Gateway Youth Hockey teams faced challenging teams this weekend, but came out on top with three wins. For game summaries, see below.

Squirts

The Gateway Gladiator Squirt team continued its strong play with two wins this weekend. On Saturday, the team faced Duxbury and fought to a 12-2 win. On offense Tommy Clavell led the team with five goals and an assist. Brayden Cannon, Brayden Hathon, Liz Kilpatrick, Ben Hebbel, Kevin Place and Patrick Tripp all contributed goals. The Gladiators followed up on Saturday’s win with its toughest test of the season against Pembroke on Sunday morning. The team got great goaltending from Ryan Killion and strong defensive play from Mike Brown early on to help hold on until the offense was able to mount an attack in the second and third periods. Brayden Cannon led the offense with five goals while Ben Hebbel and Brayden Hathon each had one goal in the 7-1 win.

Peewees

Gateway Gladiators Peewees had its season opener Saturday versus KP Walpole. Matthew Paling put Gateway on the board followed by a goal from Ty Rebeiro, and one from Nate Ribeiro with assists from Lucas DeMoranville. Walpole and the Gladiators both played a defensive game, but Rebeiro scored two more with assist credited to Nate Ribeiro and Jacob Hebbel, Matthew Paling came in to find the back of the net one more time assisted by Ty. Ryker King had a phenomenal game in net also facing a penalty shot in securing the shut-out, ending the game 6-0.

On Sunday, the Gladiators Peewees played Barnstable in an early morning game. The Gladiators were ready to go and Ty Rebeiro put Gateway up with less then 15 seconds into the game unassisted. Soon after, he added another assisted from Connor MacLeod. Matthew Paling added one with an assist from MacLeod. In the second, Lucy Murphy found the net assisted by Nate Ribeiro, Ty added three more goals with assists from Matthew Stone and Lucas DeMoranville. Joe Urnek added another for the Gladiators assisted from Nate. In the third period, Gateway was still receiving a pressured game from Barnstable but kept skating. Nate Ribeiro put scored a goal assisted by MacLeod. Urnek got two more, both assisted from Lucas. Matthew Stone put one up with assist from Macleod. Thomas Leger had a great game in net with a final score of 12-1.

Bantams

Although the 8-3 score may not reflect it, the Gateway Gladiator Bantams faced its toughest challenge of this young season on Sunday against a feisty Plymouth team. The Gladiators were short handed at the start of the game, causing some shuffling of the lines, and Plymouth took advantage, scoring the game’s first two goals. With the Gladiators down two goals, Quirino doCanto stole the puck in his own end, skated through the Plymouth team and beat the goalie for his first goal of the day. Plymouth would erase that goal, a few minutes later, moving their lead back to two goals.

The Gladiators would pull within a goal when Tyler Lovendale found the back of the net on a feed from Robert Maloney and doCanto. Defenseman Will Goldman would tie the game with a wrist shot from the blue line, deflected in past the goalie, with assists going to Zach Barris and Ethan Carpentier. The second period ended in a 3-3 tie, but just 10 seconds into the third Lovendale put in the go ahead goal, assisted by Maloney and doCanto again. The score would remain that way until a power play with 58 seconds, when doCanto would go on a scoring frenzy. He scored three goals in less than 40 seconds, assisted by Liv Fryer on one and Lovendale on two, while the other was unassisted. Tyler Lovendale would put the exclamation point on the game on an unassisted goal just before the buzzer sounded. Alex DeMarco had an outstanding game in net, making 13 saves.