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Hawks´ top line key in win over Gardiner

By BILL STEWART, Kennebec Journal Thursday, February 7, 2013

HALLOWELL -- The Maranacook/Hall-Dale/Winthrop co-operative hockey team features one of the top lines in all of Class A, with Dan Condon, Jared Hanson and Matt Plourde combining to average about seven points a game.

The trio was at it again Thursday night, accounting for most of the damage in a 4-3 win over Gardiner at the Bank of Maine Ice Vault.

Condon had a goal and three assists to power the Hawks (8-4-2). Plourde and Hanson each added a goal and and an assist.

Alex Nadeau scored two goals and Seth Wing added a goal and an assist for Gardiner (4-9-1), which retired the No. 18 jersey of former captain Teddy Robbins before the game in a short yet touching ceremony. Robbins, who graduated from Gardiner in 1978, died Feb. 4, 1981 of complications from colon cancer. A defenseman, Robbins played for Norm Gagne and led the Tigers to the Class B state championship game his senior year. Gagne, as well as several members of that 1977-78 team, were on hand Thursday.

"He was a special person," Gagne said. "He was a great leader. I practiced my speech a thousand times and each time it was hard to get through it. It was an emotional night."

Bessette put the Hawks up for good when he scored a power-play goal with 7 minutes, 54 seconds left in the second period to snap a 1-1 game.

Condon, working the point, slid the puck across the ice to Bessette, who ripped it through traffic and past Gardiner goalie Brad Moore to the far side.

Nadeau gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead when he beat Tyler Plante with a low shot from out front just 4:12 into the game.

MHW responded when Plourde scored a power-play goal with 3:37 left in the period.

Plourde took a pass from Condon inside the left circle and ripped a shot on net. Moore got his pad on the puck, but it still trickled through and into the net.

Bill Stewart -- 621-5640

bstewart@centralmaine.com