Hoggers Battle It Out

On Wednesday, boys varsity hockey headed to Kent to face the league’s number one ranked team. There to cheer them on was a large crowd of NMH hockey fans, including a bus full of students. In his later note to the fans, Head Coach Tom Pratt said "I want to thank all those adults and students who went to Kent to support the boys. It meant so much and to out-cheer Kent in their barn was absolutely fantastic.”

Meanwhile, basketball fans were donned their maroon colors for a “red out” in the Endicott College where the boys varsity team was facing MCI.

With such exciting games being played away from campus, teachers Jeff Neill ’97, John Christiansen, Ted DesMaisons, and Dick Peller worked together to post play-by-play updates on the campus email system.

Read on to see how both games played out:

At 4:34 pm, Jeff Neill was reporting that boys hockey was winning by 2-1… with 12:41 left in 2nd period

4:40 pm: NMH hockey up 3-1! 6 minutes left in 2^nd. Goals by Gordon, A. Cangelosi and Birmingham...GO RED!!

5:08 pm: NMH up 3-1 with 15 minutes to play

5:13 pm: Score still 3-1, 10 minutes left. Komm awesome in goal.

5:24 pm: Still 3-1. Kent putting on a lot of pressure.

5:33 pm: Hockey wins! Beats top-ranked Kent 4-1!! (Empty net goal by Woody.) What a win!!! Go Hoggers!

By the end of the game, goalie Branden Komm had stopped 43 out of 44 attempts and had helped propel the team to the semi finals on Friday, March 5, at the Salem Ice Center in Salem, NH.

At 6:30 pm, mathematics teacher John Christiansen started reporting on the scores from the fierce boys varsity basketball game. The score was MCI 26, NMH 17 wiith 3:58 to go in first half, he reported.

Ted DesMaisons then picked up the narrative and, by 6:44 pm, was reporting a “big comeback” with “solid defense” by the NMH team to bring the score to 27-26. Here’s how the rest of the game played out:

7:02 pm: Hoggers lead, 36-34, 15 minutes left

7:08 pm: 43-36 NMH leads, 13 minutes left. Hector Harold big 3

7:14 pm: Hoggers stretch lead to 52-42

7:20 pm: 20 point lead! Hoggers lead 62-42, Hector Harold and Sharkey 3

7:21 pm: just 6:41 left!

7:27 pm: 68-54, 3 minutes left!!!

7:29 pm: MCI making a game of it- 68-59, 2:12 left

7:32 pm: OMG! 68-64, 70 seconds left

7:37 pm: better news- 72-66 with 47 seconds left

And then…

7:45 pm: Hogger Hoops Wins!! Final Score: 76-69!! What a day!!

The NMH boys basketball team, which is ranked fifth nationally, will play eight teams for the title at the Prep School National Championship tournament. The tournament kicks off on Tuesday and NMH will tip it off at 4:00 vs. Notre Dame Prep. All games will take place at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT.