Sarnia Peewee Pacers
2010

Herb Lea Memorial Tournament
June 25 - 27, 2010

The Sarnia PeeWee Pacers had 3 wins and 1 loss in the recent Herb Lea tournament which put them in a three way tie for a trip to the championship game. Unfortunately, the Pacers had lost to the wrong team and were denied their chance at the gold.

Game one of the tournament saw the Pacers face Brampton in a late-night contest falling on the final day of school. With the boys excited to start holidays and their home tournament, excitement led to a constant brigade to the penalty box. Despite a great deal of penalty killing practice the Pacers came away with a 9-4 victory.  Goals were provided by Jack Dunn with 3, 2 to each of Ethan Dupont and Brett Barnes and singles to Dylan Lavoie and Kyle Vince. Barnes also chipped in with 2 assists and Cody Haas had a solid game in net.

Game two the next afternoon was against the eventual tournament champs from Six Nations. The Pacers weren’t on their game and allowed a number of uncontested goals in the first period to fall by a final score of 7-3. Barnes had 2 and Logan Scott one in the loss.

Later that night the Pacers faced an aggressive but skill deficient team from Cambridge and were able to play a smart game on route to a 13-0 victory. Haas had the shutout for the Pacers with the following players hitting the goal column on the scoresheet: Hunter Taylor and Jacob Caughlin with hat-tricks, Griffin Dillabough and Scott with 2 each and singles to Dunn, Lavoie and Kaden Fulcher. Multiple helpers went to Barnes with 4, Dunn and Scott with 3 and Brennan McKegan with a pair.

In their final game on Sunday the Pacers faced a talented squad from Newmarket and put together their best effort of the tourney on route to a 4-2 victory. The Pacers had many, many chances to pull away in the game but the goal posts and defending goalie were on their game. Brayden Bell was solid in net and goals came from Patrick Wright, Fulcher, Bert Thorpe and Dillabough. Fulcher and Dunn also added 2 assists in the win.