Bangor starts fast, routs Orono 13 Rams register points in victory

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BANGOR – After being upset by Class B Houlton-Hodgdon 2-1 Saturday night, the Bangor High School Ram hockey team felt it had something to prove Wednesday night.

And the Rams wasted little time doing so.

Bangor scored four first-period goals and received at least a goal or an assist from 13 different players en route to an impressive 8-1 victory over Orono at Sawyer Arena.

The Rams scored four power-play goals in nine chances.

Sophomore left wing Nate Lewis paced Bangor with two goals and an assist and junior defenseman Chad Kelley had three assists. Johnny Warren and Cam Taylor had a goal and an assist apiece and Phil Frost picked up a pair of assists. David Pardilla, Christian Dionne, Joey Seccareccia and Ted Murray had the other goals and sophomore Zac Hamilton turned in a solid 28-save performance.

Chad Evinger scored the Orono goal on the power play with Brandon Paul assisting. David Eugley made 31 saves.

“We took a different approach tonight. Even though Orono is a Class B team, it didn’t matter to us what class they were in. They were coming to our house [and we weren’t going to be denied],” said Dionne. “This win felt great.”

“I wanted to see if we could rebound from that loss and we showed we can,” said Bangor coach Ted Taylor, who credited assistant Chris Tanis for the Rams’ power-play success.

“Everybody was ready tonight,” said Lewis.

Bangor was a step quicker than Orono and won the majority of the loose pucks.

“Coach [Taylor] stressed that we had to win the loose pucks,” said Dionne.

Dionne and Seccareccia scored 54 seconds apart to open the scoring. Lewis and Taylor capped the first-period flurry.

Dionne scored 6:03 into the game as he followed Warren into the offensive zone and when Warren lost the puck, Dionne skated onto it and snapped a low wrister from the middle of the slot that beat Orono goalie David Eugley to the glove side.

“I just threw it at the net. I think the goalie was screened,” said Dionne.

Seccareccia and linemates Frost and Lewis teamed up for the next goal with an impressive sustained forecheck.

Seccareccia got loose between the faceoff circles and beat Eugley with a wrister to the glove side off a Frost pass.

“I thought that would be a good place to put the shot,” said Seccareccia.

Lewis converted a two-on-one with Seccareccia. He looked over as if he were going to pass to Seccareccia and when Eugley came off the near post a tad early to play the potential pass, Lewis tucked it short side.

Taylor made it 4-0 with a wrister from the left circle off Eugley’s blocker.

Murray and Warren cemented the win in the second period. Murray floated a screened wrister from the left point into the short-side corner and Warren roofed a rebound while being knocked to the ice.

Evinger ruined Hamilton’s shutout bid with a screened snap shot from the top of the left circle before Pardilla and Lewis capped the scoring.

“If we don’t work hard, we aren’t a very good team,” said Orono coach Greg Hirsch. “We had no intensity tonight. Bangor came out flying and there was nothing we could do about it. Our defensive zone coverage was embarrassing.”

RAMS 8, RED RIOTS 1

Orono (1-1) 0 0 1 – 1

Bangor (1-1) 4 2 2 – 8

First period – 1. Ban, Dionne (Warren), 6:03 (pp); 2. Ban, Seccareccia (Frost, Lewis), 6:57; 3. Ban, Lewis (C. Kelley), 9:34 (pp); 4. Ban, Taylor (George, King), 13:52. Penalties: Or, Evinger, slashing, 1:47; Or, Doing, holding, 5:28; Or, T. Francis, contact to head roughing, 8:32; Ban, Farnham, interference, 10:43.

Second period – 5. Ban, Murray (Frost), 12:43 (pp); 6. Ban, Warren (C. Kelley, Taylor), 14:17. Penalties: Ban, Lewis, tripping, 1:03; Or, Cloutier, tripping, 2:00; Ban, Warren, charging, 6:21; Ban, Murray, contact to head elbowing, 8:44; Or, Perry, hitting from behind (served by Brissette) and 10-min. misconduct, 11:46.

Third period – 7. Or, Evinger (Paul), 4:42 (pp); 8. Ban, Pardilla (Quirk, Reese), 9:23; 9. Ban, Lewis (C. Kelley), 13:36 (pp). Penalties: Ban, Farnham, charging, 2:48; Or, Higgins, high-sticking, 4:49; Ban, C. Kelley, hooking, 10:09; Or, Evinger, 5-min. major for contact to head roughing, 10:56; Or, Dimoulas, tripping, 13:05; Or, Cloutier, interference, 14:10.

Shots on goal: Orono 10-9-10-29; Bangor 13-12-14-39

Goaltenders: Orono, Eugley (39 shots-31 saves); Bangor, Hamilton (29-28)

Power-play opportunities: Orono 1 of 6, Bangor 4 of 9

Attendance: 200 (est.)