"Stealing One"

The Pearl River Pirates returned to their home rink this date to meet the Mamaroneck Tigers, a Tier II program that competes in Westchester and Long island NY leagues. The Tigers, like our Bucs, were tuning up for close-of-season tournament play. Our squad will complete in the New England Regional this weekend in Smithfield R.I. while the Tigers will trundle off to the Harrisburg Pa. invitational. The Pirates came out flying and opened up a 2-0 lead on the strength of first period goals by CJ Greco and Dillon Krok. The Mamaroneck contingent responded quickly and often in the middle period with three unanswered tallies. They demonstrated superior break-out ability from the defensive zone and nifty stick handling putting their pucks behind a largely unsupported Sean Gordon. Dolan Ocasal's hustle resulted in the Tiger turnover that knotted the score at three. But it took another 'rock' from Krok (more like a pebble thru the 5 hole) to match a third period score by Mamaroneck to give the Pirates a well earned (4-4) tie to complete their season at Sport-o-Rama. The 'Hooter' credits this point to the outstanding clutch net minding by Sean 'the Cat' Gordon who kept the Tiger's at bay by denying them numerous scoring opportunities with his quick glove and rapid lateral movements. This was in stark contrast to the three soft goals yielded by the Tiger goalie.