Sophomore goaltender Liam Schreiner registered his first varsity shutout in his first varsity game while senior Alec Rockow, Maison Fadale and Patrick Viscardi each scored twice to lead Brockport to a season-opening 11-0 win over Batavia in high school hockey.
“It’s always something I wanted to have happen,” Schreiner said about his shutout. “It’s a dream scenario. Going into the last few minutes I was sweating more than the rest of the game combined, but I tried to stay calm and confident.”
As for the souvenir puck the coaching staff gave him in the locker room, he said “I think I’ll put it on my bookshelf so I can look at it every day.”
Fadale opened the scoring with the only goa, of the first period. He banged in a rebound from a Grady Walden shot at 14:02—his first varsity goal.
Brockport exploded with five goals in the second period.
Defenseman Tyler Martin skated in from the left point and rifled a shot over the glove hand of the goaltender and into the upper right corner just 1:11 into the stanza.
Viscardi netted his first stick side from atop the left faceoff circle after an offensive zone draw with assists to Walden and Koby Dusett at 4:50.
Rockow banged in his own rebound at 9:24 and, less than two minutes later, took a perfect pass in the slot from Andrew Harley for his second goal.
Austin King made it 6-0 Brockport when he pounded in the rebound from a ben Leach shot from the right point at 12:52.
The Blue Devils made it a runaway with five more tallies in the third period. Anthony Volpe knocked in a rebound after Walden’s shot hit the goaltender in the mask and bounced to the slot to make it 7-0.
Fadale scored his second of the game on a perfect redirect of a Rockow pass before Viscardi scored his second with an assist from Peyton Young.
Sophomore Jack Skakuj walked in from the point and found the corner of the net at 13:57 of the third period for a 10-0 lead and senior Cameron Dony scored on the power play from Adam Drexel for the final goal.
Brockport outshot Batavia 59-10 in the contest. The Blue Devils easily won the Division II regular season crown last season before being upset by Aquinas in overtime in the Section V tournament quarterfinals.
“We have a very similar team to last year; deep and we can roll three or four lines with 12 seniors,” Brockport head coach Greg Stahl said. “They have a calm confidence and are very businesslike. I think we will be able to wear teams down this season by playing more lines.”
