For Duxbury women hockey star senior Addy Harrington, there’s probably no greater praise.
Most of the state’s juggernauts headed to The Lavatory for the eight-team Tenney Cup during the last weekend of December, and the host Dragons had been locked in a scoreless marathon with an undefeated Notre Dame Academy (H) within the semifinals.
However on an influence play in double additional time, junior Shea Martin received the faceoff out of a timeout from the left dot, Harrington carried the puck into the center lane, and Harrington wristed within the game-winning purpose – executing head coach Dan Najarian’s play name completely – to elevate Duxbury to the event’s championship recreation.
Najarian shared a fast look with the participant he’s coached since in regards to the third grade, feeling virtually as if the rink went quiet for a second out of mutual respect and admiration. After the sport, he informed reporters that the four-year varsity participant is “the epitome of Duxbury hockey,” and referred to as her “actually the guts and soul of the workforce.”
To Harrington, effectively, she watched two-time Boston Herald Dream Crew ahead Ayla Abban dominate with Duxbury. Harrington received a Div. 2 state title as a freshman with famend captain Lily Sparrow, Dream-Teamer McKenna Colella and two-time Dream Crew goalie Anna McGinty. She received one other as a sophomore with McGinty and Dream Crew ahead Maddie Greenwood. She shared a line with 100-point scorers Zoe Madigan (a two-time All-Scholastic) and Megan Carney. She additionally performed with All-Scholastic defender Sami Norton.
Her respect for all of them is infinite. And phrases like Najarian’s put her legacy in this system proper up there with all of them.
“Coming into Duxbury as a freshman, I noticed these leaders,” Harrington mentioned. “I noticed the folks that actually represented Duxbury Excessive College. That’s actually all I wished – to be a junior and senior and take that function. For ‘Nudge’ to say that, it means every little thing to me.
“I knew loads of upperclassmen that did tackle that function. And for them to move down that management to me, and for me to be in it, it’s simply the perfect factor that may occur.”
If there have been a posterchild of rising by way of this system to rise as one of many state’s high gamers during the last couple years, it’s Harrington.
After scoring 10 factors as a freshman with the eventual state-champion Dragons, Harrington – alongside Madigan and Carney on what Najarian referred to as the “crimson” line – notched 31 factors as Duxbury repeated. Madigan and Carney then surpassed 100 profession factors as seniors final yr, whereas Harrington posted a career-high 38 factors as a junior.
For Duxbury to achieve its perennial purpose of successful the state title, Najarian knew Harrington would wish to step up with new linemates. The captain has responded accordingly with 32 factors by way of 16 video games, together with many main clutch performances.
The additional time winner towards Canton? Harrington. A key insurance coverage purpose for a 2-0 win over Hingham? Harrington. She additionally had a hat trick in a 4-0 win over Div. 1 risk Malden Catholic, surpassing 100 profession factors. Even in 7-0 win over Whitman-Hanson/Silver Lake, Harrington dished six assists.
“I feel you’re seeing the kind of participant that she is that this yr,” Najarian mentioned. “Addy was on that line (with Madigan and Carney) and he or she scored an entire bunch of factors on her personal, and now right here she is with a brand new crew, new linemates, and he or she’s nonetheless doing what she’s doing. … As importantly, she’s doing all of the little issues. She’s backchecking, she’s on the penalty kill. She’s taken on a a lot bigger function in form of all conditions.”
Harrington offers credit score elsewhere, particularly to Najarian, for her success in these huge moments this yr. However she takes pleasure in executing them.
“It means every little thing to me,” she mentioned. “It’s so thrilling. Simply as a workforce total, attending to really feel that second in an in depth recreation towards a great workforce. Delivering that purpose as a senior captain, it will get me so excited and it will get the workforce so excited.”
For Harrington and fellow senior standouts Alannah Gallagher and Olivia Gleason, this can be a little bit of a full-circle yr. The three of them, and Lucia Rose, had been on varsity as freshmen. Now, the Dragons have 9 freshmen and 4 sophomores they’re main.
Passing the torch is one thing Harrington takes very significantly.
“Final yr’s captains and seniors positively handed the torch to the seniors now,” Harrington mentioned. “I look as much as them a lot, they usually handed that torch completely they usually set the perfect examples for me in the way to be a frontrunner. Now my function is displaying the juniors what it’s prefer to be a task mannequin, chief, the captain.”
Harrington’s freshman yr went easily largely as a result of comfortability she felt enjoying and speaking with a big senior class on the time. Harrington, Gallagher and Gleason have put an emphasis on extending that to the younger group, and Harrington says chemistry thus far has been “superb.”
Najarian can’t emphasize sufficient how vital Harrington’s management has been.
“You’ve acquired to appreciate the 9 or 10 freshmen that I’ve within the locker room, Addy is like an icon to them,” he mentioned. “These women watched her play all these years, and now she’s their captain. She’s their chief.”
Scoring 100 factors wasn’t one thing Harrington thought of a lot as an underclassmen, however felt a jolt to achieve the milestone as Madigan and Carney did earlier than her. They joked along with her proper after the win over Malden Catholic that she ought to’ve reached the feat once they did final yr.
“However the perfect factor they mentioned is, ‘We wish you to move us, we wish you to move us in factors,’” Harrington mentioned.
Coming into the weekend, Harrington is at 111 profession factors – surpassing each of them. And now, a yr after falling within the Div. 2 state quarterfinals, Harrington believes within the crew this yr to make it again to TD Backyard for another title run.
“We simply need to come again even stronger (from final yr) and present everybody the true workforce that we’re,” she mentioned. “Being a senior, I need to get there so unhealthy. We’ll do no matter it takes, give 100% at each follow and recreation.”
Ed Burns Espresso Pot Week 2 Pairings
The dates, occasions and pairings for the second spherical of the annual Ed Burns Espresso Pot Event are official.
Within the Doherty Division, Arlington hosts Tewksbury on Sunday at 5:40 p.m. whereas Hingham hosts Canton on Monday at 6 within the Brinn Division. Woburn hosts Marshfield on Sunday at midday whereas Walpole hosts Winchester on Sunday at 2:20.
Within the comfort of the Brinn Division, Harmony-Carlisle hosts Belmont at Chelmsford Discussion board on Sunday at 3:20 whereas Braintree faces Franklin in Walpole at 4:30. Within the comfort for the Doherty Division, Chelmsford hosts Weymouth at 5:30 on Sunday whereas Milton faces Studying within the early afternoon at Woburn.
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