Tidbits from Wednesday's hockey
- The crowds seem to get bigger by the week at the Boys and Girls Club. Wednesday night's St. Joe's-Wahconah nightcap featured the loudest Hennessy League crowd I've heard this season. The Crusader faithful heaped the praise on goalie Andrew Leitch in the third period, with chants of "He's a freshman" and "He's our hero." The latter is a new one; the former is usually less than complimentary when coming from upperclassmen.
- Of course, Leitch earned the praise from his classmates with his third-period glove work Wednesday night. Wahconah has one of the toughest offenses in the league, and it threw everything it had at the St. Joe's net in the third period. Leitch was up for the challenge - and so was the Crusader offense, finding ways to give its goalie some breathing room late.
- By comparison, Taconic's win over Mount Everett was so slowed by penalties that it made St. Joe's-Wahconah feel like a 4-on-4 game.
- Just a quick reminder that Wahconah's girls basketball boosters will dedicate their program to late coach "Boog" Powell at Thursday night's girls basketball game against Monument Mountain. I'm told by Wahconah softball coach/expert hockey scoreboard operator Ken Pease that Spartan coach Tom Kinne, a good friend of Powell's, will speak during the ceremony.
-M.S.