If there's one thing Bolton-Coventry-Lyman didn't want to do, it was fall behind early.
That's exactly the situation the Whalers find themselves in, however, after one period of play in the Division III hockey state championship at the Ingalls Rink at Yale University in New Haven on this Saturday.
The Whalers were a man down late in the first period and Rockville-Manchester made them pay for the mistake. Sean Stoneman found Richard Bidwell coming down the center of the ice, slipped a pass to the senior, and Bidwell beat B-C-L goalie Shane Hickey from about 15-feet out to give RMU the 1-0 lead.
B-C-L was the early aggressor but "Man-ville" took control late in the period. B-C-L's Tim Lebreux went down after getting hit in the left thigh but left the ice under his own power. He has come out on the ice to start the second period.