Wall Knights: My Site News
Wednesday, December 2Varsity Knights shutout Bucs 9-0
Every coach hopes to start a new season on a winning note, but Wall's first game would be more than just a footnote to that wish. It would be a night in remembrance of a dear friend fallen to illness. Coach Dianora took the mike to honor Coach Tony Restituto and then asked his squad to play with him in mind. Red Bank Regional quickly found the emotional moment was simply going to be too much to handle in losing to Wall 9-0. The Entwistle (2G, 1A) - Gabuzda (1G, 1A) - Stagliano (3A) line struck first 5 minutes in by scoring a shorthanded goal on nifty passing between the three players. Two mins later, the specialty team would tally during a power play on a wrister from freshman defenseman Panico, for his 1st high school goal, on assists from Stags and Gabuzda. And pretty much, the course had been set for the rest of the game as an overwhelmed Bucs squad did their best but simply weren't going to be talented enough. Goals by Entwistle, and O'Donnell (1G, 1A) would close the 1st at 4-0 sealing the victory and leading into a more lackadaisically paced 2nd period. Fitch (1G, 2A) would pot the 2nd's lone goal towards the frame's end on a pretty feed from Zoller giving Wall an insurmountable 5-goal lead. The 3rd period would then see The Knights re-amp and strike for 4 more unanswered goals on shots by Entwistle, O'Keefe, Cohen (shorthanded) and O'Connor garnering assists for Fitch, Bruno and O'Donnell along the way. When it was all said and done, Wall outshot The Bucs 44-11, scored 9 goals with 10 assists, secured their first win of the season by blanking their opponent and helped young netminder Klahre to his 1st win at the high school level. More importantly, The Knights paid a heartfelt respect to their friend Above, who undoubtedly had to be both proud and smiling and surely awaiting the next game.....Next for The Crimson Knights is St. Rose, this Friday, Dec 4th @ 8pm. See you there....;-)
Saturday, November 28
Wall JV succumbs to Ocean Twp varsity....
Wall played Ocean Twp's varsity squad in a game "too late to report" - enough said about this one.......