Suds take the Lobsters!

Schlitz (12) vs Lobsters
Wednesday July 21st
Quincy 8:10pm

5-3 Win

Another beauty of a summer night for hockey at our "home" rink in Quincy. Something nice about coming here in the summer, good memories in the building... and the parking lot.

The Beercans faced off against Team Shelfish on Wednesday night and it turned out to be a good competitive division game.

Here's the Gold Roster

Lizzy in Net

D1: DWH, Bauer

D2: Baker, J.Fosdick

O1: Larry, Seaver, Jasse

O2: J.Carey, Scott, Chris

O3: Nelson, iJosh, Gregson

The Lobsters had the usual suspects. They have a few players to watch but the young lady wearing #18 with Weiss on the back deserved special attention all night. She has wheels as many of us know and the Gold had to keep a close eye on her whenever she was near the puck.

The grumbling in the locker room about us not taking any opponent lightly must have paid off becuase the Gold came out with a stong effort and took the game right to the Lobsters.

Eric Bauer would break the ice with a nice spin-o-rama shot from about 15 feet. He called it a weak backhand but hey it went in the net so it goes down as a beauty of a spin-o-rama and a 1-0 lead for the Gold. Credit the good Doctor Jasse with the assist. Very nice to see the Jassman back on the ice after he was on the DL with the ever uncomfortable groin injury. Glad you're back Doc.

The Red would answer just before the end of the first with a good goal and the period would end 1-1.

Red would continue to take the momentum and despite lots of shots by Gold the Red would get the next one about 5 minutes into the second and would take a 2-1 lead.

Gold would not back down and the guys played great making sure we kept the energy up. Lizzy played great in net, the last goal she had been kind of hung out to dry and couldn't be helped.

The Gold got going and Chris Fosdick and John Carey did some very nice back and forth work that resulted in a terrific goal by John. Chris with the assist and some all around good work with the puck for the rangey forward. He pushed the play all night.

Striking again and taking the lead back, the Gold continued to play well. This time Nelson would put the finnish on a Steve Baker bid and the Beercans held a 3-2 a little more than halfway through the period. The second would end with that score.

The third saw another goal by the Lobsters to tie the game but afater that it was all Gold. Dan "DWH" Herbert would land a beauty of a shot through traffic that would beat the goalie low. Credit John Carey on the assist. Not long after Larry would get his as the Gold held the play in the Red end for a nice series. Credit Bauer and DWH with the assists on Larrys goal to make it 5-3.

The third would showcase some excellent work by Lizzy in the pipes and time and again she smothered Red chances and made a bunch of stops on odd man rushes. The Red really deserve credit for playing hard to the end as they continued to get good chances.

Steve Baker seemed to relish his job of "shadowing" number 18 and he did excellent work containing the speedy forward. She would have her chances including a breakaway that she tried an extra dipsy-doodle that Lizzy snuffed out. Steve finnally got under her skin as she held his stick long after they separated near the blue line then the two were tangled behind the net and Steve would go for a slashing call. It was kinda fun to watch.

Good stuff all the way around. The game would end 5-3 good guys (and girl) and we headed to the parking lot.

Big ups to Bauer and Gregson and Jasse for bringing postgame beverages. It was another very nice night by the swamp under the pale streetlights.

Game Stars

3rd Star: Steve Baker for the Shadow job on #18 and good play all night

2nd Star: Lizzy for a terrific night between the pipes. Great work Liz!

1st Star: A little un orthodox but hey... We've got four guys for the game star.

DWH, John Carey, Bauer and Bell. Each one with a goal and an assist. Nice work boys.