Jan 30, 2012 | Blake Eady | 2138 views
Bantams Advance to Round 2
Cayuga Stars Bantam Reps wrapped up a tight series with St. George Generals at home Sunday advancing them to the next round of the OMHA Bantam C Preliminaries.
"Winning this series was a team effort and every member of this team contributed."
Congrats boys you made your coaches proud!
Game 1: The Cayuga Bantams began their OMHA playdowns hosting the St George Generals. The game was a hard fought battle with the Cayuga boys playing a great defensive game and limiting St. George’s scoring opportunities. The Cayuga team had a good number of scoring chances but could not find the back of the goal and so the game went into the third period 0-0. The Cayuga boys theme was to pound the rock and that is what they did. They did not give up and kept the pressure on the St George team who had great goaltending. With less than 4 minutes in the game the Cayuga Boys scored. The boys were able to hold on and the final score was 1-0. (Cayuga 2 pts St George 0 pts)
Game 2: The Cayuga team travelled to St George. The boys started off flat and St George opened the scoring 13 seconds into the game. It was a sea saw battle that went into overtime tied 3-3. The Cayuga boys despite having a big shot advantage were not able to capitalize in regulation time or on a powerplay that extended into overtime. St George regrouped and scored the overtime goal beating Cayuga 4-3 (Cayuga 2 pts St George 2pts)
Game 3: Saw St George return to Cayuga and again the score remained 0-0 after two periods. Once again the Cayuga team dominated play but was unable to break through. But in the Third period the Cayuga Boys finally broke through scoring two big goals and then hung on for a 2-0 win. (Cayuga 4 pts St George 2 pts)
Game 4: Was a return to St George and the Generals opened with the first goal of the game but the Cayuga boys responded right back with a goal of their own. Despite dominating play the Cayuga boys could not finish off the Generals and so the game went into overtime. Overtime solved nothing and so the game ended in a 1-1 tie (Cayuga 5 pts St George 3 pts)
Game 5: Back in our new arena with a chance to advance. The Generals were not going down without a fight. The St George team jumped out to a 2-0 lead. A trip back to St George seemed to be in the cards but the Cayuga boys fought hard and tied the game 2-2 but just when the momentum seemed to switch to Cayuga the Generals scored again to go up 3-2. But once again the boys fought back to tie the game and then scored to take their fist lead of the game. Cayuga was able to hang on to that lead and win the game 4-3 and the series 7 points to 3 to advance to round two against the Six Nations Bantams. (Cayuga 7 pts St George 3 pts)
Winning this series was a team effort and every member of this team contributed. This year we have had great goaltending from both Dakota Freeman and Ryan Clarke. We had a 1.6 goals against average in this round. We had strong leadership on defense from Co-Captain Jonathan Armstrong, Assistant Captain Caleb Brooker who often dominated play on the ice. Our Defense played the best hockey of their season , Austin Harrop, Daniel Martin and AP player James Tattersall all had monster efforts in this series. Our forwards were led by Co-Captain Liam Daly, Assistant Captain Alex Doucette and Ty Walters-Salvatori who scored big goals to lead this team but this team got help from everyone Tyler Loney scoring a big goal in game 5, Matt Kinnear (Assistant Captain) with strong play in both ends of the rink, Matt Berkmortel setting up an important goal in game 4, Sam Armstrong with strong play and breakaway in game 4 and Noah Palladino scoring the goal that proved to be the game 5 and series winner.
Congrats boys you made your coaches proud!
Coaches
Head Coach: Blake Eady
Assistant Coach: Tony Palladino
Trainer: Mark Loney
Manager: Tony Daly