Mooretown Flags vs Wheatley
Home  Opener
September 19, 2009

The Mooretown Flags came up with a Home Town Win in their home opener against Wheatley with a final score of 5 - 3.

Reid Ranking went the distance in net for the Flags making a total of 31 saves in the win. Netminder for Wheatley was Laine Parent with 37 saves.

Rookie Greg Babcock opened the scoring with his his first goal of season at 3:12.  Assisting were Travis Harper and Alex Dawson.  Wheatley answered back at 4:33 to even things up.  Jordan Carneval scored for Wheatley.  At the 17:06 mark Brett Thompson scored to take the Mooretown 2 - 1 lead heading into the second period.  Team captain Jordan Pennesi and Alex Dawson assisted on the goal.

With just :58 ticks off the clock Pennesi gave Mooretown the 3 - 1 lead assisted by Mike Burns.  Before the period ended Wheatley fought back and the scored was tied at the end 3 - 3.  Jesse Martin and Josh Carneval (PP) scored for Wheatley at 7:25 and 19:05.

Mooretown's Darby McKinnon from Spencer Lightfoot scored the winning goal at 6:53.  The two teams battled back and forth and with the Flags short one man Spencer Lightfoot scored shorthanded to secure the win at 18:56.

• Mooretown went 0 for 11 in powerplay opportunities - Wheatley went 1 for 5

• Mooretown took a total time of 18 penalty minutes on 9 infractions, Wheatley's total was 48 minutes on 12 infractions.  (Wheatley took major penalties in the third including Abuse of an Official.

• Mooretown earned all three stars of the night with Jordan Pennesi (3pts) taking the first star, Spencer Lightfoot second star and Alex Dawson third star.

• Next up: - Road game to Wallaceburg on Wednesday September 23 - game time 7:30.  Next home game on Sat Sept 26 against Belle River - game time 7:30 pm at the Moore Sports Complex.