Trojans snap skid, start winning streak
The Parkland High School ice hockey team has been on a roll since the calendar turned to 2025. After a Jan. 6 setback, the Trojans snapped a five-gaem skid by winning the next two games and continued that streak on with their next two games in the last week in the Lehigh Valley Scholastic Ice Hockey League.
Parkland scored in a flurry late to defeat Southern Lehigh 10-2 last Monday, Feb. 24, and then followed that up with a close, 4-3 victory over Northampton, both games were at the Bethlehem Municipal Ice Rink.
In the win over the Spartans, the two teams traded goals in the opening period and were tied 1-1 after one, but the Trojans then recorded three goals in the second period and six more in the third, while only allowing one the rest of the way. Bryce Haas got the scoring going with his first of two goals 4:15 into the contest. In the second period, Connor McGinty found the back of the net 1:38 in before Austen Easler, who finished with a hat trick, netted back-to-back goals, as the Trojans went on top 4-1.
The Spartans would get one back 0:13 after the opening whistle of the third period, but Parkland scored six unanswered to finish off the game, with Haas, Easler, Eric Zager, Jackson Yocum, Madison Morris and Brody Phillips all getting in on the action. Nathan Torres made 27 saves in net.
Against the Kids, Parkland scored all four of its goals in the first period as Sawyer Marsteller scored twice within five seconds of each other and Zager also added two goals in the period.
Northampton tallied two goals in the period and one more in the third, but the Trojans defense and Torres, who finished with 41 saves, held on for the victory.