Your Financial Partners On the Road Last Week
The first week in November was a busy one for the Your Financial Partners PeeWee Rep Ingersoll Express, with five road games on their docket.
Up against the Waterford Wildcats on Monday November 2 the Express opened with good momentum and the boys kept it scoreless through the first period of play. Parker Moon delivered good physical penalty kills and several rushes with Jeff Couse who leaned hard on Waterford with his own chances. Jeremy Racicot and Colton Cameron provided a physical presence in addition to moving the puck to the net. Chris Dimmers and Luke Zegers supplied strong offense, Zegers also with a clean hit late in the third at Waterford’s bench. Cole Mayo and Joel Couse worked diligently at the line to sustain Ingersoll’s tempo, particularly on the powerplay. Adam Dzyngel was solid at the point feeding the duo of Thomas Larder and Daniel Lindsay who moved the puck well throughout the game. Brandon DeBruyn and Dakota Lednicky were effective at both ends of the rink late in the match-up but the final remained 4-0 Wildcats.
Thursday November 5 the team was in Paris to take on the Wolfpack. With good pressure in the opening frames and Lucas Malchesky aggressive and poke-checking to clear his crease, the game remained scoreless into the third. Moon, Joel Couse and Mason Schneider were strong shorthanded. Dzyngel forced several Paris turnovers. Jeff Couse set up Dimmers, narrowly missing the tying goal. Mayo, Racicot and Zegers pressed hard on the powerplay. Zach Staddon broke up a Wolfpack pass and took a run up the wing, his attempt landing just wide. DeBruyn continued the push to put something together and Lindsay, too, charged once more to the net. But with just over a minute remaining Paris tallied another, making it a hard-fought 2-0 Wolfpack final.
Saturday November 6 the PeeWees returned to Waterford for their first tournament of the season. Dimmers set the tone from the puck drop against Cayuga, driving deep into the Stars’ zone. Jeff Couse fired the first goal of the game from the slot, capitalizing on passes out front from Dimmers and Zegers. Joel Couse answered with a shot from inside the line, through traffic, that put the Express up by 2. Late in the third Larder padded Ingersoll’s lead breaking in over the line, holding off his man and scoring a beauty of a goal on his backhand. Malchesky’s big glove save in the closing minutes preserved the team’s first shutout of the season and the 3-0 Express win.
Larder, Lindsay and Cameron played the rebounds well to start Ingersoll off next against the Glanbrook Rangers. Jeff and Joel Couse, Dzyngel, Mayo and Moon worked hard clearing the zone in what proved a very physical game. Malchesky came up with shorthanded saves to keep Ingersoll in it, particularly late in the third, though the game was subject to a tournament curfew and the contest ended 2-0 Rangers.
In their last match of the day the Express faced the Simcoe Warriors. Racicot and Moon were out early supporting a scrum at the net led by Lednicky, Schneider and Staddon. Racicot was back midway through the first to pick it out of the corner and pocket one from the bottom of the circle to tie things 1-1. Malchesky dug deep late in the period to hold it there but Simcoe jumped out front with 3 quick ones in the second, which prompted Ingersoll to risk an empty net and utilize the extra attacker for much of the third. The strategy nearly paid off, with the Express turning in strong performances at the Warriors’ net, but this game was curfewed as well, winding up 5-1 for Simcoe.
The PeeWees have two games on tap this week: Thursday November 19 at 8:10pm they’ll host the Langton Leafs and Sunday November 22 they’ll be in Simcoe.
