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Patch GOTW: Wootton-Whitman Hockey Wins First Poll
Patriots supporters lead a late charge, helping the varsity hockey game against Whitman win the GOTW poll by a wide margin.
In the first North Potomac-Darnestown Patch Game of the Week for the winter season, a late week surge helped clinch the Wootton Patriots varsity hockey team's game against Whitman as our selection.
The game -- Dec. 16 at 8:50 p.m. at Rockville Ice Arena -- trailed Quince Orchard's varsity basketball matchup with Blake by three percent the morning of Dec. 8 before running away with the vote.
The Wootton-Whitman hockey game finished with 58 percent of the vote; QO-Blake came in second with 28 percent.
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Wootton is 2-3-0 overall (2-1-0 Montgomery Hockey Conference) and is led in scoring by Arthur Yun (four goals, four assists).
Whitman is 3-1-0 overall (3-0-0 MHC) and is led in scoring by Andy Dexter (six goals, two assists).
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