Annual Earlybird Tom Ogle Memorial Tournament
May 8 - 9, 2010

Bluewater Thunder U11's faced off against the Chatham Attack in the first game of the Bluewater tournament this past weekend and came away with a convincing 4-0 win.  Bluewaters Matt Paquette scored early in the first half on a rebound off of a Diego DaSilva shot.  Nicholas Iacobelli then increased the lead to 2-0 when he buried home a low shot to the lower corner.  Stefan Mallozzi was forced to make a couple of good saves to keep the halftime score at 2-0.  The second half started with a goal by Chris Dedecker on a head ball to the middle of the net.  Iacobelli finished off the scoring when he took a pass from Patrick Spenner and buried his second goal of the game.

Bluewater then faced off against the Oakridge Fire in the second game of the day and came away with a 1-0 victory to go to 2 wins and 1 loss.  Both teams had plenty of chances in the first half with the Oakridge goalie making some spectacular saves as did Bluewaters Stefan Mallozzi.  Early in the 2nd half, Matthew Paquette scored a nice goal after some nice passing from Daniel Cservik and Zachary Matias to give Bluewater the lead.  Bluewater then closed the door on any Oakridge offence to preserve the victory.  Michael Petrucci, Bennett Vani and Burke Roszell played a very solid defensive game.

Bluewater then faced off against Middlesex United on Sunday morning and lost the game 4-0.  The loss combined with an Oakridge victory over Chatham put Middlesex United and Oakridge in the U11 finals later that day.  The tiebreaker went Oakridge's way by virtue of 1 goal.  Tough way to lose out, but overall a good opening tournament for the Thunder.