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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
U12 Ravens win International Silver Stick
The Essex-Southpoint Ravens, 2022 Silver Stick champions. Kneeling in front are Trent Chevalier and Kevin Ondic. Standing, from left, are Jamie Thomas, Nash Fuerth, Austin Goudie, Ben Liebrock, Coach Tony Youssef, Isaiah George’s, Trainer Kevin Cook, Joseph McLeod, AJ Youssef, Lucas O’Neil, Nathan Mariuz, Brayden Foster, Jonathan Recker, Maxim Pyne, Kayden Cook, Tyler Thomas, Derek Dunn, Coach Dylan Impens. Photo submitted
The Essex-Southpoint Ravens U12 hockey team travelled to Newmarket last week and came home as Silver Stick champions. The opening game saw the Ravens come out a little rusty as they faced off against the Burlington Eagles, but eventually they found their way and skated away with a 4-0 win. Lucas O’Neil led the way with a pair of goals, while Austin Goudie and Derek Dunn added singles. Trent Chevalier earned the shutout. Game two had the locals face the Centre Wellington
Fusion. It was all business in this tilt as the Ravens iced an 8-1 victory. Goudie paced the attack, notching a hat trick, with singles going to Kayden Cook, Nash Fuerth, Maxim Pyne, AJ Youssef and Dunn. Kevin Ondic earned the win in goal. Next up for the Ravens was the host team, the Newmarket Renegades. This contest was completely one-sided as the Ravens breezed to an 8-0 win while not allowing a single shot on net. Fuerth sniped a hat trick, and O’Neil, Ben Liebrock,
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Pyne, Jonathan Recker, Joseph McLeod added singles. Chevalier earned his second shutout of the tourney. On Monday morning the Ravens continued round-robin play against the Leaside Flames. By now the team was playing like a well-oiled machine and easily won this contest 8-1. Goudie fired in a pair, with O’Neil, Liebrock, Pyne, Fuerth, Isaiah Georges and Nathan Marius rounding out the scoring. Ondic secured the win. Monday night saw the Ravens face off against the Welland Tigers in the semi-final. Only 40 seconds into the game, Youssef won a face-off back to Fuerth, who
weaved to the slot and roofed his snapshot to take the lead. In the second, Dunn found a loose puck and his shot found the fivehole to double the lead. Welland scored next to get within one. Two minutes into the third, Tyler Thomas took a shot from out front that was blocked, but Cook found the carom and ripped his shot in off the post. Two minutes later, Fuerth dug the puck out of the corner and wired his wrister bar down to put the Ravens up by three. Brayden Foster then passed to Liebrock, who hit O’Neil in full stride and he split the defence
and wired his wrister five hole to increase the lead. Welland added a goal to inch closer, but that was as close as they would get as Essex-Southpoint skated to a well-earned 5-2 win. Chevalier secured the win with key saves throughout. On Tuesday, March 15, the Ravens were up against the Sarnia Sting in the championship game. It was a very spirited contest with both teams taking a few penalties as each side tried to force themselves on the other. With 6:31 left in the second period, Fuerth stopped a clearing attempt and ripped his shot on net. His shot was stopped, but the rebound landed on the stick of Youssef who made
U13 Blue finishes playoffs tied with Amherstburg Southpoint U13LL Blue played two playoff games on the weekend. The first game against Essex Green finished decidedly in Southpoint’s favour, with a score of 7-1. Jackson Weil passed the puck from the corner to Gavin Butiniello, in front of the Essex net, who fired the puck in to give Southpoint a 1-0 lead. Butiniello scored the second as he cut across the ice, took a slap shot from 10m out and put the puck in the top corner. Brady Walker assisted on the goal. Weil and Butiniello teamed up on the third goal as Butiniello completed his hattrick. The Caps went up 4-0
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no mistake and tapped it home to take the lead. The Ravens controlled most of the play and held a strong shot advantage, but the score remained 1-0 until late into the third. With 5:51 remaining, while short-handed, Kayden Cook tipped the puck to Derek Dunn who skated wide past the defence and rifled his shot to increase the lead. Sarnia was unable to muster any sort of comeback as the Ravens watched the final seconds tick away and they swarmed their goalie in a well-deserved 2-0 victory. Trent Chevalier stopped everything thrown his way as he earned his third shutout.
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when Brent Pimental passed the puck from the point to Jack Williams down low in the corner. Jack sent the puck to Landon Carlini, in front of the net, and he promptly fired it home. Pimental then scored the fifth goal from the top of the circle. Butiniello got his fourth while short-handed, and Carlini scored his second to finish the scoring. Essex had scored early in the third period to ruin Ty Gould’s bid for a shutout. The score looked good for Southpoint, but the team made a number of defensive errors, like errant passes in their own end and forwards not coming back to help their D. The locals then dropped a 3-1 decision to Amherstburg in game two of the playoffs. Southpoint’s lone goal was by Butiniello, who carried the puck in from his own blue line and backhanded it into the top corner. Amherstburg and Southpoint finished the playoffs tied and will meet again in the Day of Champs Tournament, which will be held at the Nature Fresh Complex.
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