St. Mary gets the jump on the puck against Easthampton Saturday at Amelia Park Ice Arena. (Photo by Marc St. Onge)
WESTFIELD – Tanner Hart?s first career hat trick was not enough to overcome five different Eagles players combining for seven goals as Easthampton slipped by St. Mary 7-6 Saturday at Amelia Park.
St. Mary fell behind 2-0 midway through the first period until Hart struck back. The Saints still found themselves trailing 4-2 after Hart’?s second goal, but Jonathan Spear and Reilly Siart scored 16 seconds apart to tie the game 4-all with four minutes left in the second.
Fifty-one seconds later, Easthampton’?s Chris Tenszar scored to put the Eagles back up 5-4. Thirty-two seconds after that goal, Siart was dragged down from behind as he was going in for a shot, and the refs rewarded his hard work with a penalty shot. Siart beat Easthampton goalie Brigitte Goeler-Slough to tie the game back up at 5-all.
In the third, Easthampton struck for two goals before Hart added his third of the game on a power play with just over one minute left. Despite a late flurry, the Saints could not add the equalizer. Spear chipped in four assists in the losing effort, and Shawn Gezotis added two more. The loss drops the team to 3-4 on the season. The team will try to get back on the winning track Friday evening when it faces Turners Falls. – Courtesy of St. Mary Hockey
