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...varsity hockey teams scored victories yesterday as the newly-formed J.V. sextet whipped Holy Cross, 9 to 2, at Worcester in its first game of the season, and the Yardling squad defeated the GBI champion, Belmont High, 4 to 1, in a slow game on the new rink...
...brief flurry represented the high mark of Crimson pressure for the evening. Except for a moment in the final period when Job Bray swung the B.C. defense and poked the puck past D'Entremont for the varsity's lone score, the rest of the game belonged to the Eagle sextet...
...little Bobby Babine, the Eagles swarmed over Charlie Flynn and the Crimson net all evening. With Flynn putting on a brilliant performance in the nets, especially in the second and third periods, and Coolidge and Mrkonich body-checking furiously, Cooney Weiland's sextet managed to ward off the Eagles most of the evening. But inability to clear the puck and momentary defensive lapses enabled B.C. to build up a three goal first period lead, then coast for the remainder of the contest...
While the varsity rested Saturday, the Yardling sextet journeyed to Exeter to suffer its first setback in six starts...
...contest is the only non-league game remaining on the Crimson schedule, and as such is more dispensable than the seven league tilts. Seven straight Pentagonal wins, however, will never send the hockey team back out West, but couple those seven with a decisive victory tonight and Weiland's sextet will certainly deserve top consideration by the NCAA selection committee...