The Class D teams in Aroostook County have played two weeks’ worth of games and now Class B Caribou is finally about to get its season underway.
The Vikings kick things off this week — Thursday for the girls and Friday for the boys. They make the trip 13 miles south to the Gehrig T. Johnson Athletic Complex for 7 p.m. contests against the Presque Isle Wildcats.
The Caribou squads will be back on the road Tuesday for contests at Fort Kent before John Bapst comes to town Saturday for the home openers. The girls’ game starts at 1 p.m. and the boys’ game at 3 p.m.
Washburn’s Mackenzie Worcester continued her torrid start. After recording 10 goals in the first two games of the season, Worcester was held without a goal against Van Buren but came through with four more tallies against Hodgdon. The Beaver boys have now won three straight after the season-opening loss to the Panthers.
Limestone-MSSM made its season debut Thursday with home games against Easton. Both the boys and the girls went scoreless in dropping both matches to the Bears. However the Eagle boys redeemed themselves Monday with a dominating 6-1 road win against Wisdom.
Summaries of games played last week are as follows:
Central Aroostook boys 4, Fort Fairfield 3
At Fort Fairfield, the visiting Panthers held on for their second victory behind Taylor Campbell’s goal with 45 seconds remaining in regulation.
CA led 3-1 behind goals by Alex Boulier, Dustin Pryor and Dane Kingsbury, but the hosts fought back as Johnny Theriault and Isaac Cyr scored goals five minutes apart late in the second to tie it.
Central Aroostook girls 1, Fort Fairfield 0
Karli Levesque scored 17:20 into the first half on an assist from Caitlyn Harris for the only goal of the game as the Panthers prevailed at Fort Fairfield last Tuesday.
April Santiago stopped all 12 shots she faced for the shutout in goal for CA.
“The key to this game was the strong play of our defense to stay compact and to make Fort shoot from outside,” said Panther coach Joe Levesque. “Our midfield did a better job playing both ends of the field, giving our offense opportunities to put the ball in the net.”
Washburn girls 3, Van Buren 0
At Van Buren last Wednesday, Joan Overman scored all three goals to propel Washburn to the win. Kristen Sarmiento and Worcester each had an assist for the Beavers.
Grace Braley made two saves on three shots for Washburn, while Courtney Parent had 24 saves on 32 shots for Van Buren.
Washburn 4 boys, Van Buren 1
Noah Caron scored three goals to lead Washburn to victory at Van Buren last Wednesday. McCall Turner added a goal for the Beavers while Noah Farley had two assists and Kenny Irving and Michael Ericson one assist each.
Thomas Lajoie scored in the second half for Van Buren, assisted by Brandon Sytulek.
Easton boys 3, Limestone-MSSM 0
Jordan White and Noah Hanscomb netted first-half goals and Cody Halvorson picked up an insurance goal after intermission as the Bears blanked the Eagles in Limestone Thursday.
Trevor Hathaway recorded an assist in the win and goalkeeper Jake Flewelling stopped 10 of 12 shots.
Dylan Nadeau had 22 saves on 26 shots for Limestone-MSSM, which was making its season debut.
Limestone-MSSM boys 6, Wisdom 1
At St. Agatha Monday, six different Eagle players got into the scoring column as the Eagles improved to 1-1 with a convincing 6-1 victory against Wisdom.
Kicking goals for Limestone, in order and all in the second half, were Ahmed Beshir, Zeb Keith-Hardy, Max Kay, Tyler Simmons, Anthony Fiori and Alex Sprague. Keeper Nadeau blocked seven of nine Wisdom shots.
Kristopher Cyr spoiled an Eagle shutout when he dented the net for the home team with 12:02 remaining in the game. Wisdom netminder Chance Gervais faced 26 Limestone-MSSM shots, stopping 10.
Easton girls 6, Limestone-MSSM 0
At Limestone Thursday, Kylee Carter scored four goals to help the Easton Bears roll past Limestone-MSSM.
Emma Bonner scored Easton’s first goal and Nichole Dudley chipped in with a goal. Taylor Brown added an assist and goalkeeper Blake Bradley finished with seven saves on nine shots.
Goalkeeper Jackie Peers made 34 saves on 43 shots for the Eagles.
Washburn boys 5, Hodgdon 0
At Washburn Friday, Alex Pelletier scored three goals to lead the Beavers past the Hawks. Caron and Andrew Gumprecht each added a goal for Washburn, who improved to 3-1 with the triumph.
It was the first game of the season for the Hawks.
Washburn girls 10, Hodgdon 0
Worcester scored four goals and added an assist to help Washburn stay undefeated in a home game Friday.
Overman added two goals and an assist and Mikayla Churchill, Emmy Churchill, Tyra Shaw and Sarmiento each had goals for the winners. Braley had four saves on five shots in goal.
Hodgdon goalkeeper Jessica Drew made 35 saves.
