During the first full week of 2020, ice hockey teams from Fayetteville-Manlius and CBA/Jamesville-DeWitt each played twice in advance of their head-to-head clash Tuesday at Onondaga Nation Arena.
On that same Nedrow ice, the Brothers welcomed Baldwinsville exactly one week earlier, the game going through regulation and overtime without a resolution as it ended 2-2.
Kodi Dotterer netted a breakaway goal short-handed, with Mason McKie also finding the net. But the Bees countered with goals by Matt Carner and Luke Hoskin.
Through the rest of regulation and overtime, neither side could win it. Donovan Watson and Finn Wheeler assisted on CBA/J-D’s goals and Joe Salvador finished with 27 saves, one more than B’ville counterpart Brad O’Neill.
The Brothers played again on Friday, hosting Fulton, and again made it through three periods and an overtime without a decision as it tied the Red Raiders 4-4.
Burns and Wheeler each scored twice to account for CBA/J-D’s goal-scoring, with Burns adding an assist. Dotterer and Bowler had two assists apiece as Watson and Simon Lesser got assists, too.
Only the work of Fulton goaltender Jadon Lee, who had 43 saves, kept his team in it, along with two goals from Derek Schumaker as Pat Galvin and C.J. Watts had the Red Raiders’ other goals.
While that was going on, F-M went to Lysander Arena to take on Liverpool and, led by Spencer Sasenbury and John Manzi, moved back above the .500 mark (5-4) by whipping the Warriors 7-2.
Productive from start to finish, the Hornets leaned plenty on Sasenbury, who set a career mark with five assists and often passed it to Manzi, whose three goals merited a hat trick.
Jackson Denton was also generous, earning three assists. Will Duncanson scored twice as single goals went to Ben Hammond and Riley Carr. Josh Kuchinski and Stephen DiBlasi had single assists.
F-M then hosted reigning state Division I champion Syracuse on Thursday, helping to sell “Wyatt Strong” bracelets in honor of former Cougars player Wyatt Weil, who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.
A strong first period included back-to-back goals by Duncanson and Kuchinski that erased an early 1-0 deficit, with Hammond, Sasenbury, Sean Wyman and Mike Hockenberger earning assisetss.
Syracuse, netting three goals in the second period and another in the third, prevailed 5-2, as Stephen Matro (two goals) and Ryan Durand (one goal, one assist) led the Cougars, overcoming 24 saves from Hornets goalie Jake Johnston.
After it meets CBA/J-D, F-M will go north to face Ontario Bay on Thursday night, while the Brothers are home Friday to face Mohawk Valley.
