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Sheehan beats Hand, JBWA lights the lamp in win over Lyman Hall, will meet in SCC/SWC Division 3 finals

Michael Fornabaio | February 27, 2019

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Hand goaltender Eric Dillnerhas eyes on the pck to deny the scoring effort by Sheehan's Luke Festa with Hand defensemen John Gagliardi(2) and Ethn Massey Lending support.
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Hand goaltender Eric Dillnerhas eyes on the pck to deny the scoring effort by Sheehan's Luke Festa with Hand defensemen John Gagliardi(2) and Ethn Massey Lending support.

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Sheehans's Jake Festa and Hand's Tatum Fitzmaurice race for a losse puck during their SCC tournament Sem-Final game Wednesday night in Milford.
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Sheehans's Jake Festa and Hand's Tatum Fitzmaurice race for a losse puck during their SCC tournament Sem-Final game Wednesday night in Milford.

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Hand's Ethan Massey and Sheehan's James Stratton battle for a losse puck during their SCC tournament semi-final game Wednesday nigh in Milford.
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Hand's Ethan Massey and Sheehan's James Stratton battle for a losse puck during their SCC tournament semi-final game Wednesday nigh in Milford.

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Sheehan teammates celebrate a goal by Jake Festa (5) during the SCC tournament semifinal against Hand on Feb. 27.
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Sheehan teammates celebrate a goal by Jake Festa (5) during the SCC tournament semifinal against Hand on Feb. 27.

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Barlow's travis Nussbaum (11) and Lyman Hall's thomas isleib battle for a loose puck during their SCC Semi fina game Wednseday evening.
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Barlow's travis Nussbaum (11) and Lyman Hall's thomas isleib battle for a loose puck during their SCC Semi fina game Wednseday evening.

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Lyman Hall's Connor Satton and Barlow's Andrew Powell battle for aloose puck during the SCC Hockey Semifinal Wednesday night in Milford.
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Lyman Hall's Connor Satton and Barlow's Andrew Powell battle for aloose puck during the SCC Hockey Semifinal Wednesday night in Milford.

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Lyman Hall's Matt Petit (11) tries to get a shot on net with Barlow goaltender Kevin Brennan out of position.
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Lyman Hall's Matt Petit (11) tries to get a shot on net with Barlow goaltender Kevin Brennan out of position.

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Lyman Hall's Connor Satton battles Barlow's Evan Baran to get off a shot on Barlow Goaltender Kevin Brennan.
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Lyman Hall's Connor Satton battles Barlow's Evan Baran to get off a shot on Barlow Goaltender Kevin Brennan.

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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

(C)JOHN H VANACORE, John Vanacore/For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

John Vanacore, John Vanacore/For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

(C)JOHN H VANACORE, John Vanacore/For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

John Vanacore, John Vanacore/For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

(C)JOHN H VANACORE, John Vanacore/For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

(C)JOHN H VANACORE, John Vanacore/For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

John Vanacore, John Vanacore/For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.
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John Vanacore-For Hearst Connecticut Media- February 27 , 2019. Action from game 1one of the SCC Division 3 boys hockey, with the #3 seed Sheehan Titans taking on #2 seed Hand Tigers at Milford Ice Pavilion. The winner moves on to the SCC title game Friday night in West Haven.

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MILFORD — When Hand and Sheehan met four days ago to wind down the regular season, Sheehan goalie Tyler Robertson didn’t like his game much.

Robertson made up for it Wednesday night at Milford Ice Arena in the SCC/SWC semifinals. His 33 saves paced the Titans to a 2-1 win over Hand and a berth in Friday night’s conference final.

“That’s a good feeling. That’s a big win,” Robertson said. “We just lost to these guys (5-3 on Saturday). I didn’t have my best game. I felt that loss a lot. We made up for it tonight.”

Defending-champion Sheehan scored twice in the first period and rode Robertson, who made a couple of stops on the Tigers’ first power play in the closing minutes.

“(Robertson) was incredible. He played a great game,” Hand coach Brian Gonsalves said. “He made some stops he didn’t make Saturday. We took it to them for the most part. He stood on his head and did a great job.”

