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Jack Roe, John Yelsit, Keegan Hughes and Kyle Hooley scored as North Andover dumped Methuen, 4-1. Eddie Mrozowski had 34 saves for the Rangers.

North Andover rallied from two goals down to tie the game, but Andover's Matt Schuhwerk scored with just under two minutes to go in the game to give the Golden Warriors a 4-3 victory in the season-opener for both teams.

Junior Aidan Hollingsworth scored a power play goal in the first period and senior goalie Devin Coonradt stopped 35 shots as Methuen hockey started its season with a 1-0 win over Concord-Carlisle.

Junior Jordan Cane scored his first career goal and freshman goalie Brady McClung made 16 saves in his first start as Pentucket boys hockey blanked Rockport, 4-0, to start the season strong. Cane is a transfer from St. Mary's (Lynn). 

Friday was Nov. 30 but the Brooks School hockey team has hit the ice for real. The Green and White opened their season with a 9-4 win over Pingree. Stephen Higgins, Parker Sondag and Michael Herrera each scored twice in the victory.

NORTH BILLERICA — A postseason that began with so much promise ended in disappointment for Central Catholic on Saturday night. 

The No. 1 seed Raiders fell behind early in the second quarter, and could not recover against an aggressive No. 7 Pope Francis attack, falling 4-1 in the Super 8 loser’s bracket at the Chelmsford Forum.

LOWELL — While the defense showed up Tuesday night at the Tsongas Center, the North Andover offense was missing in action.

Minus one-third of its top skating line, eighth-seeded North Andover managed only five shots on goal in its Division 2 North Regional semifinal Tuesday night as No. 13 seed Boston Latin took advantage of the power outage to claim a 2-0 victory Tuesday night.

“We picked a bad night not to play our best game,” North Andover coach Peter Marfione said. “We were missing (senior captain) Tyler (Buonopane) tonight, but Boston Latin played better than us. They took away our offense. They limited us to under 10 shots, and you’re not going to win a game with that.

Buonopane, who is second on the team with 18 goals and 37 points, suffered a concussion in a 5-2 win over top-seeded Danvers in Friday’s quarterfinal.

North Andover (14-8-2) defeated Boston Latin (13-7-3) twice in the regular season by a combined 8-1 and had piled up 12 goals in two regional victories. But the Knights managed only one shot on net the first 12 minutes. Two of their five shots were in an eight-second span late in the first period

“We just didn’t seem to get anything going. We’ve scored (12) goals the last two games, but we just didn’t get anything going tonight. We just didn’t have it offensively.”

Even though most of the match was spent in the Knight defensive zone, Jack Walsh kept the Wolfpack in check most of the match, surviving an early first-period penalty. The junior gave up a goal midway through the second on a Nick O’Connell one-timer blasted from between the circles.

But that was the only shot that got past Walsh, as the Wolfpack added an empty-netter with 33.6 seconds remaining.

Maintaining form, the Knights were held to only one shot in the crucial third period, while Latin piled up 11 more, including three on another power-play chance that Walsh thwarted.

“It was frustrating but not as frustrating as I thought it would be,” said Walsh, who stopped 23 shots. “It wasn’t anything the team was doing. I know the effort was there. It was just that the puck wasn’t bounding our way, but that’s the stuff you have to deal with.”

LOWELL - It's not the chosen path it wanted to take to win a Super 8 championship, but Central Catholic still is used to playing elimination games.

Heck, last year's Super 8 championship game was as do-or-die as it gets.

HOOKSETT, N.H. — Pinkerton created a few golden opportunities in the closing moments.

With their net open and the extra attacker on the ice, the Astros fired shot after shot on net, each time drawing massive cheers from the vocal Pinkerton fans as pucks looked destined for the goal.