Pee Wee Jr Colonials Pour It On In Wins

The Western Connecticut Jr Colonials Pee Wee A hockey team won two home games at Danbury Ice Arena with an offensive explosion, outscoring the opponents a combined 14-3, this past weekend. On Saturday, the Jr Colonials applied constant pressure throughout all three periods of play to defeat the Northwestern Connecticut IceHawks 7-2. After Kevin Keiser and Liam Smith scored for Western CT, Newtowners Owen Sandercox and Cooper McLean got on the scoreboard. McLean’s was a particularly impressive goal as he drove hard to the net, received a perfect lead pass from Smith and directed a shot between the IceHawk goaltender’s legs. In the third period, the IceHawks showed some life and scored two goals to narrow the Jr Colonial’s lead to 4-2 before another Newtown skater, Dan Harrison, scored on a quick wrist shot, with assists going to Frank Haklits and McLean. Steven Almeida and Haklits then closed out the scoring. The IceHawks record now stands at 16-4, with the Jr Colonials having handed them three of those losses.

 On Sunday, the Jr Colonials overwhelmed the Northeastern Connecticut IceDogs from the opening faceoff, scoring four times in the first period en route to a 7-1 triumph. The first goal was scored 53 seconds into the game by Sandercox, assisted by fellow Newtowner Heydan Savoia. It took another seven minutes for Kevin Keiser to light the lamp, followed less than a minute later by a Haklits goal and then another Keiser goal with 3.1 seconds left in the period to make the score 4-0. Not only did the Jr Colonials dominate on the scoreboard, they allowed only one shot in the period, with Newtown defender Brian Gregory showing no mercy on the opponents, throwing hard body checks and clearing away any chance for IceDogs shots. Early in the second period, Haklits scored again, this time assisted by Savoia and another Newtown forward, Justin Corsello. The IceDogs’ goaltender Austin Beaupre stopped the next 12 Western CT shots to hold the score at 5-1 after two periods. In the third period, Sandercox scored the most impressive goal of the weekend, gathering the puck inside of his own blue line, skating with authority through numerous IceDogs players and roofing a hard shot over Beaupre for an unassisted tally. Harrison and Liam Smith then assisted on a hat-trick goal by Haklits. Newtown goalie Patrick McLoughlin had a relatively easy weekend in notching two more victories and lowering his goals-against average in a very impressive season.

The Jr Colonials raised their Connecticut Hockey Conference record to 11-4-1.

Next up for the Jr Colonials are CHC matchups against West Hartford at the Danbury Ice Arena on Saturday and then an important game against the ECHO Stars at the Bolton Ice Palace on Sunday.