Intense match ups in Bolton Senior Hockey League

December 4, 2015 · 0 Comments

By Eric Jay
The Bolton Senior Hockey League continues to prove that age is but a number, with another three high-scoring games put away in the books Nov. 11.
The puck dropped for the first game at 8 p.m. and Oriana Financial took this one, exploding with three goals in the third period to beat 365 Integrated 6-4. The second game quickly demonstrated that it wasn’t a good night for Four Corners Bakery Eatery, as they were crushed 8-1 by St. Louis Bar and Grill’s talented offence and rock solid defence. It wasn’t hard to stay awake for the late game with Neipage Construction and Inside Out Family Chiropractic combining for a total of 10 goals. Inside Out came on top of this one, winning it 7-3.
Oriana 6, 365 Integrated 4
The 365 crew struck early in this one, scoring two quick goals just more than a minute apart from Fausto Della Rovere and Fab Iafano.
Brother Frank Iafano added to 365’s lead, making it 3-0. Luckily, Jim Macdonald was able to stop the bleeding for Oriana with a beautiful wrist shot top shelf over 365’s net minder. Al Daniels added to 365’s, lead bringing them up to 4-1. Then, the game took a complete turn. Incredibly, Oriana scored a total of five unanswered goals thanks to Martin Brassard, Walter Pursley, Paul Abtman, Macdonald and Mark DeSilva.
It was an unexpected finish to an intense match up.
St. Louis 8, Four Corners 1
St. Louis was the first to put the pen to the goal sheet, thanks to Gus Koursousis dishing a sweet pass to Jody Spagnol, who made no mistake, sniping it passed Four Corners’ net minder Ronnie Miller.
Brad Frail was able to tie up the game late in the first with an impressive individual effort. After the puck dropped for the second period, it was all St. Louis’ offence from there, scoring four goals in one period from Koursousis with two back-to-back, Shawn Kehoe and Spagnol. Matt Grguric added to their already massive lead in the third and Koursousis was able to complete yet another hat trick for the season. He can’t be stopped.
Inside Out 7, Niepage 3
Niepage lit up the scoreboard early in this one.
Darryl Bailey made a sweet pass right on the tape of Sal Iozzo’s stick, who released a blistering slap shot glove side past Inside Out’s net minder Greg Harrison, giving Niepage the early lead. The remainder of the first period was a tight grind with both teams getting their chances, but strong defensive play and goaltending kept the pucks out of the nets.
Early in the second, Inside Out’s determination to tie the game up paid off. Mark Jay got things going making a perfect cross ice pass to Greg Frangakis who took advantage of the space he made and beat Niepage’s net minder Mike Rocchi and popped it over his pad to knot things up.
Inside Out kept things going, scoring four more in the second from Koursousis, Steve Devins, Nick Morra and Dave Merrick. Niepage was only able to come back with one from Bailey in the second, but Inside Out had already taken a commanding lead being up 5-2 to start the third. Rob Figliano got one for Niepage early in the third, but Inside Out countered it with one of their own from Scott Andrews. Less than half a period later, Andrews threw salt on the wound scoring his second of the game and enlarging the goal differential.
Nov. 4
The previous week, things start to really heat up as the weather cooled down.
Each game reached explosive numbers. St. Louis took the first game, lighting up the score sheet against Inside Out, winning 11-5. In the second game, Niepage Construction was the offensive threat who came on top in a dominating 9-3 victory over 365 Integrated. The late game featured Oriana Financial as the victor, winning 7-3 over Four Corners.
St. Louis 11, Inside Out 5
St. Louis struck first, scoring three unanswered goals early from Steve Westergard, Paul Parete and Milo Naccarato.
Morra and Merrick of Inside Out did what they could to stop the bleeding, scoring two in the second. But St. Louis exploded in the period with six goals, from Naccarato, Westergard, Dennis Blackman and a hat-trick from that slippery Steve Nelson. By then, the damage had been done. Inside Out fought back with three more in the third from Andrews, Bret Smith and a second from Merrick. St. Louis rounded their tally with two more passing Inside Out’s net minder.
Niepage 9, 365 Integrated 3
Figliano was an offensive force to be reckoned with in this match up, earning him a hat trick and matching it with three assists.
Niepage took the lead right out of the gate, scoring three unanswered goals in the first from Sean Devereaux and two from Figliano. The 365 side cut the lead down to two in the second, thanks to Sammy Sarris’s nifty goal from in tight. Niepage came right back with three more in less than three minutes to put the game out of reach with goal coming from Steve Canderan, Devereaux and Darryl Bond. The Integrated crew did what they could to come back, scoring two more in the third from Frank Iafano and Sarris, but Niepage added three in the final frame to take this one.
Oriana 7, Four Corners 3
This was actually the closest match up Wednesday night, until Oriana pulled away in the third period.
MacDonald started the scoring with two in the first to take an early lead. After falling back 3-0, with a goal from Oriana’s Dave Wonfor early in the second, Four Corners got it close with two goals from Mark Bayley and Frail, making it 3-2 at the end of the second period. Oriana erupted in the third, scoring four goals, with two from Dave Brodie and singles added by MacDonald and Wonfor. Four Corners could only answer to one of them, from Bobby Attwell.