Special teams key to midget Jets win
Posted By Ken MacPherson
Posted 2 months ago
The Bancroft Motors midget Jets used five power play goals to power their way past the North Frontenac Flyers 6 - 2 at the North Hastings Community Centre on Nov. 21. Four of them came on successive penalties in the third period, when the game was tied.
The game was all about special teams. North Frontenac scored both of their goals in odd-man situations. The first was the opening goal of the game, came short-handed, when a forward checked at the blue line, fell down, then regained enough balance to poke the puck through the five hole of keeper Jeff Bojko.
After giving up a goal at 4:15, short-handed, the Jets got back into the game 30 seconds later when Steven Krieger sent a blast from the blue line through a crowd in front of the net. The Flyers tied the contest on a goal-mouth scramble at 10:51. before Jon Scott poked in a puck on a scrum in the crease at 13:24.
Through a scoreless second period, Bancroft put the game away with a two-man powerplay goal at 3:45 and another at 3:58 with a one-man advantage. Brandon Fransky got the first when he tipped a shot on the doorstep and Scott got the second on a dribbler throught the five-hole of the Flyer keeper.
Greg Smith scored from an odd angle at 7:40 and Jared Dickey rounded out the scoring with a blast from the face off circle at 8:16.
North Frontenac, scored once in eight tries with the man advantage, and Bancroft connected five times on nine tries on the powerplay and they gave up a shot handed tally.
The win was the first of two on the weekend for the Jets. On Nov. 22 they stormed into Lakefield and took out the Chiefs 3-1. Brandon Bentley, Krieger and Greg Smith got the goals for the Jets. Connor Wilson, Fransky, Scott, Krieger and Smith added helpers.
Keenan White got the win between the pipes.
Bancroft holds a two games to none lead in the season series against the Flyers and got some revenge for a 6-2 loss against the Chiefs on Oct. 15
The wins vault the Jets one point up on Ennismore in the OMHA Eastern Ontario Eastern Division 1 Midget CC-C table, but they remain four points back of both Lakefield and Campbellford who have posted 15 points this season. Bancroft meets Lakefield again, on the road, on Nov. 27, then returns to the NHCC for a meeting against Brighton on Nov. 28 at 8 p.m.
