Ashar Hockey Rocks The House

Close to 300 fans packed the Ashar gym last night. There were fans cramped on the bleachers, fans squeezed up on the balconies and fans wedged tightly behind the gym's boards like sardines.

We had already reached Division Championship and this was Ashar's shot to to reach the league championships. Our opponent, Hanc Elemetary School Of Long Island.
A loss meaning the elimination of one team from the championship.

The game was well balanced. At the end of the first period Ashar went to the locker rooms down 2-0.

This was a confident Ashar Team though. The feeling in the locker room... "We could win this game".

At the start of the 2nd period the noise level in the gym started to rise. Joe Katz broke the ice with Ashar's first goal. The gym exploded in cheers. Eitan Selter increased the noise level further when he ripped one past HANC's goalie to tie it all up.

The game evenly matched. Both school teams playing their hardest in end to end hockey. The 2nd period ending in a 2-2 tie.

It sounded like Madison Square Garden when the Ashar team came into the gym for the start of the 3rd. Fans cheering. A few minutes into the period the gym's walls actually shook when Donny Fuchs scored to put Ashar into the lead. The fans went wild.

It might have very well been the single greatest sporting high in Ashar's entire 50 year history.

It looked like all momentum was ours.

Give the HANC team all the credit they are due. Ashar had its great comback, and in a display of the competitive balance of these two teams, HANC wanted to show they could do the same.

All the fans were treated to an exciting game that could easily have gone either way. With three unanswered goals in the third though, a quality HANC team came away victorious when the buzzer sounded ending the game. The final 5-3 HANC over Ashar.

The Ashar team wishes the boys of HANC the best of luck in the championships.

As for the Ashar Hockey Program, we still have a few more months of Floor and Ice Hockey fun left.

Next practice..... Friday 2:30pm - 4:00pm....... See you there.