The Sarnia PeeWee Pacers opened their Zone 7 regular season schedule with four games last week. The opening day of play saw the Pacers host the Windsor Warlocks for a pair of games at the Clearwater arena.

In Game 1 the Pacers would struggle to stay out of the penalty box and as a result would fall by a score of 7-4 to the visiting Warlocks. Hitting the preferential area of the scoresheet were Jacob Caughlin, Bert Thorpe, Dylan Lavoie and Dawson Vautour all with single goals. Assists went to Lavoie with a pair and Griffin Dillabough with a single.  Cody Haas went the distance in net.

Game 2 later that day would be a timekeeper’s worst nightmare with teams amassing ninety minutes in penalties and the game being shortened due to inclement weather. The Pacers would pull out the victory is this one by a final score of 5-4 with Hunter Taylor scoring late in the final period to secure the victory. Cody Haas was solid in net to earn the victory and other goal scorers for Sarnia were Brett Barnes with two and singles to Logan Scott and Ethan Dupont. Jack Dunn chipped in with 3 assists and singles went to Patrick Wright and Logan Scott.

Two days later the Pacers traveled to London to battle the Blue Devils and played a great team game to come away with a 6-4 road victory. Scoring for the Sarnia squad was provided by 6 different players with Dunn, Dillabough, Barnes, Kyle Vince, Vautour and Taylor all picking up singles. Assisting on these markers were Dunn with 4 and singles to Barnes, Dupont and Scott.  Haas took the win in net and put in his best performance of the young season.

For the Pacers next challenge they would travel to Wallaceburg to battle the Griffins and unfortunately many of the Sarnia players weren’t ready to compete on this night. The hometown Griffins would jump out to leads of 2-0 after one period, 5-3 after two and hold on to defeat the Pacers by a final of 8-7.  Scoring for the Pacers was provided by Dunn with 3, Vince with 2 and singles to Caughlin and Scott. Assisting on these goals were Nolan Coats with a pair and singles to Vautour, Scott, Wright and goalie Brayden Bell. Bell and Haas split the goaltending duties in this game.