Dec 28, 2011 | dbaughman | 1286 views
Perseverance in Petrolia
Neither 60 minutes of driving snow nor 25 minutes of futile offense could break the Lambeth Lancer resolve, as the Major Midgets stuck with their game plan enroute to a 5-1 victory over Waterford.
A frantic forecheck on the part of the Waterford visitors, combined with a referee that assessed 14 penalty minutes over the first 25 minutes of the game against Lambeth, combined to keep the Lancers off the scoreboard over the first 2 frames. While the Lancers were yawning and rubbing the sleep out of their eyes in the first period, Waterford enjoyed territorial advantage and most of the puck possession.
Slowly in the second period the Lancers were jousted into urgency, and despite sporting the vistors an extra 6 minutes of power play time the boys from Beattie Street were unlucky to be down 1-0 at the end of the second. At the change after the second Ian Gough emplored his skaters to persevere with their attack. "One goal boys, one goal, that's all we need" Ian observed.
No fewer than 33 seconds later Kyle Mackay scored the first of his natural hat trick over a 5 minute span. All 3 goals were inspired by the Gumby-like moves of Jarvis Millard who used his rubbery frame to extract pucks from improbable positions to serve up the comeback. Millard punctuated his Go-Go Gadget performance by roofing the puck on an unassisted effort to put the Lancers up 4-1 with 2 minutes remaining.
A depleted blue line demanded that Dylan Nash help boster the defensive corp. Dylan's solid efforts throughout the game were underscored by a blistering one-timer right off the draw won by Zach Waller to complete the scoring and salt away a 5-1 victory that nobody could have predicted after the first 25 minutes of play.
Lambeth continues it's quest in the Silver Stick tournament on the 29th at 4:30pm against the defending SS champions from Mt. Brydges.