Advertisement
Geiger’s Big Day Helps Reading Defeat Billerica
By Kevin Stone @kstone06
LOWELL - Billerica coach Craig Flynn and Reading coach Charles Hardy wasted little time putting their players' feet to the fire this season, opening their respective seasons with a rematch of last year's Division 1 North semi-final matchup on Tuesday afternoon at cold and rainy Cushing Complex on the campus of UMASS Lowell.
Trailing by three goals with just under four minutes to play, the Rockets erased the deficit and then managed to pull off a thrilling 8-7 win when Jack Geiger potted his fifth goal goal of the game with just 20 seconds remaining.
"We find out who can play and who can't play," Hardy said when asked what he learned from his team's first gam