Team Detail
Kondub Leads Vermont Over Hoosac At Home
Vermont Academy boys' hockey team hosted Hoosac school on Wednesday afternoon at Choukas arena.
The game started slow but ended in solid fashion with Vermont's John Kondub '19 (Monroe, CT) leading the way with a hat trick and an assist to a 6-2 victory.
After a scoreless first period, Vermont struck first blood on the power play when Kondub tipped home a Jeremy Nadeau-Fortin '16 (Granby, Quebec) point shot just 53 seconds in the second period. Three minutes later Kondub and Nadeau-Fortin would hook up again to increase the Wildcats lead to 2-0.
Hoosac's Will Belec would get his team on the scoreboard with 5:40 left in the second period allowing his team to creep back in to the game. The second period would finish with Vermont leading 2-1.
Vermont would again start the scoring early in the third period when Tanner Dalton '16 (Bakersfield, CA) would chip the puck to Kondub in the defensive zone which put him and John Peloso '19 (Townsend, VT) on a two on one break. Kondub would hold the puck as long as he could then feathered a pass to Peloso and he one timed it past Hoosac's Casim Shaikh.
Four minutes later Peloso and Kondub would team up again but in reverse order this time Kondub taking the pass across the crease and he one timed it past Shaikh.
Max McLaughlin '16 (Westmoreland, NH) would score next for Vermont while shorthanded and it was an impressive effort. McLaughlin would backcheck to disrupt Hoosac's offensive attack, started the board with the puck in the neutral zone, chip it by one defender, then toe drag around the next defender and snipe Shaikh five hole.
Hoosac would bounce right back just 33 second later when Benjamin Viens shot the puck off the right post and in. This would be as close as Hoosac would get because 11 second later Taylor Mellon '17 (Park City, UT) would score off the next face off. Connor Morton '16 (Welleseley, MA) would win the face off to Hayden Dalton '17 (Bakersfield, CA) who poked it through to Mellon who chipped it past the Hoosac defenseman and wristed it past Shaikh to give Vermont a 6-2 lead. This goal would drive Shaikh from the game and Hoosac would put in Sam Mix.
Vermont's Josh Bolding '16 (Calgary, Alberta) would backstop the win stopping 19 of 21 shots while the tandem of Shaikh and Mix stopped 21 of 27 shots in the loss.
Vermont (8-13-2 overall, 0-7-1 Lakes Region) will travel to The Gunnery on January 29 and Millbrook School on January 30 for a southern road trip.
After a scoreless first period, Vermont struck first blood on the power play when Kondub tipped home a Jeremy Nadeau-Fortin '16 (Granby, Quebec) point shot just 53 seconds in the second period. Three minutes later Kondub and Nadeau-Fortin would hook up again to increase the Wildcats lead to 2-0.
Hoosac's Will Belec would get his team on the scoreboard with 5:40 left in the second period allowing his team to creep back in to the game. The second period would finish with Vermont leading 2-1.
Vermont would again start the scoring early in the third period when Tanner Dalton '16 (Bakersfield, CA) would chip the puck to Kondub in the defensive zone which put him and John Peloso '19 (Townsend, VT) on a two on one break. Kondub would hold the puck as long as he could then feathered a pass to Peloso and he one timed it past Hoosac's Casim Shaikh.
Four minutes later Peloso and Kondub would team up again but in reverse order this time Kondub taking the pass across the crease and he one timed it past Shaikh.
Max McLaughlin '16 (Westmoreland, NH) would score next for Vermont while shorthanded and it was an impressive effort. McLaughlin would backcheck to disrupt Hoosac's offensive attack, started the board with the puck in the neutral zone, chip it by one defender, then toe drag around the next defender and snipe Shaikh five hole.
Hoosac would bounce right back just 33 second later when Benjamin Viens shot the puck off the right post and in. This would be as close as Hoosac would get because 11 second later Taylor Mellon '17 (Park City, UT) would score off the next face off. Connor Morton '16 (Welleseley, MA) would win the face off to Hayden Dalton '17 (Bakersfield, CA) who poked it through to Mellon who chipped it past the Hoosac defenseman and wristed it past Shaikh to give Vermont a 6-2 lead. This goal would drive Shaikh from the game and Hoosac would put in Sam Mix.
Vermont's Josh Bolding '16 (Calgary, Alberta) would backstop the win stopping 19 of 21 shots while the tandem of Shaikh and Mix stopped 21 of 27 shots in the loss.
Vermont (8-13-2 overall, 0-7-1 Lakes Region) will travel to The Gunnery on January 29 and Millbrook School on January 30 for a southern road trip.
Vermont Academy is a coed college preparatory boarding and day school in southern Vermont, serving grades 9-12 plus a postgraduate year.
