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Ice Devils skate by Oswego 6-1

By Timothy Walton

The Ice Devils failed to make it into the championship game of their David M. McCarthy Memorial Tournament but that didn't stop them from playing full speed.

In the consolation game, Batavia's Phil Boyd put the Devils (3-3) onto the score board early as he recorded his first career high school goal on an unassisted play to start off the Batavia scoring drive. Junior forward Tim Finnell added Batavia's second goal halfway through the period on a play set up by junior defenseman Trevor Powers.

The Ice Devils weren't going to let down there. Senior forward Corey Kocent took advantage of a Batavia 5-on-3 powerplay by firing a rocket slapshot from the point to give his team the three goal lead. As the powerplay continued with Oswego skating a man down, Will Mulcahy made it a complete success by scoring again just seconds later. Finnell and Conor Holvey got credit for the assists on both goals.

Sophomore defensemen Blake Polito registered his first career goal just 1:30 seconds later to put the Devils up 5-0 and continue the scoring streak.

With under eight minutes remaining in the game, Oswego forward Tyler Grimshaw, took away the Brandon Corcoran potential shut-out by scoring Oswego's only goal of the game on the powerplay.

Freshman Nate Palmer decided it was his time to join Polito and Boyd and score his first career high school goal as well, as he netted Batavia's sixth goal to cap off the score at 6-1.

Batavia got to the consolation after being defeated by Notre Dame Friday by a score of 4-1. Oswego was defeated by Fronteir out of Section 6 by a score of 10-2.

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