Mooretown Flags Downed at Home
December 20, 2015
COMMUNITY NEWS
It's been a busy
week for the Mooretown Flags as
they hosted the Lakeshore
Canadiens on Saturday night in
their third game of the week
where they came up short and
suffered a 4 - 2 loss.
Lakeshore took a
2 - 0 lead after the first
period with Dylan Kolic and JJ
Percy lighting the lamp for the
Canadiens.
Jakob Reeves from
Kyle Smith opened the scoring
for the Flags at 1:19 into the
second period only to have the
Canadiens answer back at 2:44
when Austin Jennings who was
left wide open and skated in
beat Flags netminder Brandon
Johnson. The score would
remain the same to end the
period with the Flags trailing 3
- 1.
Third period
action saw captain Matt Brandon
hit the mark early at 2:53 to
narrow the gap to 3 - 2.
The two teams went end to end
and as the clock was winding
down, the Canadiens took a
penalty and the Flags emptied
their net giving the Flags a 6 -
3 man advantage. However a
mishandled puck at the blue line
and it was picked up and fired
in to the empty net by Jarrett
Tazzman that secured the win for
Lakeshore.
Lakeshore outshot
the Flags by 30 - 29.
The Flags took
one penalty in the game giving
the Canadiens one power play
opportunity which they were
denied on. On the Flags
side they were scoreless on six
power play opportunities.
The Flags are now
16-12-2-0 as they return to
action tonight for their 4th
game of the week traveling to
Blenheim to take the second
place Blades (18-9-1-0).
