If ticket sales are any indication, hockey fever is running rampant at Malden Catholic.The Lancers play for their first Division 1A (Super 8) title Sunday at TD Banknorth Garden and from the looks of things, they’ll do a decent job filling the seats.Coach Chris Serino said the 750 tickets the MIAA sent to the school sold out almost immediately and they probably could have sold another 750.”There’s a rich tradition of hockey at Malden Catholic,” Serino said.Serino said the school had some great hockey teams in the 1960s and 1970s, and the team has done pretty well the last few years, but there was a drought of about 10-12 years where alumni didn’t have quite as much to cheer about.The Lancers, fresh off a huge win over Catholic Memorial in the semifinals, will play Reading at 7:30 p.m. The Rockets will also be looking to make a little history. If they win, they’ll be the first public school team to take home the Div. 1A title.The Lancers will have their work cut out trying to contain the Rockets’ high scoring first line of Pat Kiley, Mike Lozzi and Rob Toczylowski.”That line has probably scored more goals than my whole team,” Serino said. “I think they’re the best line in the state. It will be a real challenge for us.”Serino said his team has been playing very well defensively, which should help considerably.”I think you’ll see a game with a real powerful going against a powerful defense,” he said, adding the Lancers may be helped by a deeper bench.”If we have one advantage, it’s that we have a little more depth. The longer we’re in the game, the better chance we have,” Serino said.The Lancers have some guys who can put the puck in the net. Sophomore Andrew Ceretani is the team’s leading scorer with 10 goals and 23 assists. Craig Carbonneau had 17 goals and 14 assists and Zach Sheppard had 12 goals and 18 assists. Carbonneau is the center and the other two play the wing. Malden Catholic’s defense could be minus one of its top players. Senior Evan Yanovitch played against Catholic Memorial, but he wasn’t at 100 percent due to a groin injury and his status is questionable..”He’s one of the best in the league,” Serino said. “He played, but he was playing on one leg. He didn’t play the last seven minutes.”Serino said one thing that has stood out during the tournament run is the level of support the team is receiving.”Traditionally the public schools in the tournament draw much better than the Catholic schools, but we had a big or bigger crowds than anyone in the tournament,” he said.Serino said there are 660 boys in the school and nearly 500 were at the game the other day. The alumni support has also been great, he said.”In the 1960s and early 1970s, Malden Catholic was the dominant hockey school in New England,” Serino said.He said alumni from some of the great teams have been anxious to come out and support the team,.”I think our guys are starting to see the history of the program,” he said. “And how important it is.”Serino said after losing 13 seniors off last year’s team, not many people gave this year’s team much of a chance of doing anything in the tournament. He said the team wasn’t scoring a lot of goals in the early going, although the defense was good.”I don’t think anyone throught we could get to this point,’ he said.The good news for the Lancers is that it’s still a young team. Serino will have its top seven forwards returning next year and six of the eight defensemen. Both goalies are also back. Even with such a promising future, Serino knows the unexpected can happen.”You can be really good. Catholic Memorial didn’t lose a game all year, and they lost two in the tournament,” he said. Just because we’re ahead of schedule doesn’t mean we can’t fall off schedule.Serino said to get to a championship game, you have to have some luck to go with the talent. The difference between going 0-3 in the Super 8 tournament and going 3-0 isn’t much, a goal a game, maybe.No matter what happens on Sunday, Serino knows one thing for sur