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

Winter sports photo list

The following are the games that have been posted on my website www.coldhollowphoto.com. Games with an asterisk qualify for the 99 cent instant download (remember these are unedited images) or the $1.99 4x6s (which are edited before printing). Click here for more details.

Past sports seasons - scroll down for the photos from the current season

Fall 2010

Summer 2010

Spring 2010

Winter 2009-10  - this is LAST YEARS'S LIST - THIS YEAR'S LIST IS BELOW

Youth hockey

Essex at MAHA Squirts, Nov. 21, 2010*

SASA at MAHA Mites (both games), Nov. 21, 2010*

MAHA 14 girls vs. Hartford, Dec. 4, 2010*

Essex vs. St. Albans Squirts, Feb. 21, 2011

Youth basketball

Barre at Enosburg Mini Metro girls, Nov. 28, 2010*

Enosburg mini-Metro boys basketball, Nov. 28, 2010*

Berkshire at Enosburg Middle School girls, Jan. 11, 2010*

High school girls basketball

Colchester at BFA-Fairfax varsity, Dec. 11, 2010*

Milton at BFA-Fairfax, Dec. 18, 2010* 

Burlington at BFA-St. Albans, Dec. 27, 2010

MVU at Enosburg, Dec. 30, 2010*

UCA at Richford, Jan. 5, 2011*

Lyndon at Enosburg, JV 'B' Jan. 14, 2011*

Enosburg at Richford JV, Jan. 14, 2011*

Enosburg at Richford, Varsity, Jan. 14, 2011*

Enosburg at BFA-Fairfax JV, Jan. 19, 2011*

Enosburg at BFA-Fairfax Varsity, Jan. 19, 2011*

Lake Region at Enosburg, Jan. 21, 2011*

Milton at Enosburg, Feb. 1, 2011*

Richford at Enosburg, Feb. 4, 2011*

Lake Region vs. Windsor, D-III semifinal, March 10, 2011

Enosburg vs. Windsor, D-III girls basketball semis, March 10, 2011*

Poultney vs. Arlington D-IV state title, March 12, 2011

Lamoille vs. Mt. Abe, D-II state title game, March, 13, 2011

Lake Region vs. Windsor, Division III state title game, March 13, 2011

High school boys basketball

BFA-St. Albans at Enosburg, Jan. 4, 2011*

Danville at Enosburg, Jan. 8, 2011*

North Country at MVU, Jan. 10, 2011

Milton at BFA-Fairfax, Jan. 13, 2011*

BFA-Fairfax at Richford, Jan. 15, 2011*

Enosburg at Richford, Jan. 18, 2011*

Enosburg at Missisquoi, Jan. 22, 2011*

Lake Region at Enosburg, Feb. 5, 2011*

Vergennes at MVU boys basketball, March 4, 2011

Vergennes at MVU JV boys, March 5, 2011

MMU at BFA-St. Albans boys quarterfinals, March 11, 2011

Twinfield vs. Danville, D-IV title game, March 19, 2011

Missisquoi vs. Fair Haven, D-II state title game, March 20, 2011

Thetford vs. Winooski boys basketball D-3 title game, March 19, 2011

High school girls hockey

MVU at BFA-St. Albans, Dec. 18, 2010*

Hanover at BFA-St. Albans, Dec. Dec. 29, 2010

Burr and Burton at MVU, Jan. 8, 2011*

South Burlington at BFA-St. Albans, Jan. 22, 2011

CVU at BFA-St. Albans, Feb. 9, 2011

U-32 vs. Harwood D-2 state title game, March 14, 2011

BFA-St. Albans vs. Spaulding, D-I girls title game, March 14, 2011

High school boys hockey

South Burlington at MVU, Dec. 15. 2010*

North Country at MVU, Dec. 22, 2010*

Burlington at MVU, Jan. 7, 2011*

Rutland at MVU, Jan. 22, 2011*

North Country at BFA-St. Albans, Jan. 22, 2011

MVU at North Country boys hockey, Jan. 26. 2011*

Essex at MVU boys hockey, Feb. 26, 2011*

BFA-St. Albans vs. CVU, March 9, 2011

Wrestling

Middlebury, Mt. Abraham at Enosburg, Jan. 25, 2011*

Cheerleading

NVACs - Posed and Action

Academy Cheer Challenge

All galleries, except individual posed shots (you must email me for access to those.)

