Despite high expectations, there are times when a team’s season just doesn’t go the way everybody had hoped. For the Southern Regional ice hockey team, the 2017-18 season was one of those seasons.

“The past three seasons have been pretty awesome,” head coach Matt Hayes said following the Rams’ 8-5 loss to Jackson Liberty on Feb. 2. “We had a really talented group of players this year, and we were more than suited for another run at the state tournament. Things just didn’t formulize for us.”