Mooretown, ON – After a 7-2 defeat at the hands of the Wheatley Sharks on December 5th, the Mooretown Flags came out firing against the Wallaceburg Lakers, scoring eight goals in a 8-2 victory in Junior C hockey.

 

The Flags scored the games first three goals as Dan Hachey got the games opening goal followed by a rebound power play goal by Mooretown leading scorer Jeff Schroeter for the 2-0 lead. Caden Fleming would round out the period with the third goal, working a give and go with Alex Dawson to give Mooretown a 3-0 lead after the first period of play.

Wallaceburg would start the second period cutting the lead down to two goals as Tyler Ryan scored 1:13 into the second. But Mooretown would continue to respond and find the back of the net four more times.

 

Calab Harse would the Flags first goal of the period, blasting a faceoff win by Josh Teschke over the shoulder of Joel Terhaerdt to give the Flags their three goal lead.

 

Alex Dawson would pick up a power play goal coming in off the blue line, and Aaron Schieman would bat in a pass in the air after Teschke caused a turn over in the Lakers zone and forced a 2 on 1 play.

 

Things continued to get worse for the Lakers as Kurtis Glowa would pull a deke around the defence and move in short handed, beating Terhaerdt low between the pads, and giving Mooretown a 7-1 lead after two periods.

 

In the third, Norm Ledger would get two goals for the Lakers in under two minutes, with one coming on the power play. But Dan Hachey would finish the game off with his second of the game on the power play, and give the Flags the 8-3 victory.

 

Andrew Ganter picked up his 10th win of the season making 25 saves on the night.

"We skated well and that is the best we skated in a long time," said Flags Head Coach Bruce Aberhart. "Fortunately we got off to a good start to the game. We relaxed a little bit for five minutes at the end of the second and third, and that is not what we need to do. We need to play from start to finish."

 

It was a big win for the Flags after getting shelled for seven goals themselves earlier in the week. But after a good week of practice, the Flags put that game behind them, and move on with an eight goal performance tonight.

 

"The game in Wheatley we were not competitive at all," said Aberhart. "We had a good practice on Wednesday and got that cleared out of our minds and focused on Wallaceburg tonight. The results showed as the guys came to play tonight."

 

Mooretown and Wallaceburg will do it again on Wednesday in Wallaceburg before the Flags return home on Saturday night to take on the Alvinston Flyers.