PHOTO BY BOB ROCHE
Lynn’s Mike Clougherty stickhandles the puck toward Revere goalie Kenny Uminski in a one-on-one confrontation.
By GORDON VINCENT
LYNN — The Lynn Jets represent all of Lynn’s public high schools, but there was just a little more emphasis on the English High community on Saturday.
The Jets (7-2-2) defeated Revere/Malden, 3-1, at Connery Rink, behind goals from Mike Clougherty, John DiFilippo and Ryan Clark, but the mood was somber after the death on Friday night of English boys basketball coach Mike Carr.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone at English and especially the Carr family,” said Jets coach Joe Conlon. “We may come from different schools, but we’re all part of the same city, and it’s important at a time like this to support each other.”
The Patriots (5-6-1) got their goal from Mike Giordano in the third period. The game was played mostly evenly except for a 5-minute stretch to open the second period, when the Jets scored twice to take a 3-0 lead.
“We gave up a shorthanded goal and a goal on a penalty shot and you can’t do that against a team that plays defense as well as they do, with the goaltender (Jack Stafford) they have,” Revere coach Joe Ciccarello said. “We’ve played against him (Stafford) for four years, so we know by now what we’re up against.”
The first period was scoreless until the 3:28 mark, when Clougherty was awarded a penalty shot after a Revere player jumped on top of the puck in the Patriots’ crease. Clougherty went low with a forehand shot that slipped between the pads of Revere goaltender Kenny Uminski.
The Jets doubled their lead two minutes into the second period, when Travis Ryan slipped a pass from the left faceoff circle to DiFilippo in the slot, and DiFilippo beat Uminski with a low shot that tucked inside the far post, on the goalie’s glove side.
With Lynn on a power play, Clark increased the lead to 3-0 when his shot from the left point went through a screen in front of the net and over Uminski’s glove, at 5:14 of the second period.
“We came out better in the second period,” Conlon said. “Revere is a tough team that always plays with a lot of effort, so it was good to get those goals when we did, because they don’t quit.”
The Patriots had a couple good chances in the last four minutes of the second period. James Pandolfo whipped a wrist shot from the left circle that Stafford knocked aside, and then the Lynn goalie got a shoulder on a shot from Giordano.
Revere continued to press early in the third period, and Giordano scored on a brilliant individual play. He carried the puck from the neutral zone down the left wing, beat a defender, and deked around Stafford before he slipped the puck just inside the right post.
Giordano had another chance on a power play with about five minutes left in the game, but his shot from the slot was steered aside by Stafford. A minute later, Stafford had to stop three quick shots in succession from just outside the crease. The Lynn goalie stopped 14 of the 15 shots he faced during the game.
The Patriots pulled Uminski in the final 90 seconds, but the Jets kept Revere pinned in its own zone for most of the final minute.
Lynn plays Peabody at home on Monday (4), while Revere travels to Gloucester on Wednesday (6).
