Gateway Youth Hockey recaps

Jan 4, 2016

Gateway Youth Hockey saw two wins and two losses in the weekend's games.

Squirts
Gateway Gladiator Squirts faced a tough KP Walpole team on Sunday. In the first period, Ty David Ribeiro and Matthew Paling each had unassisted goals. In the second, Ribeiro had another unassisted goal. In the third period, Paling added another himself assisted by Brayden Hathon. Lucas DeMoranville, Jacob Hebbel and Thomas Clavell played a strong defense throughout the game. Benjamin Hebbel and Brady Kidney skated hard, keeping the puck in motion. Despite Walpole scoring three goals, Gateway won a close game 4-3.

Pee Wees
Pee Wee Gladiators dropped a 4-3 game to Walpole on Sunday. Walpole took an early two-goal lead before RJ Vickery scored a goal for Gateway. Walpole scored a third goal, but Gateway fought back with two more goals by Bailey Tieu and Stephen Old to tie the game. Walpole added one more to pull ahead by one late in the third. Gateway pulled goalie Ryker King with a minute left for the extra attacker and applied immense pressure but could not get the goal to tie the game up.

Bantams
The Bantam Gateway Gladiators got back to their winning ways on Saturday with a win over a tough Whitman Kingston Hanson Youth Hockey team. WHK jumped out to an early lead scoring seven minutes into the game. WHK then scored again with a little over one minute left in the first period. The Gladiators, however, responded with a goal of the ensuing face off, with some passing between Tyler Lovendale and Quirino doCanto, with doCanto putting home the goal. Peter Pimental tied the game on a wrist shot with assists from Jack Martins and doCanto. Less than a minute later, James L'Heureux found the back of the net off a feed from Chris Cogan. The final goal was scored by Martins on a low, hard shot that snuck by the goalie, assisted by doCanto and Pimental. Bryan Gallagher added an assist from the defense and, along with the rest of the defense, shut down the WHK Hawks after their first two goals. Alex DeMarco filled in as the goalie, and had a strong game with 19 saves on 21 shots.

Middle School
The Middle School Jr. Vikings came up short Sunday night, losing to Medfield 6-5. After no scoring in the first period, both teams woke up in the second, with Medfield scoring four goals and the Jr. Vikings scoring two. Tyler Lovendale started the scoring for the Jr. Vikings. The second goal of the period was put in on a rebound by Jordan Boucher-Szwedko, his first career goal. The Jr. Vikings made a valiant effort with Robert Ramsay and Lovendale scoring short handed as well as Lovendale adding his third goal to secure a hat trick. But Medfield proved too much to handle, including three breakaway goals. Jake DeMoranville played well in net, followed up by Alex DeMarco, who did his best to handle the Medfield fire power.