The Holloway Automotive Minor Atoms continued to roll this past weekend with 2 home wins in the "AA" Constellation schedule. The boys used their finalist showing at the Barrie Tournament last weekend(Nov.24-26) to springboard them back into some excellent league play.
Saturday evening at home the Warriors prevailed 4-2 over Sarnia. The boys erased a 2-1 deficit with 3 unanswered goals in the 3rd period. Brenzil and Hish(GWG) had 2 goals apiece while Rylan had a pair of helpers. More impressive than that was the teams continued adherence to defensive hockey as they frustrated Sarnia all night with aggressive pinching Defence. The D pairs of Kibedi and White-Roy, Bauld and Holloway and Pars and Flanny controlled the offensive blueline and made it very difficult for Sarnia to get out of their own end and carry any momentum into our end. Walters was solid in the pipes, especially in the 3rd, and propelled his team to mount the comeback.
Sunday afternoon in Stratford was a highly anticipated matchup with LJK Green. Two undefeated teams and first place on the line to the winner of this game had fans on the edge of their seats even during the warmup. Once again an aggressive pinching Stratford D had the game clearly in our favor throughout the first but the Jr. Knights did break free once for a goal and led 1-0 after the opening period. The next 20 minutes of hockey belonged to the Warriors as they built a 3-1 lead and frustrated the Knight players & fans. DeBoeck, Brenzil and AP-Maddyx Chaput tallied to give us a commanding 3-1 lead while Bowlsey was fantastic in the net making several point-blank saves. However, the Knights would not quit and pressed the Warriors with 2 goals of their own in the 2nd half of the 3rd period. With 2:58 left on the clock we had a 3-3 tie.....NOT FOR LONG......on the ensuing faceoff Colston picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone, carried into the Knights end and with 5 players all over him still managed to get a back-hander into the net. This seemed to kill any London momentum and even with the goalie out and an extra attacker on the ice the Knights never threatened the Warriors again. A well deserved 4-3 win for the home side and a first place record of 3-0-2 in the Constellation division.