Squirts: Gateway Gladiator Squirts faced a tough KP Walpole team on Sunday. In the first period, Ty David Ribeiro and Matthew Paling each had unassisted goals. In the second, Ribeiro had another unassisted goal. In the third period, Paling added another with an assist from Brayden Hathon. Lucas DeMoranville, Jacob Hebbel, and Thomas Clavell played a strong defense all game long. Benjamin Hebbel and Brady Kidney skated hard keeping the puck in motion. Despite Walpole scoring three goals, Gateway won the close game 4-3.
Pee Wees: Pee Wee Gladiators dropped a 4-3 game to Walpole on Sunday. Walpole took an early two-goal lead before Gateway got on the board with a goal by RJ Vickery. Walpole scored a third goal, but Gateway fought back with two more goals by Bailey Tieu and Stephen Old to tie the game. Walpole added one more to go ahead by one late in the third. Gateway pulled goalie Ryker King with a minute left for the extra attacker and applied immense pressure, but could not get the goal to tie up the game. An outstanding job by all players.
Bantams: The Bantam Gateway Gladiators finally got back to their winning ways on Saturday with a win over a tough WHK team. WHK jumped out to an early lead scoring just seven minutes into the game. WHK then scored again with a little over one minute left in the first period. The Gladiators, however, responded with a goal off the ensuing face off, with some nice passing between Tyler Lovendale and Quirino doCanto, with doCanto putting home the goal. Peter Pimental tied the game on a nice wrist shot with assists from Jack Martins and doCanto. Less than a minute later, James L’Heureux found the back of the net off a great feed from Chris Cogan. The final goal was scored by Martins on a low, hard shot that snuck by the goalie, assisted by doCanto and Pimental. Bryan Gallagher added an assist from the defense and along with the rest of the defense, shut down the WHK Hawks after their first two goals. Alex DeMarco filled in as the goalie and had probably his best game of the season with 19 saves on 21 shots.
Middle School: The Middle School Jr. Vikings came up a little short on Sunday night, losing to Medfield 6-5. After no scoring in the first period, both teams woke up in the second, with Medfield scoring four goals and the Jr. Vikings scoring two. The scoring for the Jr. Vikings was started by Tyler Lovendale after some nice passing between Lovendale and Quirino doCanto. The second goal of the period was put in on a rebound by Jordan Boucher-Szwedko, his first career goal. The Jr. Vikings made a valiant effort with Robert Ramsay and Lovendale scoring short handed, as well as Lovendale adding his third goal to secure a hat trick. Medfield was just too much to handle, including three break-away goals following deflections on shots from the blue line. Jake DeMoranville played well in net, followed up by Alex DeMarco, who did his best to handle the Medfield fire power.