SCC BOYS HOCKEY TOURNAMENT BRACKETS

Sheehan (15-5-1), the third seed in a tournament that features four of the top five seeds in the upcoming Division III state tournament, will meet fourth-seeded JBWA (13-8) in Friday night’s final at 8 at West Haven’s Bennett Rink. The Knights beat top-seeded LHK 6-2 in the second semifinal.

The flashiest statistic of the second game was Daniel McKiernan’s five goals, but Knights goalie Kevin Brennan was sturdy in net with 26 saves.

“He didn’t make a lot of flashy saves, but he didn’t need to, because he was positioned so well,” JBWA coach Bob Stearns said. “Every game, he’s getting better and better and better.”

Barlow, the first-year co-op’s host, last won a conference title in 2009, the SWC Division 2 tournament.

JBWA led 3-0 on two McKiernan goals and one from Travis Nussbaum. After Kyle Roberts tipped in the first of his two goals to get LHK (14-7) on the board late in the first, McKiernan tucked in a power-play rebound early in the second.

The difference between Wednesday and LHK’s 7-5 regular-season win a week and a half ago, to LHK coach Rich Minnix: “Just laziness, lackadaisical effort. It just wasn’t our night.”

Stearns said the intensity in the Knights’ dressing room was elevated, too, from the regular-season meeting.

“We’ve been building as team all season,” Stearns said, “slowly getting better and better and better and better, and it showed. We played a great game, and we made a good team not play that well. That’s a really quality team over there. They didn’t play badly. We just played well.”

Sheehan carried play for much of Wednesday’s first period before second-seeded Hand (16-4-1) got things going. And even then, as Hand picked up its pace for stretches of the second period and started building an edge in shots, the Titans limited Hand’s chances.

“Our defensive-zone positioning, we were trying to keep them to the outside and limit their shots, limit their puck-movement,” Sheehan coach Dave Festa said.

“They’re a strong team that can move the puck pretty well in the offensive zone. They didn’t really get a lot of clean looks, and I think that was one of the keys to the game.”

And Robertson said his teammates cleared rebounds in the second period that might’ve given the Tigers second-chance goals.

“I don’t know if it was a combination of them, or us, or a little of both, but we definitely struggled the first half of the game to get to the net,” Gonsalves said.

“By the end, by the third, we were able to get there and cause some chaos.”

Joey DeAngelis got Hand’s goal off a left-circle faceoff, a shot that appeared to change direction under Robertson, with 9:22 left.

Jake Festa scored first for Sheehan 1:20 into the game, breaking in off a touch pass from Devin Napoli after Anthony Romano’s stretch pass to the far blue line. Romano scored the second goal with 25.3 seconds left in the first off Napoli’s centering pass.

Sheehan freshman defenseman James Stratton left the game early with a headache, Festa said, stressing, “not a concussion, a headache. We just erred on the side of caution.”

PLAYER OF THE GAME

Sheehan goalie Tyler Robertson came up with big saves all evening.

I KNOW IT LOOKS KEEN

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QUOTABLE

“(This tournament) is a good taste of the atmosphere, a good taste for these boys to get that playoff feel out of way. At the same time, throughout the season we had some games building up to this moment, a couple of the Guilford games and whatnot.” —Hand coach Brian Gonsalves

SHEEHAN 2, HAND 1

SHEEHAN2 0 0—2
HAND0 0 1—1
Records: Sheehan 15-5-1; Hand 16-4-1. Goals: S—Jake Festa, Anthony Romano; H—Joey DeAngelis. Assists: S—Devin Napoli 2, A.Romano, James Stratton; H—Tatum Fitzmaurice. Goalies: S—Tyler Robertson (33 saves); H—Eric Dillner (22). Shots: S—24; H—34.

JBWA 6, LHK 2

JBWA  3 1 2—6
LHK      1 0 1—2
Records: JBWA 13-8; LHK 14-7. Goals: JBWA—Daniel McKiernan 5, Travis Nussbaum; LHK—Kyle Roberts 2. Assists: JBWA—Nussbaum 2, Andrew Powell 2, Teddy Blanchard, Luke Dube, Ryan Lauter; LHK—Ryan Niemiec. Goalies: JBWA—Kevin Brennan (26 saves); LHK—Andrew Sacco (17). Shots: JBWA—23; LHK—28.

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