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Saturday,
December 13/08 vs. Dresden
Kings Maintain
First Place with Win Over Flags
Final Score:
Dresden - 4 Mooretown - 2
by Deb Lawrence
Despite the snowy
and wintery weather just over 200 people took in
the game, including a small but vocal group for
the visiting Jr. Kings. Tonight's game featured
the two teams battling for first place in the
North Division. This evening's sponsor was
Micor Sports. In goal for Dresden was
Eric Steinman and between the pipes for the
Flags loss was Kyle Washer.
The game started
with the team both a bit tentative in their play
with each of them taking two penalties each
before a goal was finally scored. With Mike
Burns of Mooretown off at 13:40 for roughing, a
shot slipped over the shoulder of Washer and
into the net for the first marker of the game.
Scoring it at 14:43 was Scott Gawne from
Drew Poissant and Dan Hyatt. The
Flags applied some pressure and were rewarded
with open shots at net but could not find the
right angle or get a man in possession of the
puck. Instead it was Dresden notching their
second of the period with 1:31 remaining off the
stick of Jeremy Park from Ryan Cook
and Scott Gawne. Shots on goal: Dresden
- 16 Mooretown - 14. The Jr Kings were 1 for
2 with the man advantage and Mooretown was 0 for
2 on the power play this period.
In the second
stanza the Jr Kings came out flying and within
the first two minutes rang shots twice off the
left of post of Washer. Not to be outdone the
Flags rang one off the far side post near the
4:20 mark and this was as close as anyone came
to scoring. Dresden did have a good 2 on 1
breakout and raced up the ice but upon trying to
make the shot found it battered away by one of
the sprawling "D" of the Flags. Shots on goal:
Dresden - 15/31 Mooretown - 14/28. The Jr Kings
were 0 for 2 with the man advantage and
Mooretown was 0 for 1 on the power play this
period.
The Flags began
this period of play with a man short as Clark
MacPherson took a roughing minor with 22 seconds
remaining in the second but didn't have to kill
the entire 1:38 as Dresden's Taylor Pickering
was called for holding 53 seconds into the
period. This game the Flags a power play and
they made good on it. Lighting the lamp red for
the home team at the 1:39 mark was Cody Chute
with assists picked up by Adam Teschke
and Travis Mullen. Then a shot on the Jr
Kings goalie was made and the initial save was
made but the puck bounced up in a very strange
manner and flipped over his shoulder and into
the net. Scoring the goal to notch the game at
two apiece was Dave Hutchinson and
helpers went to Travis Mullen and
Donny Bowling. A bit of scrum led to
offsetting roughing minors at the 7:42 mark as
the game got a bit chippy and intense. Then at
8:40 a bit of a tilt took place. Apparently an
initial slashing minor was going to be called to
Mike Burns of the Flags but exception to the
slash was taken by Jim Rouse of Dresden who
initiated a fight with Burns. Rouse received a
minor for instigator (and will be missing from
the next game his team plays because of it), and
both received the usual 5 minute major for
fighting along with a game misconduct. Dresden
began to press for the go-ahead goal, putting
plenty of bodies and traffic in front of Washer
- and it paid off at the 16:15 mark with what
would prove to be the game winning goal. It was
scored by Joel Stepniak from Kyle Vink
and Joe Deboer. With under a minute to
go and the play deep in Dresden's end, Washer of
the Flags was making his way to the bench for an
extra attacker but never got there as the Jr
Kings got possession of the puck. Washer
scrambled quickly to return to the net but by
the time he drew near the puck was already in
the net salting the win for Dresden. As the
final buzzer sounded, tilt number two took place
with the Dresden player getting a head start in
the removal of his hockey uniform. Shots on
goal: Dresden - 8/39 Mooretown - 10/38.
Dresden had not power play chances this period
and were 1 for 4 in the game. Mooretown was 0
for 1 with the man advantage this period and
were also 1 for 4 in the game.
3 Stars:
1st - Scott
Gawne (DRE) -- 2g 1a
2nd - Travis
Mullen (MRT) -- 2a
3rd - Drew
Poissant (DRE) -- 2a
The Flags
close out the month of December with a road game
on Wednesday the 17th in Wallaceburg, a 7:30
puck drop against the Lakers.
On Saturday
the 20th the Alvinston Flyers pay a visit to the
Mooretown Sports Complex. It's a 7:30 start.
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