CSH Wiresharks wins hockey faceoff against Pep Band

CSH Wiresharks makes a successful move in the Recreation league Division II.

Rochester, N.Y. – On Thursday, April 18, the Computer Science House Wiresharks hockey team defeated the Pep Band in an intramural hockey game. With a final score of 5 – 3, this victory helped the CSH to advance to its final game in the Recreation league Division II next week.

The RIT Pep Band take the ice against RIT CSH
(Matthew Pickett)

CSH goalie comes up second best as the RIT Pep Band
scores (Matthew Pickett)

With approximately 100 people in attendance, Thursday’s game was considered the biggest playoff game for both teams.  Led and organized by Grant Cohoe, a chairman of the Computer Science House, this season brought many successes for CSH Wiresharks since its last game during Spring 2012.  Several players from RIT men’s hockey team were also seen standing in the Corner Crew section, supporting CSH.

Kevin Carpenter, a staff member at ITS, scored the first goal for CSH within the first eight and a half minutes of the first period.  Matt Campbell, a senior infrastructure engineer at RIT and Corner Crew regular, helped the team to score another goal after two minutes. The Pep Band hockey team managed to score its first goal, shortly before the end of the first period.

In the second period, CSH scored a short handed goal with 1 minute and 36 seconds left in the game.

The RIT Pep Band goalie makes a sliding save.
(Matthew Pickett)

As the game moved into the third period, the Pep Band scored its second goal during first six minutes until the CSH Wiresharks broke through their defense and gained another two goals for themselves.

Members of the CSH salute their fans as they celebrate
their victory. (Matthew Pickett)

Sounds of excitement continued to echo the arena, as the Pep Band scored another goal within the last three minutes of the third period. Both teams continued to defend against each other until Cory Hubbard, from the CSH Wiresharks, took the lead during the last 20 seconds and shot the winning goal.

Following the end of the game, players from the CSH Wiresharks gathered with their friends for a small celebration.

Sights and Sounds: RIT Pep Band vs CSH (Matthew Pickett)

A brief history of the Wiresharks

Hubbard, a student supervisor at Ritter Memorial Ice Arena, gave insight on intramural sports, as well as the team’s history. 

Unlike other hockey teams in other divisions, players in the Intramural teams generally consists of staff, students, as well as members of deaf and hard-of-hearing community. While this season is considered the first intramural game for the CSH Wiresharks, it came a long way to gain its acceptance, due to its history of poor conduct back in 2008 – 2009.

“CSH, as a group, decided they still wanted to play hockey, so I used my connections here, because I work here, to start a hockey league…” said Hubbard. “Given how hockey is largely promoted, intramural was eventually brought back last year.”

With the help of Grant Cohoe, chairman of the Computer Science House, the team was eventually established again and Hubbard helped to train the team in playing hockey.
The CSH Wiresharks will return next week for its final game of the season.  Whom they are battling has yet to be announced.

Stay tuned with For the Tigers for more information.

Authors: Margaret Linandjaja and Raychel Rappold