DRAYTON 2 – LISTOWEL 1
Despite Drayton scoring on the first shift, the score was only 2-0 after the first period. Brent DeKoning started things off with a goal 12 seconds in, assisted by Mark Scholten and Dave Mulder. The second goal came from Eric Deckers, assisted by Mark Timmerman.
Midway through the second Listowel’s Curtis Wagler tucked the puck behind the netminder, assisted by Travis Kuepfer and Mark Hockley.
The third period remained scoreless as Drayton held on for the victory.
MISSIONARY 8 – FLORADALE 3
Missionary claimed the only goal in the first period. Dave Arndt passed to Curtis Bults, who blistered a shot under the crossbar.
Missionary added two midway through the second to pad the lead. Bults scored both goals for a hat trick, assisted by Brady Franklin, Rich Colwill and Matt Burnett.
Floradale edged back into the game with two goals in the final seconds of the second period. Mike Martin blasted a rising slapshot from the point and Andrew Martin sent in a wrist shot from the right side. Assists were earned by Willis Martin, Josh Brohman, Corey Wideman and Javon Martin.
Floradale kept the pressure going with an early power play in the third. Brohman and Wideman teed up Mike Martin at the blue line. Martin blasted a low shot along the ice that tied the game.
The tie was short lived however, as Missionary stormed back for five more goals. Bults added a pair and assisted on two for a seven-point night. Tom Chambers and Rich Colwill scored the final three goals. Other assists were earned by Nathan Rhame, Matt Freund and Devin McGuire.
COMMUNITY 4 – BETHEL 2
Community took the lead in the first with some good fore-checking. Joe Clemmer stole the puck at the Bethel blue line, skated in and threaded the puck into the short side corner.
Clemmer added a second goal less than a minute later with a tidy wrist shot, assisted by Cal Martin.
Bethel stayed in the game with a power play goal late in the period. Mackenzie Bauman centred a pass and Brandon Shoemaker tipped the puck into the net.
Community padded its lead to start off the second. Kevin Gingrich and Terry Horst set up the rush to give Sam Bauman a breakaway. Bauman skated in and sent the puck over the net minder glove.
A power play late in the period gave Community another goal. Gingrich and Bauman set up the play and gave Tony Martin a chance to poke the puck into the short side corner.
Bethel scored to stay in the game. Shoemaker took the puck to the right side and slipped a pass to Mike Seiling for the tip-in. That was as close as Bethel would get as Community held on for the victory.
