No. 15 Bishop Feehan rolls on, topples No. 4 Medway

BOURNE — Bishop Feehan punched its ticket to the D2 South Sectional Finals for the first time since 2004 as the Shamrocks pulled off a 2-1 victory over No. 4 Medway (14-4-5) at Gallo Ice Arena on Tuesday.

A.J. Quetta popped in the game-winner at 8:48 of the third period as No. 15 Bishop Feehan (13-5-2) will play for the D2 South title this Saturday, right back at Gallo.

“This was huge for us as it really states a lot for our senior class. For the last three years, we have ratcheted up the schedule every year so every time (our team) caught up to the competition, we gave them harder competition,” said Bishop Feehan head coach Kevin Dunn. “This is a reward for all the hard work they have put in for the last three years.”

The teams exchanged goals in the second period as the Shamrocks found the back of the net first. Kevin Barrera stuffed home his own rebound at 4:54 off the left post and under the right pad of sophomore goalie Evan Monaghan, who was outstanding in net with 27 saves.

On the very next shift,  Bishop Feehan picked up an interference penalty and the Mustangs made them pay. Sean Murphy picked up a rebound out in front of the crease and went right-to-left across the posts for a backhander far side over the extended blocker of goalie Ryan D’Amato.

Murphy’s goal tied things up for Medway at 6:22 of the second but it was the only goal D’Amato would let up and finished with 29 saves in the win.

The third period was all Shamrocks as Quetta took a pass from Peter Carriuolo from behind the net after Carriuolo made an outstanding play to settle the puck along the boards to feed Quetta out in front for the game-winning wrister.

“We work on that every day trying to get the pucks out from behind the net to the guys in the slot, if the guys in the slot stay open, and then just shoot the puck,” added Dunn, who is in his fifth year as head coach. “A lot of times they will just fiddle with it and nothing happens but this time A.J. said ‘Nope’ and was rewarded for it.”

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