St. Mary’s boys hockey routs Weymouth

LYNN – The St. Mary’s boys hockey team put a bow on the best regular season in program history on Wednesday night at Connery Rink as 15 different Spartans got on the scoresheet en route to a commanding 10-2 win over Weymouth on senior night.”It’s been a dream season for us,” St. Mary’s coach Mark Lee said. “But it wasn’t by accident. Every one of these kids has given everything they have and it shows that hard work does pay off.”The Spartans will now wait to see their fate at the Super 8 selection meeting on Saturday morning but all indications have placed St. Mary’s as a possible No. 2 seed behind Malden Catholic after completing the season on a 21-game unbeaten streak and 18-1-3 overall record.”I am so proud of all these guys,” Lee said. “They couldn’t have accomplished this without a total team effort.”Win No. 18 was never in doubt after a dominant first-period effort as Bobby Mullins, Connor Parent, Tommy Braswell and Nikko Markham scored to make it 4-0 Spartans in less than nine minutes.The second period would be much of the same as St. Mary’s held a 15-3 shots on net advantage over the Wildcats and increased their lead to 6-0 on tallies from Brendan Mageary and Cam O’Neill.The onslaught continued in the third as defenseman Andrew DiMaiti scored the game’s prettiest goal with an end-to-end rush with the Spartans shorthanded to make it 7-0 before the Wildcats got on the board.Mageary answered 31 seconds later before Parent completed a hat trick with two goals in 13 seconds midway through the period. Jack Leehan capped the scoring for Weymouth with 2:38 left as the Spartans finished up with no losses since opening night versus Malden Catholic.”Playing MC in that first game gave us a lot of confidence. We skated with them for three periods and it showed everyone in that room they could play with the best in the state,” Lee said. “And they’ve built on that from then on.”