Mooretown Flags Take a Bite Out of the Sharks
january 10, 2015

Great Lakes Jr. C Hockey League

The Mooretown Flags took another bite out of the Wheatley Sharks after taking an
8 - 4 win and the second win in the home/home series Saturday night in Wheatley.  Mooretown defeated the Sharks 5 - 2 in their last game at home on January 3.

After the first period Wheatley had a 3 - 2 lead but in the second the Flags unfurled and blew away the Sharks scoring 5 unanswered goals to take a 7 - 3 lead heading into the third.  In the third period both sides scored 1 each.

Dan Lumley led in scoring with 2 goals and singles by Caden Fleming, Justin Vanbuskirk, Sam Jasmin, Joe DeSena, Brett Thompson and Ryan Lyle. 

Matt Brandon led in assists with 3 for 3 points along with Jasmin and Thompson who assisted twice that gave them 3 points in total.

Shots on goal reported on Pointstreak shows Mooretown outshooting Wheatley 45-24, that would give Brandon Johnson the win in net for the Flags with 20 saves.

Both sides had five power play opportunities.  Mooretown scored once on the power play, Wheatley scored twice.

The Flags are now 11-19-3-0 for the season and are in 8th spot in the standings race 12 points ahead of Wallaceburg (5-25-0-3) and 8 points behind Alvinston (15-15-1-2).
 

Mooretown is back in action next weekend with two games facing the 2nd and 3rd place teams. The first on Friday Jan 16 travelling to Lakeshore (21-12-0-2)  then return home on Saturday night hosting 2nd place Amherstburg (22-11-1-1).   Game time 7:30 pm.