Bantam Rep - Bantams Advance to Quarter-Finals
Submitted By Blake Eady on Saturday, February 11, 2012
The Cayuga Bantam Rep team advances to round three (Quarter finals).
Game details will be posted early next week. They will take on either Port Dover Sailors or Burford Coyotes who are battling in game 5 today.
Game 1:
The Cayuga Bantams began the second round of their OMHA playdowns hosting Six
Nations. The Cayuga Team came out flying and won the game 7-2. The team won the
game with hard work abd dedication. That translated into hard work in both ends
of the rink beginning with strong goaltending from Ryan Clarke. Solid play from
both the forwards and the defense kept the pressure on the Six Nations team and
got the Cayuga Boys off to a great start (Cayuga 2
pts Six Nations 0 pts)
Game 2:
The Cayuga team travelled to Six Nations. The Cayuga boys came out flying
in the first period and jumped out to a 3-0 lead. The Six Nations team would
not go quietly into the night they demonstrated their pride and talent and took
control of the second period narrowing the Cayuga lead to 3-2. The Cayuga boys
fought back and took control of the game early in the third getting a 4-2 lead.
The Cayuga boys seemed in control of the game until 3and a half minutes left in
the game when the Six Nation boys scored. Six Nations threw everything they had
at the Cayuga Boys Strong goaltending from Dakota Freeman and hard work
from the team say the Cayuga team bend but they did not break and they hung on
to win the game 4-3 and win game 2. (Cayuga 4 pts
Six Nations 0 pts)
Game 3:
Game 3 was back in our arena with a chance to advance to round three- the quarter
finals. Six Nations were not going down without a fight. Six Nations
team jumped out to a 1-0 lead. A lead that would carry over until the
third period. While the Six Nations team dominated the game Cayuga was
still in the game due to a strong performance by our goalie Ryan Clarke. Late
in the third period the Cayuga boys would fight back to tie the game 1-1. The
game would go into overtime. The Cayuga boys remembered how they felt back in
the St George series when they lost game two in overtime and that was all the
motivation the boys needed as they went out and scored the game and series
winning goal. (Cayuga 6 pts Six Nations 0 pts)
Winning this
series was again a team effort and every member of this team contributed. In
two series the Cayuga team has got strong goaltending from both Ryan
Clarke and Dakota Freeman. They have combined for a 1.75 goals against average
and a 6-1-1 record. We had strong leadership on defense from Co-Captain
Jonathan Armstrong, Assistant Captain Caleb Brooker who often dominated play on
the ice. Daniel Martin saved his best game for game 3 of this series Our
Defense continue to play the best hockey of their season , Austin Harrop, and
AP player James Tattersall also had great efforts. Our forwards were led
by Co-Captain Liam Daly, Assistant Captain Alex Doucette and who scored
big goals and Ty Walters-Salvatori who was a scoring machine and the team
leader in scoring. Sam Armstrong scored a big goal and assist in game 1.
Tyler Loney , Matt Kinnear (Assistant Captain) Matt Berkmortel Noah Palladino also made some big
plays to help lead this team into the third round
Congrats
boys once again you made your coaches proud!
Coaches
Head Coach: Blake Eady
Assistant Coach: Tony Palladino
Trainer: Mark Loney
Manager: Tony Daly
