U12 Ravens take two

The Essex-Southpoint Ravens U12 hockey team played a pair of games this past weekend.

On Friday night, Oct. 22, in Essex, the Ravens hosted the Riverside Rangers and came out flat in a sloppy game.

After falling behind early, Lucas O’Neil was able tie the score by banging in a rebound off a shot by AJ Youssef. Thirty seconds later, Derek Dunn retrieved a carom from a Kayden Cook shot and buried his chance to take the lead.

On the very next shift, Nash Fuerth took a nifty pass from Brayden Foster and rifled his shot in low blocker.

Riverside scored next to inch closer, but Jonathan Recker chased down a cleared puck and made a nice deke to slip the puck into an open cage. A few minutes later, Feurth slid a pass across the slot to Foster, who one-timed it home to increase the lead.

Finally, late in the period, Austin Goudie kept battling on a loose puck, eventually poking it home for a 6-2 win.

On Saturday, Oct. 23 in Leamington, the Ravens were host to the Belle River Canadiens.

After a back and forth period, Kayden Cook slapped in a rebound off of a Nash Feurth shot to open the scoring.

Midway through the second frame, Lucas O’Neil found AJ Youssef in the slot and he made no mistake going bar down to increase the lead.

The Ravens gave up a goal while on a power play, but 20 seconds later Jonathan Recker replied by intercepting a clearing attempt and firing his shot in through traffic.

Midway through the third, while on a two-on-one, Tyler Thomas feathered a nice pass across to Youssef, who wired his shot high glove to go up by three. Finally, with three to go, Derek Dunn sent a pass across to Cook, who buried his second chance off his own rebound to seal the 5-1 victory.