Caz hockey goes 2-0-1, beats liverpool, ithaca

By PHil BlACkWEll

Whatever else happens this season, it’s doubtful the Cazenovia ice hockey team will experience anything as exciting as last Wednesday’s battle with FayettevilleManlius at the SUNY-Morrisville IcePlex.

It would go back and forth all night, both sides producing plenty of end-to-end action, but in the end resolving nothing as the Lakers and Hornets tied 7-7.

Shamus Newcomb got Cazenovia in front early in the first period, only to have F-M counter with three unanswered goals, two of them by Greg Manzi.

Trailing 3-1, the Lakers made its own surge early in the second with four goals from four different players, yet could not contain Manzi, who pulled off a natural hat trick and worked his goal total to five by period’s end.

The Hornets led, 6-5, going to the third, but in continuing the game’s theme the Lakers netted the tying and go-ahead goals, only to see Will Sanzone pull F-M even again late in regulation with his second goal of the night. Neither side was able to convert in OT, Cazenovia seeing seven different players earn its seven goals and Tucker Ives finish the night with 37 saves, two less than Hornets counterpart Chris Finger. Jack Donlin, with three assists, and Forrest Ives, with two assists, led the balanced Lakers attack as they joined Newcomb, Logan Hull,