Mooretown Flags
Gives one Away
Pat
Brethauer September 29, 2012
Mooretown, On - The
Mooretown Flags
hosted the
Wallaceburg Lakers
on Saturday in Great
Lakes Jr C Hockey
League action and
gave up a 3 - 0 lead
to take an eventual
6 - 5 loss.
Matt Brandon opened
the scoring just a minute and :33 seconds into the
period on a power play. Wallaceburg received a
bench minor for too many men. Andrew Sokol
from Rile Roberts scored the second goal at 16:47
and Travis Mull from Sokol and Roberts added the
third at 18:32.
Second period saw
Jeff Nolfo do damage as he scored three consecutive
goals for the Lakers at 13:31, 14:15 and 15:25, the
third was on a power play. Mike Burns regained
the lead for the Flags but that was short lived as
Jake Carter scored on another power play to tie
things up heading into the third period.
In the third
Wallaceburg took the lead for the first time at 7:03
by Chris Taylor. Action continue and ten
minutes later Sam Jasmin widened the Lakers lead.
In the last minute of play with Wallaceburg killing
a power play, Mooretown pulled their goalie for the
two man attack. Mike Burns scored his second
of the night on that attack to narrow the score to
one, but time ran out giving Wallaceburg the game.
Wallaceburg outshot
the Flags 62 - 30. Brandon Johnson got the
start for the Flags allowing four goals and making
31 saves. Braden Palocz ended the game
allowing two goals with 25 saves. Devine Cove
earned the win for the Lakers with a total of 25
saves.
Both teams went two
for seven on the power play.
Wallaceburg Jeff
Nolfo earned the first star of the night, Mike Burns
of the Flags was selected second star and Lucais
Meyskens of Wallaceburg was selected third.
Mooretown is now 1 -
3 - 1 for the season, Wallaceburg is 4 - 1 - 0.
Mooretown &
Wallaceburg are both at home on Wednesday October 3
when the Flags host Kingsville at 8:00 pm at
he Moore Recreation Centre and the Lakers will host
Essex at 7:30 in Wallaceburg. Both teams are
off Thanksgiving weekend.
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