Sarniasports.com

Archives Baseball Bowling Football Hockey 3 on 3 Hockey Lacrosse Soccer Lambton College-Basketball

Legionnaires Black and White Camp Action
August 24, 2015
COMMUNITY NEWS

Action around the nets was furious all afternoon as Team Black and Team White
played to a 4-4 tie in the annual Sarnia Legionnaires Black-and-White intersquad game.
Submitted photo - Anne Tigwell/Sarnia Legionnaires

By Dan McCaffery

Head coach Mark Davis says he will face “a lot of hard decisions” as he attempts to finalize the roster for his Sarnia Legionnaires.

Davis made the comment after the Jr. 'B' hockey club wrapped up its two-day training camp over the weekend at the Clearwater Arena.

"It was a heck of a camp,” the veteran bench boss said. “The black-and-white (intersquad) game was very good, with a good tempo. It was very competitive, with everybody battling for spots.”

More than 60 players were on hand for the camp but only 31 remained by Monday morning.

Davis said further cuts will be made as the team holds six exhibition games in coming weeks. When the regular season opens, he hopes to be down to 23 players.

The annual black-and-white game, which featured the top 40 players left in camp, ended in a 4-4 draw.

One of the prettiest goals of the afternoon came off the stick of Ryan Lyle of Team White, who caught the top corner, stick side, to tie the contest at 3-3 in the third period.

Other Team White marksmen included Alec Dekoning, Jarret Marks and Joey Zappa.

The best player on the ice may have been Team Black's Ryan Trottier, who scored a first period goal and dominated proceedings whenever he was on the ice.

Other offensive stars for Team Black included Zach Vanderwal, who put his side ahead 4-3 with a little over five minutes left in the game, Brock Perry, Austin Bottrell, Zach Vanderwal and Nicholas Burgess.

The match was played before a large crowd at Clearwater's red rink.