The Perry-Basha hockey team is determined to do well this season after an upsetting season last year. The team finished 8-12 last season with only 16 points total. They look to overcome that and get into the playoffs this season.

Perry’s Brendan Andrews who is playing right wing this year predicts the Pumas will finish 10-16 this year.

“I don’t like having two teams,” Andrews stated.

The team has been split with Basha for three years now.

“Honestly, I don’t think we’ll do that well, we’re a new team. We went from being really good from the Hamilton team to being split up,” Andrews said.

Andrews is a natural leader of the team.

“He’s a damn good player,” Hamilton defenseman and old teammate, Greg Lang, said.

The hockey team has many kids from Basha with a few kids from Perry and other schools. Most of the players are new to the team, except veterans Daniel Young and Brendan Andrews.  Young had a decent season last year as he had 4 goals in his 18 games. Andrews had 4 goals and 6 assists in only 15 games last year. Andrews was a really well balanced player last season, despite having 18 penalties.

The hockey team is fairly new but is still appears to look like an uprising team. Hamilton seems to be the rival for the Perry-Basha team. Last season they played each other 3 times. The first time they met up the Perry-Basha team won 4-0. The second meeting resulted in another win for the team as they won 5-2. The last time they met up was the closest but the team pulled through and won 3-2.

Sophomore goaltender, Zach Klein, is in his second year with Perry-Basha team. He enjoys having his dad as a coach.

The teams consists mainly of freshmen and sophomores, rather than juniors and seniors like last year.

“It’s harder not having a true leader, but it’s working pretty well so far,” Klein said.

His goal is to finish in the top 3 or 4, and help the team rally after starting 0-6. Klein is excited to play Hamilton this year as the starting goalie.

“My biggest thing is getting all these guys working together, working together, and having what they are doing on the ice also reflect what they do off the ice,” Steve Klein, coach of Perry-Basha team stated. Klein’s biggest competition is Sandra Day O’Connor hopes for the team to finish strong this season.