Watch the back-and-forth action before Noah's score.
Video of Noah's game-winning goal plus the action that preceded it including a big-time play at center ice and then a great cross-slot pass by Corey Carmody.
Noah Maercklein scored his second goal of the game at 6:25 of OT sending Blue to the TD North Garden and the state championship.
It was a game to be remembered. The see-saw action and wild scoring swings will be etched in the memories of those who played and witnessed it. The never-say-die Swampscott Big Blue came back. Again and again, first from a third period deficit and then from heart-wrenching goals by the Medway Mustangs. Nunzio Morretti, Noah Maercklein and Corey Carmody accounted for Swampscott's scoring in regulation. Noah netted the game-winner at 6:26 of OT sending Swampscott to the TD Garden for the state championship on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Swampscott will play the winner of the Wachusett vs. Westfield game, to be played Thursday. Stay with Swampscott Patch for complete Big Blue hockey coverage. Check out our Swampscott Facebook Page for a blow-by-…
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12:35 am on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Gino, Mike, JJ and the boys of Big Blue Hockey, cheers to you for using your DDT to take you through the JTT. Believe in each other and bring it home! more ›
Swampscott Will Face Medway in Division III Semifinals Wednesday
Medway beat Pembroke 6-2 Monday night in the Divsion III South title game and will face Swampscott in the Division III semi-finals Wednesday night, 8 p.m. at Chelmsford Forum. Pembroke's two goals broke Medway's playoff shutout skein: the Mustangs, second seed in the South at 15-2-3 on the season, blanked Dover-Sherborn 1-0 and Bishop Feehan 2-0 en route to the title game against 16-seed Pembroke. Pembroke had pulled off the big upset in the 25-team Division III South bracket when they knocked off top-seeded Medfield last week. Swampscott should find some degree of comfort at Chelsmford Forum, as that's the ice where they knocked off top-seeded rival Marblehead last Wednesday in semi-final play. The game was originally scheduled for …
Big Blue plays Medway 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Chelmsford Forum.
Here is an interview with Big Blue hockey Coach Gino Faia after his team claimed the North Div. 3 champs with a dramatic 3-2 win against Bedford on Saturday. Senior Captain Trevor Massey got the first goal. And as time was running out on your Big Blue, senior Captain Chris Carman got the equalizer followed by the shot that brought down the house by junior Nunzio Morretti with just six seconds to go. 1. Patch: What did you tell the kids when you called time-out with (3:14) to go, down 2-1? How did they manage to score and tie the game when Bedford had fallen back in defensive mode? Coach Faia: We called timeout at 3:14 to give the guys we wanted on the ice a rest, basically told them there was plenty of time left and just to stay aggressive…
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Next Stop for Big Blue: The TD Garden
It was big news out of Rome Wednesday when white smoke rose from a Vatican City chimney. There well might have been white smoke seeping out of Chelmsford Forum Wednesday night, and that was more likely from the searing heat generated by two well-matched hockey teams that rocked and walloped until Noah Maercklein notched an overtime goal to give Swampscott a 4-3 win over Medway and a berth in Sunday's State Division III Finals at TD Garden. In a game for the ages, Swampscott saw their 3-2 lead vanish with less than a minute to go and survived a shaky start to the overtime period. But there's a reason they call it "sudden death" overtime, and for Medway — a Division III finalist last year, it was for them the bell tolled. After a scoreless…
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Nunzio Morretti's Goal Sinks Buccaneers, 3-2
Things were starting to look bleak on the Swampscott side, as the clock ticked near the two minute mark and Bedford, up 2-1, intent to smother everything that crossed the blue line. Swampscott had other ideas, though. Turning up the offensive heat with aggessive--one might say desperate--skating, the Blue loosened the Bedford defense, through which Chris Carman found a seam and tied the game with a wrist shot from the slot that beat Bedford goalie Abram Grainger. Overtime seemed the likely destination--and maybe Bedford was feeling good about it. After all, the Buccaneers advanced in the tournament by knocking off top-seeded Lowell in a quarterfinal game that stretched through a 12-minute overtime period and an 8-shot shootout before the …
5:44 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The town is behind you and we're all so proud of you - congratulations! Model team, model players! more ›
Here is video of Swampscott's four scores in Wednesday's historic Big Blue hockey win in the state Div. 3 semis.
Here is video of Swampscott's four scores in Wednesday's historic Big Blue hockey win in the state Div. 3 semis. Big Blue goes for the championship Sunday at 3:30 against Westfield on the TD Garden ice.
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Check out our blow-by-blow Swampscott Patch Facebook chronicle of Swampscott vs. Medway
Here are the posts we put up on Swampscott Patch Facebook as Swampscott hung tough and prevailed in a heart-stopping game Wednesday on the Chelmsford Forum ice. * it was actually a 12-minute OT
See your Big Blue crew make a pile by the goal and slap the glass with their fans.
Thanks to Frank Legere for sharing the video. See your Big Blue ice crew make a pile by the goal and slap the glass with their fans after their 3-2 come-from-behind win today against Bedford in Stoneham.
A Corey Carmody goal in the third period swept Swampscott into the finals of the Div 3 North Sectionals tournament.
Big Blue hockey won and in dramatic fashion upending the Magicians of Marblehead Wednesday in Chelmsford, 4-1. Don't let the score fool you. Two of Swampscott's goals were open netters at game's end. The real drama unfolded on a breakaway with minutes to go in the third period. Corey Carmody scored to make it 2-1. Then he got two more empty netters, including one at about the 5-second mark. The win rockets Swampscott into the Div. 3 North Sectional finals on Saturday vs. Bedford, at 4:30 p.m. in Stoneham. Swampscott advanced to the semis with a convincing 10-1 defeat of St. Joseph Prep last Saturday in Stoneham. Bedford, 9-8-3, the No. 9 seed, advanced to the finals by defeating Shawsheen, 3-1. Bedford made it to the semi-finals by …
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David Sakurai
3:32 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
So happy for Big Blue. Go forward, press on and don't forget this wonderful time in your life, especially your parents and coaches who have devoted so much time. more ›