With a combined 70 goals and 72 assists across 23 games, the Belmont High School boys hockey team boasted one of the state’s top lines.
Senior center and captain Adam Bauer and wingers Liam Guilderson, a sophomore, and Leo Packard, a junior, helped the Marauders to a 16-7-1 mark, championships at the Ed Burns Coffee Pot Doherty Division, Cardinal Classic, and the No. 6 seed in the MIAA Division I tournament.
For their efforts, Bauer (23 goals, 24 assists) and Guilderson (25 goals, 26 assists) earned Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic honors. Packard (22 goals, 22 assists) received Globe honorable mention status.
“The top line worked hard to receive the postseason accolade,” Belmont boys hockey coach Tim Foley said. “Before the season, most polls did not have our team in the top 20 rankings. As the first line drove the offense, which in turn produced the wins, they proved to the opposition that they were a force to be reckoned with.”
The Co-Middlesex League Liberty MVP, Bauer played four years on the Belmont varsity, averaging over a point per game his last three seasons. Across 91 career games, the 6-foot-3, 190-pounder amassed 45 goals and 64 assists per game.
Though Guilderson and Packard aren’t graduating, they’re heading to prep school. Guilderson will play at Dexter-Southfield in Brookline, Packard at Middlesex School in Concord, and goalie Ethan Bauer, Adam’s younger brother, is heading to Belmont Hill.
“The good news is the next group of underclassmen and young players coming up from BYHA are ready to take on the first line role and will push to put up similar numbers,” Foley said.
Both the Globe and Herald named girls hockey netminder Jil Costa an All-Scholastic. The junior earned Middlesex League Liberty MVP honors, leading the Marauders to a 17-2-4 record and a berth in the MIAA Division I quarterfinals. She posted a .960 save percentage, .90 goals against average, and 10 shutouts for the second consecutive campaign.
Belmont High School Winter 2024-25 Middlesex League All-Stars
- Boys basketball: Braiden Dargen
- Girls basketball: Sophia McClendon, Linda Sheng
- Boys hockey: Adam Bauer (League MVP), Liam Guilderson, Leo Packard
- Girls hockey: Mackenzie Clarke, Jil Costa (League MVP), Sadie Taylor
- Boys track and field: Alborz Mosharaf, Takeshi Tatsumi
- Girls track and field: Dana Lehr (League MVP)
- Boys swimming: Rohan Bhagwati, Thomas Borkowski, Lucas Cadet, David Chen, Ethan Gong, Miles Hendriks, Benjamin Leger, Aodhan Mitchell, Hunter Olowinski, Benjamin Wu
- Boys skiing: Rhys Harteveldt
- Girls skiing: Anoush McCarthy
- Wrestling: Will Babcock, Ava Svistunov