Hornet Tournament FLASH Alert ! ! ! -Midnight Wrap-up

Today is Friday the 11th but for the Hornets it must feel like the film Friday the 13th, dropping a scary 5-4 decision to the Philadelphia Flyers. This horror movie started out with the Hornets outshooting the Flyers by a 32 to 18 margin as the Hornets generally carried play throughout the contest, yet the Hornets found themselves down by a score of 4-1 as the Flyers scored 4 goals on their first 11 shots. Ferocious Kyle Izett of Philly played hard-nosed hockey and notched the first 2 goals for Philly (assisted by John Williams on the 1st and unassisted on the second). Give the scrappy Flyers credit as they made their limited scoring opportunities count and rode the rest of the game on the broad shoulders of Goalie Danny Sullivan, an ’89 birth year goaltender whose strong play bordered on outstanding and kept the Flyers in the game. Trying to stem the Flyer onslaught, Jake Dellavalle scored the Hornets first goal (on assists by Trevor Yealy and Dave Spadacene). But the Flyers kept on rolling and made it 3-1 then 4 to 1 on goals by Trey Milstead (assisted by Taylor Morgan ) and Zach Brown(assisted by Mike Cauley).

Also give lots of credit to the Hornets as they refused to quit competing. The Hornet warriors worked hard as they tried to turn this horror movie into an inspirational film when Hornet Goalie Ben Burns came into the game in relief with about 4 minutes left in the first half and steadied the Hornets down with his solid play, good squaring to the puck, very strong angles and good goaltending fundamentals. The Hornets then stormed back to tie the game at 4 apiece on goals by Gerry Raymond (assisted by Ron Kramer and Chris Cerrutti) and Sidle (assisted by Pat Gaul and Furman South) and Pat Gaul (assisted by Polidor and Furman South – all set up by a lazer-like cross ice pass by Chris Morford). Sadly though for the Hornets, John Williams of the Flyers scored the final goal with a few minutes remaining (on assists from Brian O’Neal and Dominick Manero) to nail down a scary 5-4 victory. Congrats to both teams on a hard fought game as the Hornets are sure to bounce back tomorrow against Honeybaked at 10:30 am.

Other scores for the evening: Russel Stover posts an exciting 2-1 over San Jose with 1:36 left in overtime with a great crossgrain shot from the side of the slot area. Not sure if they feed the Russell Stover kids that candy but whatever they feed them, man those kids are big! Pikes Peak crafted a huge upset beating Honeybaked 3-1 in an exciting match, as Honeybaked pulled the goalie at 2-1 and Pikes Peak scored the open net goal. Team Illinois rolled over Tri City 7-0 and the Marquette Electricians won an electrifying victory over Ventura 6-5. I will try and post the name of the goalie for Ventura as I heard he was electrifying in goal as well.