Gateway Girls: The Lady Jaguars made their way to Martha’s Vineyard to suffer a two game defeat. The Jaguars came out battling. Lily Pennock made many attempts to score. Bethany Davis and Rachel Breault worked hard defending the net as Jack Breault attempted to make many amazing saves. The Jaguars didn’t stop fighting until the last buzzer, losing 5-0. In the second game, the team came out with their best. In the first period Julia Elicier scored with an assist from Makayla Lorance. When the score was 2-1 Caitlin Sweeney made many attempts on net to score. Elicier scored her second goal of the game on a strategic penalty shot. At that time the score became 3-2 ending the first period. Makenzie Hennessey, Shannon Breault, and all the other Lady Jaguars fought hard till the very end. When the game came to an end the score was 7-2 with Vineyard winning.
Squirt Grizzlies: The Gateway Squirts Grizzlies split their games this weekend. On Saturday, the Grizzlies skated to an 8-2 victory over Pembroke in the Yankee Conference. Chris Gauvin led the offense with two goals and three assists. Thomas Galavotti had his first career hat trick. Bailey Tieu and Austin Flemming scored as well. Ryker King was solid in net. On Sunday, the Grizzlies lost to Braintree 2-0. Braintree jumped out to a one-goal lead in the first and added another late in the third. The Grizzlies head to MV this weekend.
Pee Wee Predators: The Pee Wee Predators became the first major Gateway team to beat Nantucket this weekend. And they did it twice.
In the first game, an 11-4 victory, the Predators scored at will. Tyler Lovendale got the scoring going early on his way to four goals in game one. Older brother Zack also joined the scoring with two goals. The Maloney Brothers, Matthew and Robert each scored a goal apiece. Quirino doCanto rounded out the scoring with a hat trick himself, one coming on a penalty shot, which left the goalie sprawling trying to make the save, coming up short. Helping out with assists on the day were Jack Martins and doCanto with two, Kaleb Riggle, Matt and Robert Maloney, and Tyler Lovendale with one each. In the second game, the Predators took a little while to get going, not scoring until late in the first with defenseman Bryan Gallagher stepping up and putting one past the goalie. Zack Lovendale and Riggle each netted a pair of goals, while doCanto added another hat trick and Seth Tomasik added a goal of his own.
Pee Wee Warriors: With 30 percent of their players vacationing in the Sunshine State, the Gateway Warriors called up three Squirt players in hope of maintaining their perfect Yankee Conference record. But with more penalties than goals, the Warriors found themselves overmatched by the Canton Bulldogs, suffering their first conference loss by a score of 7-3. Noah Demoranville had two goals for the Warriors. Stephen Old had a goal and two assists, while fellow-Squirt Austin Fleming added an assist. The loss marks the second in as many games for the struggling Warriors, as they dropped their state play-down game to the Southcoast Panthers earlier in the week, 9-2.
Middle School 1: A solid team effort yielded a 4-3 win for the Junior Vikings 1 team in an exciting game against Oliver Ames Friday night. The evenly matched teams put on a display of passing and defense for most of the first period, until Josh Smolinsky scored the first goal, assisted by Cameron DeMarco and Vyper LaTulippe. The game remained tied until midway through the third period when a pitched scoring battle began. Vikings skater Seth Tomasik was first to break the scoring stalemate, with an assist by Bryan Gallagher. That goal was quickly answered by Oliver Ames to tie the game once again. The tie was broken one minute later as Kaitlin Kelly scored, assisted by Quirino DoCanto. Another goal by Oliver Ames looked to tie the game up for good, but with just 30 seconds left, LaTullippe took the feed from Vittorio Consoletti for a top shelf shot to win the game.