fourth at 120 pounds for the Red Hawks, and Tanner Finch placed sixth at 126 pounds.
Mohawk at Granby
Quinton Romer won a pair of matches at 160 pounds as Mohawk competed in a pair of matches in Granby on Saturday.
Mohawk tied Granby, 42-42, and fell to Duggan Academy, 50-48.
Dylan Wooldridge (170 pounds) and Mason Biagini (182) each won a match via pin and earned a forfeit to finish 2-0 on the weekend. Ethan Bower earned a pin at heavyweight for the Warriors, and Nate Wooldridge (132) and Jaden Moore (145) each won a match via pin at their weight classes.