All Practices this year were at Washington Park
Monday 6:30pm - 8pm
Thursday 5:30pm-7pm
No Holt Ram ice hockey team had ever traveled this far in the playoffs. In the most important week of hockey ever played at Holt High School, the Rams defeated favorite Okemos 3-1 on Tuesday, defeated a favored Portage Central Mustang team 2-1 in Double Overtime on Thursday, and had a heartbreaking loss to the favored Saline Hornets 3-2 in Double Overtime on Saturday, March 5. The Rams proved that they could play with any team in Michigan this week, saving their very best hockey for this historic playoff run. In front of a full house at Suburban Ice East Lansing, the Rams fell behind 1-0 in the first period, but as they have demonstrated all season, refused to give in. In the second period, the Rams knotted the score at 1-1 with a Ryan Sanford goal off of a rebound from a Nick Wilkinson shot. The Rams' crowd, including one of the largest student sections of the year, roared with excitement. In an intensely played game, the two teams traded rushes all afternoon. Ruben Medrano was again spectacular in goal, shutting down the Hornets through some of the heaviest traffic seen in front of the goal crease. It was the Rams that broke the tie on a pretty one-timer from Adam Maier who blasted Kevin Maier's cross ice pass into the back of the net to make it 2-1. The score remained 2-1 until less than 3 minutes remained in the game. However, a Hornet forward was able to dip a shoulder going around the outside of a Ram defender and put an outstanding shot on goal, tying the score at 2-2. Memories of the 2 overtime thriller just two nights earlier were right near the surface. In the overtime period, the Rams immediately took the face off and pushed it deep in the Hornet zone. The Hornets tried to rim the puck, but as he has done all season, Kevin Maier used his phenomenal hustle to reach the puck before it went out of the zone and rifled a shot towards the net, where Nick Wilkinson was waiting to redirect the puck--and he did, directly in the net for the seemingly game winning goal. The Rams rushed the ice and the crowd went wild. However, in what will surely be the most controversial call of the playoff season, the referees conferred at mid-ice for several minutes to discuss the goal. The outcome of the meeting resulted in an overturn of the goal... ruling that there was a high stick on the play. While lesser teams would have crumbled, the Rams simply put their hats and gloves back on and fought their hearts out for the next seven minutes, ending the first overtime still tied at 2-2. After just a two minute intermission, the two combatants returned to the ice for the 2nd overtime period. However, with just one minute gone, the Hornets created havoc in front of the net and found a way to put one past the line for the game winning goal.
ATTENTION:
Holt Rams Varsity Hockey
End of Season Banquet
March 22, 2010
Holt 9th Grade Campus
Check out videos from the games at:
http://sites.google.com/site/holthockey/multimedia
The Holt Rams vs. Jackson Lumen Christi game on 2/10/10 was videotaped and produced by the MHSAA Network to be shown on the www.MHSAA.TV website and Comcast Cable. Visit the www.MHSAA.TV website to catch the action. This game will be shown on Comcast Channel 900, Thursday, Feb. 18th, at 8 p.m. Check out your HOLT RAMS in action on TV. Fans interested in purchasing DVDs of the action can go online to MHSAA.TV for more information.
Check out an article in the Lansing State Journal about the team at:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20100305/SPORTS02/3050329/
Congratulations boys on a great and successful season! Make sure you check out the Holt Hockey website at http://sites.google.com/site/holthockey/ If you have any questions or comments, contact the varsity coach, George Maier (gdmaier@att.net).