Pee Wee AE - Dove Dental, 2019-2020 (Ingersoll & District Minor Hockey)

With the expected announcement from the OMHA suspending the balance of the season, tonight's 3-1 loss against Plattsville was really secondary considering what is happening in the world. Instead of talking about the game itself, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the coaching staff that included Jamie Belore, Chris Pare, Billy Huitema, Trevor Durham and Kevin Condotta for doing such an amazing job, in what turned out to be a very awesome season for the Dove Dental Peewee A/E team.

Coming off such an emotional series vs Strathroy, the boys needed to reset their focus on the job at hand, and that was to solidify a spot in the top 4 for Southern Counties, and get a shot to play a couple more meaningful games before the end of the season. Back between the pipes was Ben Baker, as we hosted the Langton Leafs, a team that was relegated to our division after competing in the rep loop during the first half of the season.

We are so proud of our boys who battled to the end, but came up short, losing 4-1 to Strathroy and the series 6 pts to 4. Great job goes to the coaching staff who had them ready to go for this series, and kudos to the boys from Strathroy, who played a hell of a series as well. Mason Durham scored the first goal of the game, going top shelf, off a nice pass by Owen Clarke to give us the lead, but the Rockets tied it up just a couple minutes later.

The building was packed ready to cheer on the hometown Peewee A/E Express as they played game 4 of the semi final series. The Express had a chance to end this series tonight at home, leading the series 4 pts to 2, but it would take a monumental effort from all to accomplish this, as Strathroy has given us all we could handle and more in this series. With Tanner Belore in the net, we were ready to give it all we had.

Just when you think all hope is lost, this team just seems to find a way. If you did not make the trek down the 402 to Strathvegas, you missed another tight game, where two teams battled hard to impose their will on one another. Back between the pipes was Tanner Belore, who was coming off a fantastic game on Saturday.