Hornets split weekend games at USA National Team Tournament

This past weekend in Ann Arbor, the Pittsburgh Hornets got off to a hot start with a 8-1 win over the Ohio Jr. Blue Jackets behind 4 shorthanded goals (Cramer & Cerutti)(South & Polidor)
Raymond & Gaul)( Cerutti & Cramer). In game 2, the Hornets dropped a hard fought affair to the Chicago Mission 6-3 with an empty netter. The Hornets bounced back with a 2-1 win behind goals from Pat Gaul and Andrew Blazek to defeat the Colorado Thunderbirds.

After advancing to the semi-finals, the Hornets dropped a 2-1 heart breaker to Victory Honda.
Rob Madore made 41 saves and saw one of the two goals be inadvertantly kicked in by Brad Reck of Victory Honda. Andrew Palmisano of Victory Honda was stellar as well making 27 saves.
Palmisano, who had been playing for the USA National Team as an emergency fill in, was stellar throughout the weekend as was Rob Madore.