May 24, 2008 - It was "Make Up Day" and with the relatively good weather
this season, there were only two games to be made up. The Webster braggin'
rights went to Thomas who defeated Schroeder 10-3. Bath finished up with
an 8-6 victory over Midlakes.
Thomas 10 - Schroeder 3
In
a close game emotons always run high. but when it's the last game of the regular
season and both teams come from Webster and with Sectional seeding on the line,
emotions really run high. Although a very close game for most of the first
half, Thomas took control and scored five goals in a row to
take a 7-3 lead after three and end the game up 10-3.
The game was dominated by excellent defensive play by both teams, although,
in the end, the agressiveness of the Thomas defense (particularly Jake Ziegler,
Andrew Glagolev and Mason Hill), and some fantastic saves by goalie James O`Neil
created the ball time for the Titan offense to open up the game.
The majority of the first quarter saw patient offenses by both teams that meant
moving the ball around the outside with a few aborted drives. The defenseive
units, also being patient, waited for opportunities to get possession of the
ball. Clears were largely successful and the ball went back and forth. The
first goal wasn't scored until Schroeder's Chris Mason beat two Thomas defensers
and bounced the ball over Scott Tota's shoulder. A minute and a half later,
Thomas tied the score on an unassisted goal by defenseman Jake Ziegler who
on a clear, took the ball all the way to the goal. The quarter ended with the
teams tied at one.
A change in defensive intensity took place in the sceond quarter as Thomas
became more aggressive on the ball and Schroeder sagged off more, preventing,
for the most part, inside feeds, but giving the Titan offense more ball time
on the outside, but liomiting the number of shots taken. At 9:38, JT Hauck
received the ball out front (from Max Gurowski) and with a powerful sidearm
shot scored off skip hip. After more transition and with 2:43 left in the half,
Schroeder had a goal from Chris Mason (unassisted) with a drive from top left.
Thomas returned with two quick goals to end the half. Nick Scalzo took a feed
from William Gurowski, bulled his way into the high crease under heavy pressure
and hip-checked the defender to get enough room to should around him.
On the
next face off, Schroeder won the ball, but Thomas took it away and started
up field on the sprint. Kyle LaVallee received the ball from Kenny Tomeno and
after dodging one outside defenseman, took a bounce shot that scored. Schroeder
was hit with and illegal check penalty. After the face off Jack Hinderland
got the ball for Thomas and after beating an outside defended took a beautiful
shot that was saved by Tota. Thomas broke the clear and Hinderland had another
shot which bounced off the goal. The half ended with Thomas up 4-2, but with
both teams playing like winners.
In the third quarter, Thomas took control, scoring three lone goals while behaving
more like there were the better team. Schroeder was still very much in the
game, but the Titans began to behave like they were in control. Hinderland,
who was still bothered by his two missed goals at the end of the half, scored
the first goal in the second half. After cutting to the crease, her recievd
the ball, but found no shot. On his way "to daylight" he turned and
scored at 11:13. Kenny Thomeno added a garbage goal at 9:04 after a save by
Tota bounced in front of the cage. Nick Scalzo received a cross crease pass
from Gurowski at 7:44 giving the titans a 7-2 third quarter lead.
The Warriors scored early in the fourth quarter when Cody Consul received and
pass from Pete Noto behind the cage. While the Schroeder defense was still
in sag off, they ran a shutoff against Gurowski that was successful in keeping
him from the scorebook at that point, but the Titans, simply used other players
to get the job done. There was a generaly lack of urgency by the Warriors on
both ends of the field. Kyle LaVallee scored with an assist from Scalzo in
man up at 8:27. They scored again at 6:30 while man down. Gurowski took the
ball from out of bounds and was doubled by Schroder, While running from the
double whe found Pat Morrill who quickly moved the ball to Scalzo on the crease
who faked high and shot low on Tota. Schroeder started to pick up a number
of penalties at this point, and although Thomas was content with ball possession
rather than shots. Hinderland found Kyle Rothfuss on the inside for another
Titan goal at 2:17 which ended the scoring.
Scoring for Thomas were Nick Scalzo (3g-1a), Kyle LaVallee (2g), Max Gurowski
(2a), Kenny Tomeno (1g-1a), Jack Hinderland (1g-1a), single goals by Jake Ziegler,
JT Hauck and Kyle Rothfus and a single assist by William Gurowski and Pat Morrill.
James O'Neil had 9s/3ga for Thomas who finish the regular season at 12-7.
Scoring for Schroeder were Chris Mason (2g), Cody Consul (1g) and Pete Noto
(1a). Scott Total had 9s/10ga for the Warriors who end their season at 8-8.
Bath 8 - Midlakes 6
In
there final regular season games, Bath defeated Midlakes 8-6. Each team scored
three goals in the first quarter, but Bath scored three unanswered goals in
the second and lead at the break 6-3. Midlakes came back scoring two unanswered
goals in the third. At the start of the final quarter Bath was up 6-5. Midlakes
added one goal and Bath added two goals for the win and a record of 9-8 while
the Eagles end at 8-10.
Scoring for Bath were Zach Reed (1g-3a), Dave Harris (2g-1a), Nick Rossi (2g),
Mckenzie Durham (1g-1a), Andy Nesbitt (1g) and Cole Beebe (1g). Chris Wolfer
finished with 18s/6ga.
Scoring for Midlakes were Nick Newland (5g), Tyler Brook-Lambert (3a), Ben
Uveges (1g-1a) and Conor Hogan (1a). Jared Schoonerman recorded 15s/8ga.
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