Franklin County hockey quarterfinal numbers and notes

The girls hockey state tournament resumes play Tuesday night with a pair games.

The top-seeded BFA-St. Albans girls (15-3-2) host No. 9 CVU (1-19-1) at 5 p.m. at the Collins-Perley rink. NOTE - According to FB friend Maura Hemingway, this game has been switched to 7:30 p.m.

This is the fifth time the schools have met in the playoffs with the Comets (who sport a 27-3 all-time playoff record) have won all four previous meetings by an aggregate score of 20-4.

2012 - BFA 4, CVU 0 - Quarters

2010 - BFA 6, CVU 3 - Semifinals

2009 - BFA 5, CVU 0 - Quarters

2006 - BFA 5, CVU 1 - Semifinals

BFA won the two regular-season meetings this season 7-0 and 9-0.

BFA is 10-0 all-time in semifinal games, 9-2 in semifinals and 8-1 in title games.

This season the Comets are led offensively by Dani Schriener (21 goals, five assists, 26 points), Jade Remillard (9-14-23), Aliza Ellis (5-12-17), Chelsea Ellis (9-7-16) and Morgan Lamos (1-14-15). Shanley Howrigan's save percentage is greater than her goals against average (0.941 goals per game average; 0.950 save percentage). She has four individual shutouts and two shared shutouts.

BFA has outscored opponents 77-19 this season.

At 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, sixth-seeded MVU (10-8-2) goes to take on No. 3 Essex (12-5-3).

The teams have met in the playoffs just once, last season with the Hornets winning 4-3 in the quarterfinals.

MVU tied Essex 3-3 at Essex and lost 2-1 at home. All five goals Essex goals were scored on the powerplay.

MVU has a 11-10 overall playoff record, 0-3 in Division I, but in those three losses, two are by one goal and one is by two.

On Wednesday at 7 p.m., the seventh-seeded BFA- St. Albans boys will travel to Essex to take on the second-seeded 16-2-2 Hornets.

These two teams are the most storied programs in Vermont high school hockey history with a combined 29 state titles.

BFA is the defending champion and will try to improve on a 27-6 all-time mark in Division I quarterfinals. BFA is also seeking it's 70th all-time playoff wins against 25 defeats.

Essex is 22-5 all-time in the quarterinals and has not in that round of the playoffs since 1998.

Essex won the two regular-season meetings 4-1 and 2-1 and the Hornets hold a 10-6 all-time edge in the playoffs.

2010 - BFA 3, Essex 2 - Quarterfinals

2009 - Essex 2, BFA 1 - Semifinals

2006 - Essex 5, BFA 1 - Finals

2003 - BFA 3, Essex 2 - Finals

2002 - Essex 3, BFA 1 - Quarterfinals

2000 - Essex 3, BFA 1 - Semifinals

1993 - Essex 2, BFA 1 - Semifinals

1992 - Essex 3, BFA 2 (OT) - Finals

1991 - BFA 5, Essex 4 (OT) - Semifinals - thanks Tayt Brooks for adding this info: BFA scored three times in the final three minutes to tie the score and went on to beat BHS in the finals, 5-3.

1989 - Essex 4, BFA 1 - Finals

1988 - BFA 1, Essex  (OT) - Quarterfinals

1986 - Essex 7, BFA 3 - Semifinals

1984 - Essex 8, BFA 4 - Finals

1983 - BFA 3, Essex 2 (OT) - Finals

1981 - Essex 5, BFA 3 - Quarterfinals

1978 - BFA 4, Essex 3 - Semifinals