Welcome to Sullivan Arena on the
campus of Saint Anselm College
in Manchester, New Hampshire,
bringing you this championship
game today between two
Queen City rivals, Nick,
who look to determine who will
be kings of the ice today.
Arch rivals and
not just in hockey
either-- two schools,
two programs,
very familiar with each other.
And as we talked off
air, it seems fitting
that it comes down
to two Manchester
schools, longtime rivals
in the final again.
It's the Penmen and the Hawks.
The face-off for the
Northeast-10 Championship
is next.
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The Italian stallion.
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And we have [INAUDIBLE].
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I want you guys to
look around the room.
Look at the guy to the left
of you, to the right of you,
and the guy across from you.
That's your brother.
You love him, and
he loves you, OK?
There's nobody else you
want in your foxhole tonight
than the guys in this room, OK?
Because you know every
single guy in this room
is going to give it their all.
It's your time right now, OK?
You hear that?
It's our time right now.
So you go out there,
and you take it.
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It's a packed house here
tonight at Sullivan Arena
for Saint Anselm and
Southern New Hampshire.
Would expect nothing less from
two crosstown city rivals.
And a good portion of Manchester
has turned out for this one.
Hawk supporters mostly stationed
to the right side of the ice.
Southern New Hampshire has
brought a strong contingent
though off to the left.
Yeah.
There were some Penmen
fans out in the parking lot
handing out free T-shirts.
Left to right, this lower bowl
is just about filled and then
the upper balcony as well.
You see some folks starting to
trickle behind the actual rink
down there at ice level.
So this is about
as big as a crowd
as either team
really could hope.
Well, the Hawks took
a hit behind the play.
Dumped off a shot and a score.
It broke off the
glove of Soucy and in.
And the Penmen strike just over
a minute into the first period.
Force the turnover
at center ice.
Fiorino, will it give and go?
And he scores.
Wow.
Fiorino activated.
And he put Southern New
Hampshire in front, 2-0 on the
give and go.
Oh, that's about as beautiful of
a play as I've seen all season.
Boy, oh, boy, the Penmen, they
are on a mission right now.
He's up for the Penmen--
and another score.
Right to goal, Chris Moquin.
The former Saint Anselm Hawk
hands his team a 3-0 deficit.
They have taken a big
bite out of Saint Anselm
here in the first period.
Goals from Efimov-Barakov,
Fiorino, and Moquin
as the Penmen race out to a 3-0
lead here in the Northeast-10
championship game.
Emotional rollercoaster.
I told you guys there's
going to be ups,
and there's going to be downs.
You got to stay calm, OK,
like we've done before.
You've got to be
ready for this period,
because that period
there is behind us, OK?
You guys got to play this game
as it's the second period, OK?
It's this 20-minute game.
Because right now, score
in the second period, 0-0.
He racks it to Ferraro.
Try to feed it into the middle.
Verrier puts it in.
Sean Verrier, once
again, pounces
on the rebound, his second of
the day, a power play goal.
And it's a one-goal
game with 10 minutes
to play in the second period.
Fiorino gets to the middle,
shot, and he scores.
Fiorino with the response
and the Penmen go back up 2.
Two on one here for the Penmen.
Quigley drags.
Soucy comes up with a pad save,
now a chance for a three on two
the other way.
Femia drops in
middle, charging on.
O'Sullivan has shot.
Rebound loose and a score.
It's punched in by Aiello.
End-to-end action and the Hawks
are back within 1 once more.
And that does it for the end
of a crazy second period.
Southern New Hampshire
came in leading 3-0.
They still hold
the lead after two,
but now it's a one-goal game.
20 minutes, like
Coach Ross said,
that's five shifts I
would be trying to--
we need every shift
this game, all right?
We're not [INAUDIBLE].
We're stop and go.
We're banging bodies.
We're preventing that puck to
get in our zone, all right?
Keep it out.
Keep it down there.
Play like you're down a goal.
Play like we need a goal.
We need a goal.
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We've got to focus
on this 20 minutes.
So if you said
before the game, here
you go against one goal lead for
20 minutes of the championship
on the line, every single
one of us would think, yeah.
Yeah.
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So guess what?
You got 1-0.
That period is over.
Whatever happened
in that period,
you got to learn
from it and move on.
Kevin Curley gives to Chisholm.
Drop pass whacked
in by Carignan.
Ciampa will try to eat the puck.
Into the corner it goes.
Ferraro, Carignan throws
it toward the front
and almost snuck through.
Loose in the crease,
kicked to the corner.
10 seconds left.
Moors throws it through a
pile of bodies, nothing there.
Cleared out, bouncing
puck will not matter.
Sticks fly.
Penmen win it in 2019.
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Southern New Hampshire
piles on Kurt Gutting
in the corner as
the Penmen capture
their second ever
Northeast-10 championship,
beating their rival, Saint
Anselm, 4-3 in the final.
And the Penmen, faithful,
rewarded for their efforts
here today.
There's a large crowd of
Southern New Hampshire fans,
celebrate their team,
once again the final 4-3
in favor of Southern
New Hampshire.
George, congratulations.
Your team hangs on
in that third period.
How big of a win is
this for the program?
It's huge.
The group of seniors, what
can you say about them?
Laying it out on the line,
they've earned every bit of it.
They've earned every bit of it.
It's the character of the group.
It's the guys.
You're only as good as the
team you're coaching, the heart
and desire that you have.
And that's what you saw tonight.
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(SINGING) I made it down
the coast in 17 hours,
picking me a bouquet
of dogwood flowers.
And I'm a hoping for Raleigh--
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(SINGING) So rock me,
mama, like a wagon wheel.
Rock me, mama, any way you feel.
Let's go.
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Two claps for [INAUDIBLE].
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