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Condon & Pallis Featured in The Boston Globe
January 23, 2012 | Men's Ice Hockey
Needham's Condon, Medfield's Pallis on Defensive for Princeton Hockey
Marvin Pave, The Boston Globe (1/22/12)
Mike Condon and Derrick Pallis are best of friends now, Princeton University teammates focused on trying to keep the puck out of the net for the men's hockey squad.
Condon, a 6-foot-2, 195-pound junior goalie from Needham, shares time in goal with sophomore Sean Bonar.
A 6-foot-1, 190-pound senior defenseman from Medfield, Pallis anchors the blue line for the Tigers.
The two were rivals in the Independent School League, with Condon tending goal for Belmont Hill School while Pallis suited up for Noble & Greenough School in Dedham. They went head-to-head four times, with Belmont Hill winning three, according to Condon.
"We're always chirping at each other, sometimes about our private school days, but in a respectful way," said Condon, who helped Princeton complete a 1-0-1 weekend with 27 saves in a 3-3 tie against ninth-ranked Cornell last Saturday night."Against Cornell, I just had to blank out any negative thoughts going into the third period," Condon said, after Princeton (6-10-5 overall, 5-8-2 ECAC) had erased a 3-0 Cornell lead. "As a goalie, you have to think ahead and clean the slate."