Muskies win 6–3 over Elora Rocks

October 15, 2015 · 0 Comments

The Shelburne Muskies spoiled the Elora Rocks home opener Friday night as they picked up their first win of the season with a 6–3 win.
The win evened the Muskies record at 1–1 and gave new Head Coach Don McCarthy’s and assistant coach Joey Mcrae their first behind the bench.
This game went right down to the final three minutes as the Fish broke open a very tight 3–3 game when they scored three unanswered markers to take this game.
Veteran sniper Blake Lovell’s goal with just under three minutes turned out to be the winner as he ripped one to top right corner on a beautiful feed from Ryley Egan.
Egan however wasn’t finished as wend on to score an insurance marker 27 seconds later and then score yet another into an empty net giving the Muskies the 6-3 win.
The Rocks scored the only first period goal.
In the second period the Muskies started coming on as Ted Price opened the scoring for the Fish with assists to Nolan Tone and Luke Richardson.
The Muskies went in front on another beautiful marker from Nick Hodgson at 8:54 with Nathan King and Sean Cooper helping out on the play.
Elora got one back quickly tying it up just over a minute later then would regain the lead 3–2 another minute later.
Hodgson wasn’t finished as he notched his second in a row with just over a minute left in the frame from Tyler Wilson and Dylan Davison to tie things up.
A fight at the end of the second frame saw see the Muskies veteran center Nick Glassford sent to showers.
The Muskies out-shot the Rocks 41–38 on the night and once again Eddie Davey was a wall in net while referee Rob Nixon handed out 11 minors to the Muskies and 12 to the Rocks with each side taking a major each.
The Muskies are back at it this coming Saturday night at the Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex for an 8 p.m. start when they host the 2014–15 ‘A’ Division Champion Ripley Wolves.
The Podova Deli & Bakery catch of the game went to Riley Egan as he scored two and added a helper in the win.