Ravens U12 end tournament with 2-1-1 record

The Essex-Southpoint Ravens U12 hockey team participated in the Belle River tournament this past weekend. The Ravens bumped up a division to AA for this tourney so they knew that it would be a good challenge to compete with some stronger competition.

On Friday morning, the Ravens’ first test was the Burlington Eagles and they skated away with a 4-1 win. Nash Feurth paced his squad scoring two goals, while Austin Goudie and Derek Dunn each added singles. Trent Chevalier earned the win in net.

On Friday night, the Ravens faced off against the Guelph Gryphons. After surviving an early onslaught from the

Gryphons, Lucas O’Neil opened the scoring midway through the opening frame. Guelph scored with 11 seconds left in the period to tie, and again with 21 seconds left in the second to take the lead. Ravens were able to skate stride-for-stride with the Gryphons and even notched the tying goal with three minutes to go in the game, which after some consultation amongst the referees, was inexplicably waved off resulting in a 2-1 loss. Chevalier was outstanding in net to keep his team in the game until the final buzzer.

On Saturday, the Ravens played the Milton Winterhawks. Dunn weaved into the offensive zone and fed Ben Liebrock four minutes in to take the lead. Milton tied the game in the second, but Feurth was able to dig the puck out of the corner and rifle his shot over the goalie’s shoulder to take the lead. Again, the Ravens scored a goal to increase the lead, but this was waved off resulting in losing valuable points.

The Winterhawks scored with three to go, resulting in a 2-2 tie.

On Saturday night the New Hamburg Huskies were the next opponent.

Fuerth and Dunn each scored two goals to lead the way while Nathan Mariuz and Kayden Cook fired in one apiece to skate away with a 6-2 victory. Chevalier, earned the win in goal but unfortunately the Ravens did not have enough total points to move on to Sunday.