Close start in men’s hockey league

October 1, 2015 · 0 Comments

Ron Sampson was the Caledon Senior Hockey League’s strong man last Monday night, firing three goals and four assists to lead Yale Lift Trucks to a 7-3 thrashing of Fines Ford Lincoln.
In the other games, Rutherford Global Logistics downed Jiffy Lube Oilers 7-2 and Bolton Chiropractic Centre and Heart Lake Insurance split a 4-4 game.
The Rutherford crew have the early lead in the standings after two weeks of play, but things are pretty tight so far.
Sept. 21
Yale 7, Fines Ford 3
Sampson may have found himself on the carpet at Fines Ford last week as his big night came at the expense of his employer.
Also enjoying good games for Yale were James Heenan with three assists, Bill Davis with two goals and Stefan Pacula, who notched two assists. Dan Tasson scored the other Yale goal with single assists going to Greg Twinney, Robert Masutti and Rich Petrie.
Paul Speck paced the Car Jockeys with two goals and an assist. Peter Kuchar made a splashy CSHL debut with a goal and an assist. Goaltender Vanni DiMarco eased the pain from Sampson by garnering a single assist. James Hardman and John Pallotta also had one assist each.
Rutherford 7, Jiffy Lube 2
Gary Hughes was the spark plug for Rutherford with three goals and an assist.
Also carrying a hot stick was veteran forward Scott Sinclair, who scored two goals. Jim Pitre struck for a goal and two assists while Joe Palumbo notched a goal and one assist. Gary Stewart and David Shoalts both had two assists. Single assists went to Rick Geiger, John Pitsadiotis and Bill Frolick.
Mike Lo Dico and Jeff Boyles scored for Jiffy Lube. The assists came from Dave Smith, Peter Coghill, Brian Fetterly and Mike McNamara.
Bolton Chiropractic 4 Heart Lake 4
Heart Lake fell behind 4-1 after two periods and then stormed back for the tie, led by Greg Frangakas, who potted three goals.
Rod Sinclair scored the other one for the Insurance Boys. Victor Marrelli had two assists while one each went to Ian Kerr, Brian Samuel and Frank Cirone.
Nick Taccogna led the Chiropractors with two goals and an assist with Jim Moyer chipping in a goal and two assists. Mike Shore had a goal and one assist with single assists coming from Mike Gasparini, Jim Horan and Sam Genova.
Sept. 14
All three games opening night were decided by two goals or less, with the winning goal in one coming just at the final buzzer.
CSHL rookie Pitre scored just before the clock ran out to give Rutherford a 3-2 win over Heart Lake . In the other games, Bolton Chiropractic edged Yale 4-3 and Fines Ford downed Jiffy Lube 4-2.
Fines Ford 4, Jiffy Lube 2
The line of Pallotta, Speck and John Castellucci proved to be too much for Jiffy Lube as it produced two third-period goals for the win.
Pallotta led the way with two goals and an assist while Castellucci had three assists and Speck had two. John Crossley and Hardman scored the other goals for Fines, with Gary Faultless and Dave Armstrong collecting one helper each.
Jim Rogers scored both Jiffy Lube goals with assists from Bill Doherty, Smith and Garry Hoxey.
Rutherford 3, Heart Lake 2
Rutherford blew a 2-0 lead in late in the third period, but Pitre managed to pull out the win for them with the buzzer-beater goal.
Howard Wight and Hughes assisted on the winner. Geiger and Steve Tarasco scored the other Rutherford goals. Wight finished with two assists while Hughes, Tarasco, Pitsadiotis and Frolick had one each.
Marrelli and Tony Dinis scored for Heart Lake in the third period, with assists going to Chris Spilar, Frangakas and Samuel.
Bolton Chiropractic 4, Yale 3
Gary Moss scored two goals for the Chiropractors while Moyer had two assists.
Horan notched a goal and an assist with Taccogna scoring the other goal. Single assists went to Gasparini, Genova, Bill Moyer, Bob McHardy and Ted Callighen.
Heenan, Twinney and Bruno Fracassi scored for Yale and all three goals were unassisted.