WPCNR PRESS BOX. By “Red Light” Bailey. December 1, 2006: For the first two minutes and 40 seconds of this game there was end to end action. Charlie Pavarini put an end to that.

Number 14,  Charlie Pavarini’s slick conversion flying in off left wing and taking a laser, stick-to-the-blade pass from Ryan McGee to Charlie from behind the goal set him up real nice about 15 feet out. He nailed it,  beating  the Pawling tender high left and tight inside with a forehander at 4:18 of the First Period  at Ebersole Rink Thursday night to start a workmanlike 5-1 Tiger win. Here Pavarini has lofted the puck behind the Pawling goaltender into the left side of the net. Ryan McGee who created the goal is just behind the goal line. Then the “Seek Line” of Phil Sigona, Tim Conroy and Rui Encarnacao took over the ice. Photo, WPCNR Sports

With the Tigers on the Power Play after a foolish “Hit From Behind” Pawling penalty, at 5:36 in, Phil Sigona took an errant shot from Rui Encarnacao on left wing in the far corner. Phil tentatively skated in along the goal line with no defenseman picking him up and took on the goaltender at point blank range. Phil savagely jammed the rubber in on the right side of the net through the tender’s pads between the legs, for a 2-0 lead 1 minute and 28 seconds later at 7:46 of the First.

The Tigers got careless at the 11:06 of the period and allowed Pawling’s Kevin Gaughran swooping in on right wing after taking a cross-ice pass from Bill Vitro to beat Mike Camberari off balance to make it 2-1 with 3:54 to go in the period.

With Pawling slowing down because of the furious pace, Rui Encarnarcao received a pass from Phil Sigona(Number 8) from the left hand corner behind the goal taking the feed about 30 feet out. Rui skated across ice above the circles, uncontested and fired his whip forehander at waist level past goaltender Schwartz to Schwartz’s right who appeared handcuffed by the hummer. Looking at this shot, Rui (Number 9) is about to fire the black laser and the goaltender appears screened by his own defenseman. Photo, WPCNR Sports

There was 1:57 to go in the period and it ended that way, 3-1 White Plains. Mike Cambareri’s goal-tending was outstanding in the First Period especially in the first two minutes and the last 7, making 4 very difficult saves to start the game on close-in shots caused by ill-advised cross ice passes and clearing attempts that did not clear.

In the second period, Pawling’s attack was consistently stymied by better positioning by the WP defensemen, Fairhurst, McCarrick and the relentless forechecking of White Plains forwards.  Pawling managed only 5 shots on goal. Meanwhile White Plains pressed the action on three power plays with the Orange and Black converting on power play number 3 with Tim Conroy sweeping in a loose puck to the left of the new Pawling goaltender, Andy Bardua.

The Mucker Mops Up! After Pawling's Andy Bardua had made the initial save, Conroy’s work behind the net to set up an initial shot from the goaltender’s right by Encarnarcao, leading to the bound off the goalies pads and Conroy poking and badgering and whacking, swept it in for a 4-1  White Plains lead with 5:51 to go in the second period. It broke open the game. Rui Encarnacao celebrates! Conroy (12) just behind Pawling defenseman celebrate the hardwork. The puck is just to the left of the goaltender's extended leg. Photo, WPCNR Sports

The third period saw the Tigers ice it early when Rui Encarnarcao notched his second goal of the night on assists from Conroy and Steve McCarrick just 2 minutes and 24 seconds into the period to make it 5-1. Rui's second goal was very much like his First Period score, a blast from out front between the circles.

Mike Cambareri padding aside a point blanker from the right wing in the Third Period. Photo, WPCNR Sports

Cambareri sticks away another in the Third Period. (Seen through the scarred, scratched, and badly-in-need-of-replacing rinkside glass.) Photo, WPCNR Sports

Tiger Paws: The “Seek Line,” so dubbed by WPCNR because they “seek out” the puck, and it is a play on Phil Sigona’s name, had a great hockey night. Encarnarcao’s 2 goals gives him 6 for the season with 5 assists, Tim Conroy’s goal and assist gives him 2 goals for the season, plus 8 assists, and Phil Sigona’s goal and assist gives him 7 for the season with 3 assits… Mike Cambareri made 24 saves, Pawling’s two goaltenders handled 39 shots…Charlie Pavarini who got things started notched goal number 2 for his season…White Plains moves to 4-1. Next home game is Thursday night on Ebersole Ice, 5:15 P.M.

The WPCNR Stars of the Game are the three members of the Seek Line:  No 1, Rui Encarnarcao, Number  2, Tim Conroy and Star No. 3, Phil Sigona -- the line that works for each other, scores together.