Suds burn down Sparta!

Schlitz (11) vs Spartans

Thursday December 4th

Hingham C 10:20pm

7-3 Win

Good turn out for a late game in Hingham, even with some late arrivers. We were still able to start the game with 10 then added two more to make it a total of 12 to take on the Green Greeks.

The roster looked like this.

Brian in net.

D1 Campbell and Chris Fosdick

D2 Matvey and Jeff

Forwards: Capraro, Jasse, Reynolds, Parker, Nelson, Scott, Larry, and Roman.

In this league you never do really know what you are going to be up against from one week to the other. Who knows when a team is going to either show up strong with lots of decent players or show up with a weaker roster. We've seen the Spartans enough to know it can go either way with these guys. Sometimes we handle 'em... sometimes they handle us.

This night was good because even early on it looked like the Skating Beercans would have the best of this showdown. No question the Gold would go on to play one of thier best games of the season and all around a real confidence booster. There was passing, skating and good shooting too... hard to believe I know but it all seemed to work out.

The first was underway when Kevin Parker would land one from Matvey and Capraro that would break the ice and get us going. Not long after Campbell would pick up the faceoff pass from Roman in the Green end and fire a shot that would hit off a defenseman's leg and into the net for a 2-0 lead.

The Spartans wouldn't go quietly though and they would score with 6 minutes left in the first to get on the board for the first time. The Gold would counter with only 2 minutes left, when Roman would score, this time Campbell returning the assist favor to him. Mike kept it in the zone and Roman kind of skated around until everyone kind of fell asleep then he put a wrister into the net. The period would end 3-1 good guys.

The second period would see more good work on the Gold part. Dr. Pounds would pick a nice pass from Roman and Pete and would roof a shot over the keeper for a 4-1 lead at the nine minute mark of the period. This would be followed by a nice goal from Larry, this one from Nelson and Chris that would close out the second period with the Suds running way with things 5-1. We would have a couple of penalties, Parker and Campbell which forced a brief 5-3 that the Gold was able to kill.

The Spartans would come back and score two in the third, we would take one more penalty (Reynolds) before it was all said an done. The Gold wasn't done either with Nelson scoring a beauty from Matvey and Chris Fosdick scoring his second of the game from Jasse and Roman to wrap things up. All in all a pretty good night at the rink.

Game Stars

3rd Star: 2 guys with a pair of assists. Matvey Nikhamik and Pete Capraro. Matvey had a very strong night playing D and Pete had his susual high-energy outing that really pressed the older Spartans. Nice job both of you.

2nd Star: 3 guys each with 1 goal and 1 assist. Mike Campbell, Chris Fosdick, and Nelson Sharfman. Each of these three had very nice games, nice passing and finish. Good work all of you.

1st Star: Roman Kurin with a nice 4 point night. 1 goal and 3 assists made for a big night for the speedy Russian, who was an active part of the offense all night. Great work.