Bay Port Claims FRCC Hockey Crown
All-Conference Teams Announced
Sunday, January 21. 2024
The FRCC Hockey Tournament concluded on Saturday with top seeded Bay Port meeting second seeded Notre Dame Academy in the championship contest.
The defensive battle saw Bay Port defeat Notre Dame 2-1 to claim the FRCC title. It is the Pirates third FRCC title and their first since the 2015-16 season. Once again Devin Rustlie was stellar between the pipes allowing only 1 goal while turning away 37 shots. Bay Port’s goals, which both came in the 1st period were scored by Konor Tignall and Adrian Vina. The Pirates were able to make those two goals hold up in claiming the victory over the Tritons. Andrew Ostermann scored the lone goal for Notre Dame on a power play in the 3rd period.
Notre Dame Academy came in to the contest as the five time defending FRCC Champion.
De Pere defeated Ashwaubenon in the preliminary game 3-2. Evan Ott started off the scoring for De Pere and Landon Smith ended the scoring netting a goal in the final minutes for the victory. Theodore Matheson scored the other goal for De Pere. Ashwaubenon goal scores were Connor Viau and Charlie Laurent. The conference bylaws state that the preliminary game will pit the loser of the 4 seed vs. 5 seed game against the loser of the 2 seed vs. 3 seed game.
The FRCC plays a single round robin schedule to determine seeds for the conference tournament. Bay Port went 4-0 to claim the top seed, Notre Dame finished 3-1, De Pere 2-2, Ashwaubenon 1-3 and Sheboygan 0-4.
The four and five seeds Ashwaubenon and Sheboygan met on Thursday to determine who would move on to play top seed Bay Port in one semifinal game on Friday night. The underdog Sheboygan won that game 4-3 in overtime. Ashwaubenon took and early two goal lead, but Sheboygan was able to come back and tie the game in regulation and Drake Moberg netted the winning goal in the first overtime period. James Korpi, Gavin Marx and Mason Scharl also recorded goals for Sheboygan. Scoring goals for Ashwaubenon where: Braden Becks, Caden Czyzewski and Jackson Lampereur.
In the first game of Friday’s semifinals, two seed Notre Dame Academy defeated three Seed De Pere 5-0 with Lleyton Jaschke recording the shut-out in goal. James Flanigan broke the ice with the first score of the game coming with only 8 seconds remaining in the 1st period. Joseph Coghlin, Nathan Antti, Ian Noble and Dominick Mader notched the other goals for the Tritons.
The second semi-final saw Bay Port take control early, scoring 7 goals in the 1st period against Sheboygan. Ian Greenwell started it off notching the first goal just 1:35 into the period. Nick Voss notched a shorthanded goal shortly thereafter and it continued to snowball from there. Bay Port’s Noah Brunke garnered a hat trick in the first period and the scoring was rounded out by William Lyons and Cole Molaski.
The Pirates Voss recorded his second goal in the 2nd period and Bay Port rounded out the scoring with Adrian Vina scoring twice in the 3rd period. Bay Port was also stellar on defense allowing only 15 shots on goal by Sheboygan with Devin Rustlie getting the shut-out in goal.
Bay Port’s 10-0 win over Sheboygan set the match-up for the FRCC Championship between the top seeded Pirates and second seeded Notre Dame Academy Tritons.
The Conference Coaches met on Saturday morning to select the all-conference teams. All-conference players were then introduced at the FRCC Tournament in between the preliminary game and the championship game.
Photo courtesy of @BpScores
Devin Rustlie of Bay Port was a unanimous first team selection at goalie and was also selected as the Player of the Year in the Conference.
Mike Buchan of Bay Port was selected as the Coach of the Year in the conference. Buchan was also a co-coach of the year in 22-23.
The remainder of the first team included:
- Charlie Laurent Ashwaubenon SR Defense
- Wyatt Herres Notre Dame Academy JR Defense
- Will Lyons Bay Port JR Forward
- Nick Voss Bay Port SR Forward
- Joseph Coghlin Notre Dame Academy SR Forward
Rustlie and Voss of Bay Port were repeat selections on the First team from last year. Laurent, Lyons, and Coghlin also earned all-conference honors last ear. Laurent and Coghlin as Honorable Mention selections and Lyons as a Second Team selection.
Here is the remainder of the All-Conference selections:
SECOND TEAM
- Noah Brunke Bay Port SR Defense
- Jack Welsing De Pere SR Defense
- Mason Spejcher Bay Port SR Forward
- Evan Ott De Pere JR Forward
- James Flanigan Notre Dame Academy JR Forward
- Keegan Handrick De Pere JR Goalie
HONORABLE MENTION
- Tyler Wempe Bay Port SO Defense
- Casey Coppo De Pere SR Defense
- Bryce Dahl Notre Dame Academy SR Defense
- Nathan Antti Notre Dame Academy JR Defense
- Gaven Marx Sheboygan South SR Defense
- Jackson Lamperuer Ashwaubenon SR Forward
- Jackson Wotruba Ashwaubenon SR Forward
- Caden Czyzeski Ashwaubenon SR Forward
- Konor Tignall Bay Port SR Forward
- Ryan Hilbert Bay Port SR Forward
- Adrian Vlna Bay Port SR Forward
- Teddy Matheson De Pere JR Forward
- Landon Smith De Pere SO Forward
- Otis Berge Sheboygan South SR Forward
- Drake Moberg Sheboygan South SR Forward
- Justin Pintar Ashwaubenon SO Goalie
- Lleyton Jaschke Notre Dame Academy SR Goalie
- Zane Vande Hey Sheboygan South JR Goalie
Patrick Courtney was recognized by the conference as the official of the year.
