While enjoying the relative warmth of the Hockey rinks up north in Markham, Ontario, I am told by Coach Perry that the Greece Thunder blew away the Greece Lightning like a balloon in a gale force wind, with a convincing 13-7 division win on Saturday at Arcadia. Apparently, it was quite windy for the first "Storm Game" of the season and I suspect if you asked the Lightning players they might have told you they felt like they were no longer in Kansas, as Thunder led this one from start to finish.
Gino Prestigiacomo (4g-4a) got his team on the board quickly with two fast breaks to start the game. Then on the first man-up, Tyler Gorgione (4g) scored on a feed from Anthony Merola (1g-1a) out of the corner. Two minutes later Giorgione rallied again, this time unassisted. And before the quarter was out, it was Merola's turn to tally as he made a nice cut from the low corner, received a feed from G-Pres up top and put it away to close out the first quarter with a commanding 5-0 lead.
The second quarter was much closer, with Thunder scoring four goals and the Lightning putting up three. Gorgione counted a man-up goal for Thunder after taking a feed from G-Pres, popping, rolling, and smoothing it upper corner. Next up was Dan Vyverberg (2g-1a) with his first of the game, assisted by Andrew Prestigiacomo. With three minutes to the half, Rich Fischer (2g) scored unassisted to finally put Lightning on the board and then Billy Slappar (2g) followed it up with another score, this one assisted by Kendrick Heintzelman (2g-2a). Thunder answered right back as Gino sailed a pass to Matt Keough (2g) for the corner shot finish before getting his own on the subsequent drive. Fischer resurfaced for the Lightning with 13 ticks left on the clock, sneaking one by Rudgers, assisted by Heintzelman, to help his team hang on at 11-3 going to the half.
After the half the Lightning started to run the ball, while the Thunder offense made a few passing mistakes, allowing the Lightning to win the third quarter 4-2 on 2 tallies by Heintzelman, 1 for Slapar and 1 from Dylan Mahan. Scoring in the third for Thunder were Gino and Vyper.
Thunder closed out the final quarter winning 2-0, spending most of the time controlling the ball on offense. Keough and Giorgione scored assisted by Vyper and Tromboli respectively. Brandon Cheeseman had ten ground balls and brought the ball from defense to offense a number of times. Gino Prestigiacomo controlled the face-offs today and also picked up a total of ten ground balls himself. This win advances Thunder's record to 6-5.
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