Sports

Silver Stick and a bus trip for the peewee Jets

December 2, 2015

Friday Nov. 20 the Vito’s Pizzeria peewee Jets started out the Silver Stick weekend with an evening game versus Kanata. This was an extremely tough team; the boys were unable to get past their goalie resulting in a final score of 6-0 for Kanata. Saturday morning was an extremely early game versus the Ennismore Eagles, both teams were equally matched, solid goaltending by Ben Landry resulted in a 4-4 tie for this game. Early Saturday afternoon we were matched up with the Frontenac Flyers. From the face-off the team played a strong game! Solid defence by Connor Sobry, Jonathon Young, Tanner Potts and Trevor McDowell and strong goaltending by Phillip Cannon ended the game 4-1 with the Jets coming out on top. Unfortunately we didn’t make it into Sunday’s finals although the Jets played extremely hard all weekend we were one point short of the mark.
The peewee Jets travelled by bus to Norwood Friday, Nov. 27 to play the Hornets. The Jets opened the scoring early with a great cut back and shot by Colson West assisted by Ryker Huygens. Phillip Cannon was on his game holding the Hornets off the scoreboard early. A super pass from Owen Fergusson to Keegan Anderson adds another goal to make it 2-0. A breakout play practiced the night before pays off when Trevor McDowell chips out a pass off the boards to Desi Davies making it 3-0. A late goal by the Hornets ends the first period 3-1.
A short-handed goal by the Hornets brings them one goal closer making it a sit on the edge of your seat game. Holding the blue line defence Jonathon Young passes the puck to Keegan Anderson who slides it up to Owen Fergusson making it 4-2. The Hornets kept buzzing and didn’t go away scoring their third goal making it a one-goal differential again. Solid forechecking by Gavin Plunkett puts Owen Fergusson in the right spot to put in the Jets fifth goal of the game assisted by Keegan Anderson.
The Jets started the third period short-handed but solid defence prevailed. A Bancroft penalty at the 10-minute mark cost the Jets this time, it was within one goal again, 5-4. Once again it was solid forechecking that pays off allowing Cody Switzer to put in Bancroft’s last goal unassisted making it 6-4 for the Jets.
The Jets came out flying Saturday night against the Napanee Stars opening the scoring with some solid centre ice pressure. Desi Davies assisted by Cody Switzer put in a goal in the first two minutes of the game. Within a minute a quick pass up from Connor Sobry from Keegan Anderson to Davies puts the Jets up by two with a top shelf goal. The bigger and more physical Stars banged in a rebound to make it a one-goal game. After another scramble in front of our goalie, Napanee slides another one pass Phillip Cannon in net, the game is tied 2-2. The Stars weren’t finished with this period yet their Captain skated over centreline and let a rocket shot go that eluded Phillip, the stars are ahead 3-2 going into the second.
A power play goal scored by Colson West after a sweet move to gain the zone by Fergusson ties the game early in the period for Bancroft. The Jets continue to pressure, which paid off when a scramble in front of the net resulted in a goal scored by Ryker Huygens assisted by Colson West and Owen Fergusson. The Stars tie the game late in the second with a one-man advantage after a Bancroft penalty. The game was back and forth with both teams having scoring chances but it was an even strength goal by Trevor McDowell who slipped it into the offensive zone assisted by Owen Fergusson and Keegan Anderson to make it 5-4 for the Jets. The Stars Captain fires another rocket from the blue line with only 20 seconds left in the third period resulting in a hard fought 5-5 tie game.
The peewee team travels to Stirling this Saturday and takes on the Loyalist Jets Sunday on home ice at 3.
Submitted by Norm McDowell