Action photos by team:

AD Lawton, Alumni, St. Albans City 5/6, Essex Middle, Georiga team photo, Stunts, Top Guns and Tumblers, BFA-St. Albans Varsity, BFA-St. Albans JV, Blue Mtn. Middle, Blue Mtn. Minis, BFA-Faifax JVs, Georgia Middle, Richford Varsity, St. Albans City 7/8, St. Albans Youth All-Stars, Vergennes Flyers, Vergennes Minis.

Skiing

Slalom race at Hard'Ack in St. Albans on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011

Events

St. Albans Winter Carnival

BFA wins, MVU falls

Took in a little of the MVU and BFA girls basketball games Friday night.

If you want some details, here's a link to the Free Press capsules on the games.

A couple of thoughts on the games ...

First, at MVU it was nice to see former Enosburg star Christiane Brown, who coaches North Country, which defeated the T-Birds.

Brown said her best returning player is lost for the season with an ACL tear, suffered when she was inadvertently undercut in a preseason game. Another expected contributor is also sidelined, recovering from an ACL tear that occurred in soccer season.

These losses may hamstring the Falcons in the long run this season, but against the T-Birds the ladies from Newport performed well.

It was also nice to meet Jim Fuller, the hard-working sports editor for the Newport Daily Express. Travelling to MVU on a Friday nights shows some real dedication to his craft.

At BFA there was a surprising large crowd given there was hockey at "The Doc" (my new name for the Collins-Perley rink in honor of Henry 'Doc' Tulip).

It's clear from what little I saw - I bailed after the first quarter - I didn't bring a flash and it's near impossible to shoot in the BFA gym without one - that these teams are both struggling to find new identities after lots of recent success.

I spoke to BFA coach Glenn Johnson away from the gym a few days back and he told me it's a different job completely without the likes of Tiffany Johnson, Nicole Lawton and the Garica twins on the court. Still, he said he's enjoying the challenge this season brings and he thinks there's potential for incredible growth as the season progresses.

Speaking of Tiffany, she's getting some playing time - sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much - as a freshman for the national-ranked Franklin Pierce women's basketball team.

At some point, I'll try track down some links to websites to the college teams where I know some Franklin County kids are playing in college. If you know of someone playing in college you'd like me to add to the list, please add a comment to this post - it's gets emailed to me automatically.

That's all I got for now - have another poll to post before I head out to shoot at the start of the Enosburg-MVU boys basketball game and the BFA-Hanover girls hockey game.

Busy weekend on tap

I'm planning to do a double-dip this evening starting in Swanton where the MVU girls basketball team hosts North Country. Then I'm sliding down I-89 (hopefully not literally) to catch the Essex girls at BFA-St. Albans.

These photos will appear on my other site coldhollowphoto.com later this weekend.

Tomorrow, I'm back in Swanton to shoot the first quarter of the Enosburg-MVU boys basketball game and then over to the Collins-Perley rink to cover the final game of the BFA-St. Albans girls hockey tournament.

These photos, some of which will be in Monday's Messenger, might not be uploaded until early next week. Check the winter sports list on my website to find out when they are uploaded.

Speaking of the Collins-Perley rink, the recent renovations there are impressive to be sure.

Still, I can't help but wonder why they couldn't have included a little more money for a better sound system. Granted, I'm listening to the PA system from the wrong side of the rink - near the benches. Maybe the sound is better on the spectator's side.

But from where I sit, the player introductions and goal and penalty announcements sound like they are being done by Charlie Brown's teacher. 'Mwwwhrrhaa, mwwwhrrhaa, rraahhra, rraahhra."

And the national anthem sounds like it's being played by F-16s ... poorly.

But those are minor annoyances, to be sure.

Overall, the place has never looked better.

Now we just need to give the gussied-up old girl a new name.

Might I suggest Henry 'Doc' Tulip rink at the Collins-Perley Sports and Fitness Center.

What better nickname could a rink have than 'The Doc'?

Just my two cents.