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The Marblehead High School boys hockey team is having a solid season, rolling along into the second half of the regular season schedule with a record of 8-2-2, and as long as they stay away from teams with Bedford in their names they should continue to succeed.

The Headers lost to Bedford, N.H. on Dec. 23, and then this past Monday afternoon, Jan. 20, the Bedford Buccaneers (8-1-3) from Middlesex County maintained that hex to the tune of 3-1.

Last Wednesday, Jan. 15, the Headers rallied from 3-1 deficit heading into the third period to tie host Winthrop, 3-3 at Larsen Rink.

The Vikings took a 1-0 lead early on in the second period, but the Marblehead boys evened things up on a goal by Eli Feingold. Mike Flaherty and Zach Piersol collected the assists.

After the home team scored twice late in the second, the Headers were looking for a comeback in a very tough place to play. That comeback effort started on a Carter Laramie goal assisted by Colin Hart and Piersol. Marblehead then earned a point, when J.T. Monahan scored an unassisted goal with 2:43 left on the clock. Goalie Peter Santeusanio made 32 saves to help preserve another point in the standings.

Marblehead then went into the third period of Monday afternoons road game in Bedford trailing 2-0, but pulled within one on a score by Piersol with 5:01 left in the third. Chris Locke and Hart had the assists on Harts goal.

Bedford put one into the empty net with just over a minute left to spoil any comeback bid by the Headers.

Co-captain Loch Sheridan said his team did not come out as strong as they should have on Monday afternoon, and now they have to prepare for Thursdays road game at Lowells Tsongas Center against Lowell Catholic. It is the third of six straight road matches, before they return home to Salem States OKeefe Center for a rematch against Winthrop on Saturday, Feb. 8.

"(It) was definitely not our best game. Everyone was flat, and there was no energy on the bench. Bedford was a good, hard-working team, who just beat us to the puck and out-skated us throughout the majority of the game," Sheridan said.

Head Coach Chris Wells echoed his captains sentiments, and the team will be working on being more consistent.

"We have to get back to competing. Its a little disconcerting that weve been inconsistent for some parts of the season. (Monday) we came out flat. We really just didnt have anything," Wells said. "We have to get back to doing the little things like competing. We have to be much more aggressive.

"We have a tough stretch of road games coming up, and we know its not going to get any easier (against Lowell Catholic)," the coach added. "Thursdays a tough game, and then we have Danvers. Theyre playing better, so we have another tough conference game coming up [Saturday night at the Bourque Arena in Beverly at 8:20 p.m.]."

Thursdays game against the Lowell Catholic Crusaders gets underway at 3:30 p.m. in Lowell.

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