St. Catharines Jr. Falcons vs. Welland Mountainview Homes Tigers (Major Peewee AAA)
Despite trailing the Welland Mountainview Homes Tigers in the SCTA Major Peewee AAA standings by 30 points going into tonight’s contest, it was the Jr. Falcons who appeared to be the better club this evening for much of the game. If not for some late goaltending heroics by Welland netminder #30 Spencer Smith, the end result could have been far different than the 4-2 (EN) Welland win that resulted.
St. Catharines jumped out to a two-goal first period advantage when #12 Riley Dunda scored at 3:44 from #4 Jordan Maletta and #10 Josh Kozielski, and Maletta followed up at 8:27 from Kozielski and #8 Calvin Bond to give the vistors the lead by a deuce. The Tigers would reply before period’s end when #14 Tyler Jackson tallied from #18 Hunter Garlent and #5 Damien Alfieri at 9:44.
Welland would net the equalizer at 6:12 of the middle period when #10 Anthony Difruscia beat Jr. Falcons backstop #1 Nolan Baker, to tie the game at two, on passes from #6 Luke Doherty and Smith. Garlent would score the game winner at 12:09 of the third period on set-ups from Jackson and #17 Zach Olsson, and then would deposit an empty-net goal, assisted by #7 Jake Evans, into the Jr. Falcons open cage at 14:43 to seal the home-side victory.
Welland’s empty-net goal came during its only power-play opportunity of the evening, while St. Catharines was scoreless in two man-advantage situations during the game. The Tigers out-shot the Jr. Falcons overall by a margin of 32-20. The Tigers improve to 26-7-2 on the year, with their final regular-season game being played at home against the Guelph Jr. Storm Cooperators this upcoming Saturday afternoon.
Here is one of the many fine saves made by Spencer Smith to preserve the lead… done
1 Comment
February 28, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Thanks Dish. Good job. Not sure, but I think it was the other St. Kitts goalie last night. And he made some big ones. Undoubtedly though, it was Welland goalie who was forced to make the bigger saves!
Hey, where’s the picture at the top of this page from? Just gorgeous.
Shawn F.