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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2016

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING THE PONAGANSET HIGH SCHOOL BOYS' HOCKEY TEAM ON

WINNING THE RHODE ISLAND BOYS' STATE DIVISION III CHAMPIONSHIP

     Introduced By: Senators P Fogarty, Kettle, Metts, Jabour, and Felag

     Date Introduced: April 27, 2016

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

     WHEREAS, The Ponaganset Boys' Hockey Team had an outstanding 2015-2016 season,

compiling a sterling 21-1 record and easily winning the Rhode Island Boys' Hockey Division III

Title; and

     WHEREAS, Ponaganset entered the State Tournament seeded first and easily dispatched

Warwick Vets in the first round, sweeping them two games to zero by winning the first game by

the score of 6 to 2, and winning the clinching game by shutting out Warwick Vets by the score of

5 to 0, to reach a title series for the first time in nine years; and

     WHEREAS, Ponaganset faced their arch-rivals, the West Warwick/Exeter/West

Greenwich co-op team for the state championship in games played at Brown University's Meehan

Auditorium. In the first game, a two to nothing victory for Ponaganset, the Chieftains were aided

by the superb play in net by goaltender Curtis Briggs, who was also named the Most Valuable

Player in the series, stopping 34 of the 35 shots he faced. The game winner in game one was

scored by Senior Nathan Morin. In the second game of the series, Ponaganset emerged victorious

by the score of 3 to 1 to sweep the series and win its first boys' hockey championship in sixteen

years; and

     WHEREAS, Winning a state championship in a team sport is an extremely difficult feat

to accomplish and doing so requires that every member of the team give all of themselves to the

team and, at all times, put team needs and goals ahead of individual desires. The 2015-2016

Ponaganset Boys' Hockey Team had those qualities in abundance as they were led all year by

Team Captains Ethan Sederback and Nathan Morin, along with Greg Jason, Braedyn Demarco,

Brett Marceau, Matthew Carlson, Quint Bonin, Drew Briggs, Matthew Mienertz, Ryan Watts,

Nathan Watts, Elijah Wiggill, Nikolaus Goff, Jake Pickersgill, Joshua Soares, Jacob Lincourt,

Joshua Dalessio, Thomas Caine, Dan Richardson, Nicholas Ferrucci, Tate Schaefer, and Curtis

Briggs. The team also benefitted all season from the exemplary coaching provided by Head

Coach, Daniel Morin, and Assistant Coach, David Plante; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

hereby congratulates the Ponaganset Boys' Hockey Team on winning the Rhode Island Boys'

State Division III Championship; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Mr. Daniel Morin, Head Coach, Ponaganset

Boys' Hockey Team.

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