Davidson, Sports

Peewee Huskies look to take down Winterhawks

 

Phoenix Prpick looks for room to move around a Redvers player. Prpick plays defence for the peewee Huskies, who hosted the Redvers Rockets in the Provincial 'D' South Final March 6.
Phoenix Prpick looks for room to move around a Redvers player. Prpick plays defence for the peewee Huskies, who hosted the Redvers Rockets in the Provincial ‘D’ South Final March 6.

DAVIDSON—The peewee Huskies last Wednesday beat the Watrous Winterhawks in Game1 of the best of three series for the B-side final.

Watrous had the first goal of the game less than three minutes into the first period. Hunter Herback, from Riley Berry, tied the score at 4:10 and then potted another a few minutes later, this time with help from Deiondre Boychuk, to give the Huskies a 2-1 lead. Nolan Allan padded the lead, unassisted to give the Huskies a 3-1 lead heading into the second period.

The Huskies came out scoring with Keegan Shaw, from Kade McConnell, scoring. The Winterhawks responded to close the gap to 4-2 for Davidson. With three minutes left in the period, Allan, from Phoenix Prpick, scored to give Davidson the 5-2 lead.

In the third period the Winterhawks came out scoring putting in two goals in the first two minutes of the period. Allan had his third goal of the game at the 10-minute mark to give the Huskies a 6-4 lead. The Winterhawks pulled their goalie in an effort to close the gap. Allan scored the empty netter for the 7-4 lead. The Winterhawks managed a goal with 13 seconds remaining but it wasn’t enough.

Game 2 of the best of three game series is set for Monday, March 23 in Davidson.