This past weekend the Novice Rheo Thompson Warriors
played a home and home series against the West London ( White ) Hawks, coming
away with convincing victories both days.
Saturday had the Warriors travel to London for the first of the 2 matchups. The Hawks would strike first but Stratford would quickly answer back with a marker of their own. That was the final time the boys would find themselves trailing in the game. At the end of the second they would maintain a 4-2 lead until the Hawks would tighten the game early in the 3rd and tie the game midway through the period. Stratford would finally pull away in the last 5 minutes of the game as they added 4 quick goals to end the game with the win 8-4. The Warriors outshot their opponents by a count of 23-18 on this day.
Sunday would have West London travel to Stratford for an afternoon matchup at the Allman. The Hawks would again strike first on the day, but then were limited in their opportunities to find the net as Stratford won the shot count on this day 23-12. The Warriors had a strong 2nd period tallying 4 goals to their initial marker in the 1st leaving the 2nd period with Stratford leading 5-1. The 3rd period they would add 2 more for a final score of Stratford 7 and West London 3. Jakob Strahm and Carter Keating split the duties protecting the net, each playing a full game and making some stellar saves keeping the momentum on the Warriors side. Finding their way to the scoresheet for the weekend games, earning either a goal or an assist was Hudsyn Chaput, Maddyx Chaput, Evan Hughes, Nate VanBakel, Caellum Parsons, Piers Murray, Caden Ollson, Jack Haines, Owen Blackburn and Jake Schultz. The weekend wins helped the Warriors jump Oakridge to gain sole possesion of 2nd in the playoff Round Robin play, with 4 games remaining.
Next action for the boys will be a tournament in St.Thomas this weekend, where their division will host 24 teams competing at the 2009 age group.