SUPER eight HOCKEY: Hingham takes rate

LOWELL — To win video games inside the Super Eight match, you need to be ready from the drop of the p.C. Till the final buzzer sounds.

Third-ranked Hingham did just that, placing the tone early and controlling play during to earn a 3-zero victory over sixth-seeded Austin Prep inside the starting spherical of the Super Eight event closing night time at Tsongas Center in Lowell.

The Harbormen (18-4-1) had their legs moving on the first actual shift and cashed in only forty three-seconds into the contest while sophomore Trevor O’Brien banged home a rebound to make it 1-0.

“It set the pace, it changed into excellent to get beforehand,” said Hingham head instruct Tony Messina. “We knew we weren’t going to get loads of pictures, so you have to capitalize on your possibilities and we did that.”

Late within the 2nd, Hingham junior Joe Sullivan crashed the net difficult, amassed a rolling per cent in the slot and drove it domestic, making it 2-zero with just four seconds at the clock.

“Getting that one on the give up of the second duration became large,” said Messina. “We knew they have been going to come back at us the entire time, we were able to arise our protection and cast off a number of our velocity and hit everything in sight.”

The Harbormen scored once more 1:47 into the 1/3 at the same time as shorthanded, as senior Jacob Clark created a turnover for captain Will Kenney, who walked into the left circle, picked his spot and ripped it five holes to make it three-0.