Busy Chiefs take two of three

The Six Nations Chiefs are one game above .500 after winning two of three games played last week in the OLA Major Series. They hand onto second place as of Tuesday, June 24th, two points behind Peterborough whom they will play twice this coming weekend in a home-and-home series. Photo by Jim Windle
The Six Nations Chiefs are one game above .500 after winning two of three games played last week in the OLA Major Series. They hand onto second place as of Tuesday, June 24th, two points behind Peterborough whom they will play twice this coming weekend in a home-and-home series. Photo by Jim Windle

SIX NATIONS – The Major Series Six Nations Chiefs got back on track this past weekend with a pair of wins after loosing 15-9 to the Lakers in Peterborough Thursday night. Wins against Waterloo and Oakville bounced the Chiefs back into second place, two points behind Peterborough and two points ahead of Brooklin.

Sunday evening in Kitchener-Waterloo, the Chiefs were lucky to escape with the two points, by way of an 8-7 win. Six Nations built up a 5-0 lead over the Kodiaks with goals scored by Randy Staats, Roger Vyse, AP player Vaughn Harris, Rob Marshall and Kasey Beirnes after the first period but almost let it slip away.

Mitch Wilde and Corey Fowler notched powerplay goals for the Kodiaks in the second period before Cody Jamieson and Stephen Keogh capitalized on two powerplay opportunities of their own to finish the second frame with the Chiefs ahead 7-2.

The teams traded early third period goals with Jeff Shattler doing the honours for Six Nations. But halfway through the third, the Chiefs tank went dry giving the Kodiaks an open door to get back in the game, which they did.
Dhane Smith, and Jordan Critch both scored two on Brandon Miller in the second half of the period leaving the Chiefs hanging on as the clock ran out on the KW comeback.

Saturday night it was the Chiefs who needed the come from behind win over the Oakville Rock in Oakville. Jamieson scored first with an unassisted goal at the 3-minute mark. Oakville responded quickly with a Shayne Adams goal scored 19 seconds later and Stephan Leblanc gave the Rock a 2-1 lead after one period of play.

Jesse Gamble tied the game at 2-2 assisted by Jamieson 3:01 into the second period, but the Rock accounted for the next three to open a 5-2 lead after two periods.

The Chiefs turned the tables on Oakville in third while Evan Kirk boarded up the net at the other end. Shattler scored at 3:29 of the final frame assisted by Jamieson and Craig Point. He scored again at 6:28, this time, unassisted. Jamieson added another to make it at 6-5 from Rob Marshall and Kirk at 13:59, and Harris scored the winner at 17:33 from Vyse and Jamieson, who earned five points to lead the Chiefs offense.

Nick Rose was sensational in the Oakville net turning aside 47 shots on goal but could not hold the fort any longer and took the loss despite his fine play.

A string of six unanswered Lakers goals in the second half of the second period contributed to last Thursday’s 15-9 loss in Peterborough. It was 4-4 after 20 minutes and 7-6 for Six Nations at the 8:15 mark of the period. The Chiefs got first period goals from Shattler, Keogh, Randy Staats, and Craig Point. Keogh and Shattler, with two, netted second period goals for Six Nations before something suddenly went wrong. The Chiefs defense got caught several times out of position and Kirk took a siesta.

The Chiefs were down 12-7 when the third period started. Mark Steenhaus made it 13-7 at 1:56 before Jon Sullivan scored a powerplay goal for the Chiefs from Point and Vyse followed by a shorthander scored by Kasie Barnes at 9:01.

Steenhaus popped in his fifth goal of the game at 14:31 and Arron Wilson completed the scoring for Peterborough at 15:37.

This week’s Chiefs games include two more shot at the Lakers starting Thursday night, in Peterborough, and returning to the ILA in Six Nations Territory at 7 pm, Saturday, June 28th.

 

 

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