DOVER — Just when you thought you’d seen it all in sports, perhaps the most bizarre ending to a hockey game ever took place on March 2 between the Berlin-Gorham-Kennett girls and hosts Oyster River-Portsmouth.
It looked to all the world that the No. 5 Mountaineers had scored the winning goal in overtime. Players left the bench while teammates skated the length of the ice to celebrate Ava Bartoli’s apparent 3-2 game-winner on a blast from just inside the blue line.
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