OHSWEKEN – It was another full afternoon of Six Nations Minor Hockey Saturday at the Gaylord Powless Arena. In our feature games, the Six Nations PeeWee LL’s were demolished by the Tillsonburg #2 PeeWee’s, 8-1. Deeland Martin scored for Six Nations unassisted. They will be regrouping and learning from the adversity for their next outing.
Later in the afternoon, the Six Nations Bantam LL’s Intertown, lost a heartbreaker to the Ingersol Express with a 3-2 loss. Ingersol scored first with the only goal of the period on a long hard wrist shot from just off the blue line.
Nolan Jonathan scored to get Six Nations into the game in the second period unassisted before J. Beattie scored for the visitors. Ingersol took a 3-1 lead in the third but Six Nations got that one back with Jonathan’s second unassisted goal of the game to draw close, but that was all they could manage and the Six Nations squad lost it 3-2.
You could hear the sound of the Six Nations Midget LL’s collapsing all the way to downtown Ohsweken late in the third period as Burford blasted back from a 3-2 deficit to win the game 4-3 with two goads scored in the last minute of the game.
Miley Martin game Six Nations a 1-0 lead with a bad angle shot that found its way into the net. It looked like Miley had gone in too far but had enough net open to her to find twine. Vaughn Montour in the Six Nations net made a great save with 1:50 left in the period to preserve the first period lead.
Burford evened the score early in the second with Ethan Low’s one-time backhander past Montour to even the score at 1-1, assisted by Jonathan Penders who fed a perfect pass from behind the net to Low who made no mistake, but it was Jake Smith who sent his team into the third period ahead 2-1.
Six Nations took a 3-1 cushioned lead with Miley Martin’s second of the game assisted by Rycol Davis with a great pass onto Davis’ stick and Brady Smith who started the play.
It was looking good for Six Nations even after Burford used up Six Nations cushion to draw within one with time was running out with 3:32 left. Burford was pressing hard at with 1:03 remaining, Low scored his second of day to tie it up, 3-3. Then, with 33 seconds left, Mason Wonch lifted a Hail-Marie shot from his own side of centre which Tyler Henry was not expecting and in an instant, Burford stole the Six Nations win, 4-3.
Tasking in an afternoon of Six Nations Minor Hockey is a great way to spend a Saturday or Sunday even if you don’t have any kids or grandkids playing. Win-lose or draw, it’s always entertaining.