Boys Lax Wins FAA Title

Well, well, well.  What a finish to the season.  The Wyverns of Kingswood came calling today as Hopkins hosted its first ever Fairchester League tournament championship.  As the game started, the Hilltoppers had a first chance but very quickly Kingswood managed a couple to lead 2-0 after only 4 minutes. That would be the last scoring by the visitors until there were only 4 minutes to go in the contest, though.  The Hopkins defense was unbelievably stout and a number of folks deserve recognition.  Cory Steinberg was his usual strong self in the goal.  Max Pantalena controlled the opponent’s number one attacker for the umpteenth game in a row.  Sophomore defenders Walker Schneider- a team high 9 ground balls- Justin Bower, and Kamsi Nwangwu kept their men in check and defensive midfielders LSM Pat Quinn and Kahdeem Cohens, along with two-way stalwart John Rhatigan, were magnificent.   The longsticks scooped up 26 ground balls between them.  Bennett Amador did some really fine work at the face-off X, winning 6/10 and picking up 8 ground balls, himself.  At the other end of the field, Hopkins had to contend with a variety of zone and junk defenses but managed to score what was needed.  Sasha Possick led the way with 3.  The story this game was about the incredible hard work by all on the field in a tense and extremely hard-fought contest.  This being the case, game balls from the championship went to Quinn and Cohens for their efforts in this and every game this season.  Huge kudos are due to all team members for the year and big, big thanks for the terrific work by assistant coaches Adam Sperling and Darius Bittle-Dockery (H’06, capt).