Boston, MA — Playing at the Walter Brown Arena at Boston University last night, Wachusett impressed once again, dominating Brookline 8-2 to upset the Warriors' Senior Night. Ryan Flaherty had a career night, scoring 5 goals to set the pace for the Mountaineers. Flares' first goal opened the scoring at the 10:42 mark of the 1st period. Cody Penniman and Colin Carlson added assists. With just 35 seconds remaining in the period, Matt Brousseau scored on a deflection of an Ethan Bennett shot right off the faceoff to give Wachusett a 2-0 lead at the 1st intermission. Flaherty scored just 3:52 into the 2nd period after Kevin O'Keefe made a nice play to earn the assist. Caden Lane scored just 20 seconds later sniping a shot in the top left corner. Owen Ambach and Brayden Allaire combined on a nice breakout play to set up the goal, giving Wachusett a 4-0 advantage. Brookline came to life in the 2nd half of the period scoring on their only 2 shots of the period. The first was a shorthanded breakaway goal and they added another at the 11:23 and 13:47 marks of the period, respectively, closing the gap to 4-2 at the 2nd intermission. Wachusett took away any momentum Brookline had jumping on them early in the third. Ethan Benned ripped a snap shot in the top of the net just 1:32 into the period. This was a power play goal assisted by Jake Penniman and Colin Carlson. Flaherty would score the final 3 goals of the game at 6:14, 10:06 and 13:37 to complete his 5-goal night. The first goal was again assisted by Jake Penniman and Carlson. The second was a pretty passing play with assists going to Travis Laidlaw and Cody Penniman. In his last shift of the night, Flares collected a pass from Matt Brousseau in the neutral zone, split the D and buried his 5th of the day, completing the 8-2 win. Kevin Shaw made 15 saves in the win. The team is now 16-1-1 on the season and has two games left this week: Monday at 2:30 against Westboro and Wednesday at 2:30 against Lexington. Both are home games at the NorthStar Ice Sports in Westboro. Record Breaking Notes: 1. The most wins Wachusett Hockey has ever had in a regular season is 17, accomplishing this feat in 1969-70 and again in 2019-20. With two games remaining, the Mountaineers could tie and even break this school record. 2. The most career points scored by any Wachusett hockey player since the year 2000 is 134, set by Colin Bennie, Class of 2013, when he had career totals of 55 goals and 79 assists. Senior Captain Cody Penniman is on the verge of breaking this record this week as he currently has career marks of 60 goals and 72 assists for 132 points. Good luck Cody!!!