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WEDNESDAY, February 13, 2013
TEKAWENNAKE
LL Atoms take 5-3 win over Waterford By Jim Windle OHSWEKEN
In Local League play, the Six Nations Intertown Atoms’ strong third period made the difference as Six Nations won 5-3 over Waterford, Saturday afternoon at the GPA in Ohsweken. “The team’s effort today was awesome,” said head coach Arnold “Bub” Jacobs. “They did everything I asked them to do and the score does not matter to me, it’s the effort they put out that counts.” Damon Decaire opened the scoring with his first of a three goal performance with a hard wrist shot high to the glove side of Greg Strachan in the Waterford net. Waterford battled back and scored two goals within the last minute of play in the period, both from the edge of
Six Nations starting goalie Hailee Johnson’s crease with lots of traffic in front of her. Hunter Tobicoe went to the five hole on Strachan to tie the game for Six Nations very early in the second period with a shot that trickled through and into the net. He was assisted by Isaac Sawyer. But Waterford took the lead back when Alex Bannister made good on a breakaway. Less than ten seconds later, Decaire evened things up again with an unassisted goal once again high to the stick side. His third goal, scored with 1:34 remaining in the second period, was scored in exactly the same place with another hard wrister, assisted by Keyara James. Six Nations put the game on ice early in the third period with a shot along the ice which eluded Strachen to
made it 5-3. Waterford almost tied the game again when a Waterford player broke in on the Six Nations net and bounced one off the goal post with 4:30 left. In the last seconds of the game, tempers flared after a scramble around the Six Nations net. A Waterford player hacked and speared Raymond Hill in the goal crease and when Hill pushed the player off his feet, he was given a game misconduct. This infuriated coach Jacobs but it took a few words from the Waterford coach about his player to set off a shouting match between the two coaches. Jacobs was then assessed a game misconduct for his part in the disagreement. Waterford was not penalized. Six Nations hung on to take the 5-3 win.
powerplay goal. Six Nations’ Tyler Brown tipped in a pass by Robert Hill and Keelan Green at the edge of the crease to tie it at 1-1. Waterford answered and the second period ended with Waterford leading by a 2-1 score. Brown tied it up at 2-2 early in the third when he put a great move on the Waterford goalie after being sent in all alone with a pass from Brent Beauchamp.
Six Nations took the lead when Robert Hill flipped a blind backhander into the net as he was 10 feet out and facing the blueline. At this point, the Waterford players began to loose their composure and ran into a string of penalties. With a two man advantage powerplay in progress, Hill scored his second of the game to cushion the Six Nations lead to 4-2, which is how the game ended.
Ayden Sky came that close to scoring Saturday when his shot was accidentally stopped by the knee of his own man in the Waterford goal crease. Six Nations won the game 4-2. (Photo by Jim Windle)
Intertown Bantams double up on Waterford 4-2 By Jim Windle OHSWEKEN
The Local League Intertown Six Nations Bantams won 4-2 over Waterford in the third minor hockey game of the afternoon Saturday, Feb. 9. The teams fought through the scoreless first period with lots of great chances at both ends of the ice. Waterford drew first blood in the second period with a
Tyler Brown breaks into the Waterford zone in Saturday’s 4-2 win over Waterford. Brown accounted for two of the Six Nations goals. (Photo by Jim Windle)
Six Nations CLax teams out of town this week
Six Nations Bantams’ Robert Hill celebrates his second goal of the game in the third period of Saturday afternoon’s 4-2 win over Waterford at the Gaylord Powless Arena. Hill also scored what proved to be the game winner. Six Nations other two goals came from the stick of Tyler Brown. (Photo by Jim Windle)
Last Friday the Iroquois Ironmen and the Ohsweken Demons were both supposed to have had games, but the weather man had other ideas and dumped a load of snow on the entire region. As a result these games were postponed. As of press time, these games have not been rescheduled. However, this coming weekend will see the Ironmen looking for their first win of the season and the Demons trying to hold onto first place with the Toronto Shooting Stars closing in. Monday night the Demons take on the Welland Lock Monsters in Welland with the Ironmen taking a crack at the Monsters the next night (Tuesday), also in Welland. The following weekend,
Friday night Feb. 22, the Ironmen play host to the Brampton Inferno at the ILA, while the Demons have the week off, that is unless last week’s postponed game is rescheduled. After week five in the schedule, Roger Vyse reigns as the league’s leading scorer
with 40 points in six games played. Next is Delby Powless with 35 points and Wayme VanEvery with 30, all three are Demons. Chris Attwood leads the Ironmen with 19 points in three games, tied with Niagara’s Kim Squire who has played one more game.