Gateway Youth Hockey’s season started up this past weekend. To see how the teams fared read on.

Squirts

The Gateway Squirts started sluggish, but soon picked up the pace taking their first win of the season (8-0) against Braintree White. Thomas Leger, Matthew Quinlan, Juni Suarez, Trendyn Mederios and Nate Ribeiro scored for the team with assists from Matthew Paling and Juni.

Pee Wees

The Gateway Pee Wee hockey season opener resulted in a 6 - 1 loss against Duxbury. Duxbury took an early 3-goal lead in the first period until Jack Martins got Gateway on the board with their only goal of the game in the second period. Duxbury would go on to score 3 additional goals in the third.  Gateway Goalie, Ryker King, had some incredible stops, but the opposing team’s pressure was consistent throughout the entire game and proved too much for Gateway.

Bantams

The Gateway Youth Hockey Bantam team opened the season with a decisive 8-0 victory over Plymouth. Steven Strachan and Zachary Pateakos shared the shutout in net. Jackson St. Don, Jake Demoranville and Jameson Woodward each had two goals. Zack Lovendale added a goal and an assist. Jared Westgate also chipped in with a goal. Josh Smolinsky and Robert Ramsay each had three assists.

Middle School 1

The Middle School 1 Jr. Vikings had a victory over Walpole 6-2 Friday night. The scoring started early with a goal off the first face-off of the game. Quirino doCanto won the face off and headed up the ice with line mates Tyler Lovendale and James L'Heureux. DoCanto then passed to L'Heureux to score 10 seconds into the game. Coleby Paling and Seth Tomasik held Walpole scoreless for the first period. Peter Pimental started the second period scoring on assists from Vyper LaTulippe and Zack Lovendale. Pimental returned the favor and fed Lovendale for his first of two goals on the night. Walpole then added another goal making it 4-2. The Lovendale brothers scored the final two goals.

Game 2

The MS 1 Jr. Vikings played their second game on Sunday, squeaking out a tie 2-2 against the North Devils. The game was a defensive battle from the beginning. North got on the board early in the first period beating Alex DeMarco. DeMarco then stopped almost every other shot after that. The Vikings defense, Paling, Tomasik, Riggle, W. Latulippe, played strong as well, keeping the Devils away from DeMarco. The Junior Vikings put up a number of shots on the North goalie. The third period started off as another tough defensive period, until the Junior Vikings finally broke through. Tyler Lovendale, Quirino doCanto and James L’Heureux got the offense going early in the third period. On an offensive zone face off, an errant pass found Lovendale’s stick, who quickly made a no look backhand pass to doCanto. doCanto made the goalie miss and drew the puck back in, before stuffing in a backhand, as he was going down to the ice. On the ensuing possession, all three came down the ice and combined for the second goal with a pass from doCanto to L’Heureux to Lovendale who put it in the net. Unfortunately, the lead was short lived as North quickly tied it up. The game then became defensive again, with neither team being able to score again.