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Dec 05, 2019 | Tim Davison | 149 views
Minor PeeWee's Sneak out of Woolwich with the W
Wednesday night, the Minor PeeWees traveled to St. Jacobs to resume their regular season play, after a two-week break for tournament action, to face the Woolwich Wildcats. The Wildcats, sitting just behind the Gryphons in the Tri-County standings were trying close the gap with Guelph and avenge a 7-0 loss the last time the teams met.

The Junior Gryphons carried over their strong play from the weekend's nation cup play into the start of the game and outplayed the Wildcats in the first half of the game. Six and a half minutes into the contest, the Gryphons had a faceoff deep in the Wildcat zone. Off the faceoff win, Vid Peteranac fired a low hard shot on net that was stopped by the Wildcat netminder. However Conner Laskowski jumped on the loose puck in front, shoveled it to the side of the net where Peyton Smith fired the shot behind into the back of the net. The first period closed out 1-0 Gryhphons.

The score would remain that way until almost half way through the second when Peyton Markwood would bury his first of the game, again off a great shot from the point. This time it was Nate Taylor who won a battle along the boards and fed the puck to Oliver Fletcher at the point. Like the first goal, the shot was stopped, but the goalie couldn't control the rebound and Markwood hammered the puck between the goalies legs for the 2-0 lead. 

Roughly 3 minutes later, the Gryphons scored one of their nicest goals of the year. Again off a faceoff, the puck was pushed back to the defence off a scrambled draw, this time Michael Kusiac pushed the puck across the blue-line to Peteranac, who smartly fed the puck low to Caleb Davison to the Woolwich's goalie's right side. Davison spotted a streaking Smith coming down the opposite side of the crease and with a perfect pass hit his stick and Smith fired the puck top shelf.

That would be as good as it got for the Gryphons. Early in the third the Wildcats got one back and desperate for more, they continued to apply pressure throughout the period. After many close calls, they scored their second on the power-play with only 19 seconds left in the game. Thankfully for the Gryphons, that would be the last scoring chance of the game for the Wildcats, and the buzzer would sound a few seconds later for the 3-2 win. 

The Junior Gryphons return to the ice on Saturday afternoon against Flamborough-Dundas.