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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2016

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING THE PONAGANSET BOYS' HOCKEY TEAM ON WINNING THE

2016 RHODE ISLAND DIVISION III BOYS' HOCKEY TITLE

     Introduced By: Representatives Chippendale, Winfield, Keable, Kennedy, and Abney

     Date Introduced: April 27, 2016

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, The Ponaganset Boys' Hockey Team had an outstanding regular season,

compiling a sterling 17-1 record and outscoring their opposition 106 to 18. The Chieftains

accomplished these feats despite being a young squad playing nine freshman and only having

four seniors. They are a hard-skating and hard-working team that always plays with pride,

passion, and determination and always exhibits the utmost sportsmanship on the ice; and

     WHEREAS, The Chieftains won their first Boys' Hockey State Championship in sixteen

years, thoroughly dominating tournament play as they swept Warwick Vets in the Semifinals, and

swept West Warwick/Exeter-West Greenwich Co-op in the State Championship. Ponaganset was

led in the playoffs by the outstanding play of their sophomore goaltender, Curtis Briggs, who

stopped 34 of 35 shots in the two championship games. They were also ably assisted by the play

of senior Ethan Sederback, their regular season MVP, and by the leadership provided by senior

Nathan Morin, the winner of the Chieftains' Sportsmanship Award; and

     WHEREAS, Winning a State Title in a team sport is a difficult task, one that requires that

every member of the team be willing to put individual desires aside in order to accomplish team

goals. In the 2015-2016 hockey season, the Ponaganset Boys' Hockey Team had those attributes

in abundance, as they were led all season by players Braedyn Demarco, Brett Marceau, Matthew

Carlson, Quint Bonin, Drew Briggs, Matthew Mienertz, Ryan Watts, Nathan Watts, Elijah

Wiggill, Nikolaus Goff, Joshua Soares, Jacob Lincourt, Ethan Sederback, Joshua Dalessio,

Thomas Caine, Dan Richardson, Nathan Morin, Nicholas Ferrucci, Tate Schaefer, and Curtis

Briggs; and

     WHEREAS, Ponaganset also benefited all season from the superb coaching and

leadership provided by Head Coach Daniel Morin, Assistant Coach David Plante, and Volunteer

Coaches Roger Briggs, William Lincourt, and Steve Winsor; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives hereby congratulates the Ponaganset

Boys' Hockey Team on winning the 2016 Rhode Island Division III Boys' Hockey Title; 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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