Boys’ Hockey Defeats White Plains 2-1 in Playoffs

The Raiders celebrate after beating White Plains 2-1 on Thursday to move on in the section one playoffs.

On Thursday, the Scarsdale Raiders ice hockey team played the White Plains Tigers in the first round of the playoffs. The game was played at Murray’s in Yonkers. It was a tight game but the Raiders came out on top 2-1 to advance to the quarterfinals of the section 1 playoffs.

Scarsdale started the game playing not great and the score was 0-0 going into the third period. Scarsdale was out-shooting White Plains 20-6 and certainly getting their scoring opportunities despite the scoreboard not showing it.

Then, Scarsdale had an early man advantage to start the third period. Just after the two minute man advantage expired, Scarsdale sophomore Leon Zhou put one into the back of the net to give the Raiders a 1-0 lead. From this point on, the game was intense, White Plains had opportunities to tie the game up, but Scarsdale goalie Buddy Meiselman stood tall not allowing White Plains to score.

With just under two minutes left in the game, White Plains pulled their goalie and Leon Zhou scored again, this time into the empty net for his second goal of the game giving Scarsdale a 2-0 lead. The game was not done yet as White Plains scored with 25 seconds left to cut the lead to 2-1 but it was too little too late and Scarsdale survived, winning the game 2-1 and moving on to the next round of the playoffs.

The Raiders next playoff game will be this upcoming Monday at 4:15PM against BYSNS* in the quarterfinal round. The game will be played at the Brewster Ice Arena. This will be the fourth year in a row that Scarsdale and BYSNS meet in the playoffs with Scarsdale winning the first two years and BYSNS beating the Raiders in the playoffs last year.

*BYSNS is a combined team with players representing Brewster, Yorktown, Somers and North Salem high schools.