BANGOR, Maine — Although they’ve only been together for a couple of games, the Bangor High School line of senior center Johnny Warren between junior left wing Devin Lyshon and junior right wing Nate Lewis certainly looked like they’ve played together a lot longer Monday night.
Warren had a hat trick and an assist and Lewis and Lyshon had a goal and two assists apiece to lead the Bangor High School Rams to a 9-3 Eastern Maine Class A hockey win over Cony at Sawyer Arena.
It was 6-2 Bangor’s fifth straight win.
Lewis, Cam Taylor, Warren and Lyshon staked Bangor to a 4-0 lead in the first period before Cony climbed back into the game with second-period goals 2:44 apart by Keiffer Cantara and Ben Hubert.
But Warren answered 13 seconds later when he swooped on a loose puck in the left circle and wasted little time sweeping it along the ice through the legs of Cony goalie Matt Swan, who had replaced starter Jon Dale in the first period after Bangor’s fourth goal.
Alan Reese expanded the lead 46 seconds later when his pass from behind the net glanced in off Swan’s skate.
Nic Cota’s screened 45-foot slap shot over the glove into the upper short-side corner and Warren’s tip-in of a Lyshon point shot made it 8-2 in the third period before Cony’s Luke Duncklee and Bangor’s Phil Frost closed out the scoring.
Zach Hamilton made 19 saves on 21 shots before being replaced in the third period by Chris Howat, who stopped eight of nine shots.
Dale made five stops on nine shots before Swan turned aside 20 of 25.
Cony (4-6) lost stellar senior defenseman Chris Logan to the stomach flu early in the first period and senior defenseman Seth Johnson suffered a neck injury in the third period.