Gateway Youth Hockey teams trounce opponents
Four of out of five Gateway Youth Hockey teams dominated its opponents on the ice this past weekend. To read gam summaries, see below.
Mites
The Gateway Mites lost 10-5 Saturday to behind a strong team effort. The team was short-handed missing four of its players. Backup goalie Pat Tripp stopped 42 shots and a penalty shot. Gateway jumped out to a 2-0 lead early but couldn’t hold the lead. Jarred Frates had a hat trick and Brayden Cannon and Jack Langlais also had goals. Kevin Place, Bree Killion and Thomas Clavell were strong on defense. The Mites play Nantucket next Saturday.
Squirts
The Gateway Squirts played Cape Cod Canal Sharks at Gallo Arena Saturday and came away with another win 8-0. With Matthew Quinlan and Juni Suarez each scoring four goals. Thomas Leger, Lucas DeMoranville and Braden MacDonald played great defense. Brady Kidney and Nathan Ribeiro hustled on offense and Ryker King had 12 saves giving him another shutout. Joeseph Urnek-Sullivan was awarded the game puck for his outstanding effort on the ice.
Pee Wees
The Gateway Youth Hockey Pee Wee team beat Canal 5-2. Matthew Quinlan scored two goals followed by Austin Fleming, Danny Flynn and Jack Martins who also earned goals. This week’s strong passing and shooting game led to three assists by Ben DeMoranville and an assist each by Jack Martins, Luke Mello, Bailey Tieu and Matthew Quinlan. Canal played hard keeping the score tight in the first half of the game and didn’t make it easy for Gateway.
Bantams
Bolstered by shutout net minding from Steven Strachan and Zachary Pateakos, along with a five-point night from Tyler Lovendale, the Gateway Bantams trounced Weymouth, 8-0. Lovendale had a hat trick and two assists, while brother Zack also added a pair of assists. Josh Smolkinsky had a pair of goals and an assist. Robert Ramsay also had three points (a goal and two assists). Jared Westgate and Nick Snow each had a goal, and Jameson Woodward chipped in with an assist. The defensive efforts of Westgate, Jackson St. Don, Noah DeMoranville, and Coleby Paling limited Weymouth to less than a handful of shots on goal.
Middle School
The Middle School 1 team took on a tough KP team on Friday, coming away with a tough 6-5 loss. KP jumped out quickly, taking a 3-0 lead. The Junior Vikings didn’t fold, scoring two goals, leaving the score at the end of the first 3-2. The Junior Vikings would outscore KP 1-0 in the second period, but KP just had too much offense in the third, scoring three while the Junior Vikings only had two. Quirino doCanto scored two goals while Matthew Maloney, Robert Maloney, and Peter Pimentel, each had a goal.