{"id":23024,"date":"2019-02-21T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=23024"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:56:08","slug":"newmarkets-williams-leads-northeastern-to-beanpot-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/newmarkets-williams-leads-northeastern-to-beanpot-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Newmarket\u2019s Williams leads Northeastern to Beanpot title"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

TD Garden. 15,000 fans. And a trophy.
\nWhat a way to end a college career.
\nNewmarket native and ex-Aurora Tiger Eric Williams captained the Northeastern University Huskies to their second-straight Beanpot tournament title on Monday at the home of the NHL\u2019s Boston Bruins, taking down the rival Boston College Eagles by a score of 4 \u2013 2.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s incredible, to be able to get a win in my last Beanpot tournament,\u201d the college senior told a packed-house press conference following the game. \u201cBut I\u2019m also extremely happy for the freshmen who haven\u2019t experience this feeling yet. It\u2019s an amazing feeling. It\u2019s something none of us are ever going to forget.\u201d
\nA battle of cross-town rivals in the Boston area since the early 1950s, the Beanpot is played annually between Northeastern, Boston College, Boston University, and Harvard University in front of a rabid fan base of college rivalry.
\nFor Williams, who is enjoying his best season statistically since his sophomore year, it\u2019s the icing on the cake for a stellar college career.
\n\u201cI wish I could play in this tournament every year until the day I die. It\u2019s
\nthat much fun.\u201d
\nDespite the program failing to reach the Beanpot spotlight for over thirty years, Williams said he felt good about the program\u2019s future when he made his college decision midway through his second year with the OJHL\u2019s
\nAurora Tigers.
\n\u201cObviously, having not won it in so long, there was a little bit of pressure but I think everybody in the locker room, coming to the tournament every year, was so eager to be the first team to break that streak. Being able to do that last year really got us able to experience that feeling\u2026and made us want it every year going forward.
\n\u201cYou realize how big it is, when you talk to other students, teachers, staff\u2026just every time you run into them they\u2019re asking if you\u2019re gonna win the Beanpot this year. It\u2019s such an incredible experience.\u201d
\nEarning the bragging rights to one of the most coveted titles in college hockey certainly cements Williams\u2019 legacy amongst the Northeastern captains, especially considering it is the team\u2019s second title in two years. The Huskies took down the Boston University Terriers in the 2018 championship, 5 \u2013 2, for the school\u2019s first Beanpot since 1988.
\n\u201cEveryone in that locker room was so eager to be the first team to break that streak. We got that feeling and we wanted to experience it again this year,\u201d said Williams. \u201cAnd every year after.\u201d
\nAfter cutting his teeth with the York-Simcoe Express AAA minor program, Williams transitioned smoothly to the Junior A level as an important piece of the Tigers\u2019 blueline. In his second year with the club, he was given the title of assistant captain, riding a 50-point season in 2014-15 to a scholarship offer from the prestigious Huskies program.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TD Garden. 15,000 fans. And a trophy.
\nWhat a way to end a college career.
\nNewmarket native and ex-Aurora Tiger Eric Williams captained the Northeastern University Huskies to their second-straight Beanpot tournament title on Monday at the home of the NHL\u2019s Boston Bruins, taking down the rival Boston College Eagles by a score of 4 \u2013 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5Zm","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 18:15:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}