RANGELEY — The 18th annual Rangeley Pond Hockey Festival was held Friday, Feb. 7 through Sunday, Feb. 8. For the first time in five years, the weather cooperated. The ice was solid, the air was cool, and the only precipitation in the weekend forecast was snow.
“After five years of cancelled, no ice, Antarctic temperatures and abnormal rain storms, we finally got to have a full and complete weekend of games,” organizer Alyssa Carignan said.
The weekend is the largest fundraiser for the Rangeley Skating Club. The club maintains the public rink on Haley Pond and supplies skates and sticks for public use.
More than two dozen teams from around New England and Florida traveled to Rangeley to take part in the tournament. Preliminary games took place Saturday on ten separate rink that were neatly organized and a tight grid. The cacophony of skates cutting ice and hockey sticks hitting pucks added an air of excitement to the crowded pond. Sunday, top teams returned to the rink for the final games and to determine which teams would be named Champions.
Winners of the Rangeley Pond Hockey Tournament are:
Women’s: Freya’s Freeze
Men’s Over 50: Mass Holes
Men’s Under 50: Modest Roots Brewing Blue
Men’s 21-35: The Cold Cuts
Co-Ed: The Ice Gators.
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