January 19 Game Report

Greece beat Spencerport 2-1 Tuesday nite at Lakeshore to avenge an earlier loss and even the subway series. Amanda Sherry belted out the anthem honors as Thunder, hosting in their home whites, stared down the Rangers on the opposing blue line, visiting in their road blues. Taco Bell Gordita Crunch of the game came early on when Dan Vyverberg took Derek Schmidt to the wall and rattled the glass in front of the Thunder faithful, forcing a stoppage of play as his check's bucket came off. Shortly thereafter Vyper joined forces with Matt Keough to put the Malachi Crunch on Depetres. Mattle had a couple of quality scoring chances, AC hit a pipe, and Grims logged a harry as Thunder outshot the Rangers 5-3 in the opening frame.

Despite Cumming playing well between the pipes for Greece, Spencerport managed to eke out a PPG midway through the second, when Matt Corey put away the rebound from Mike Leone's screen shot, assisted by Donnie Daka. Two and a half later Thunder drew a 2-man advantage and would convert on both ends. Just nine seconds into Thunder's powerplay, Vyperdasniper walked it in from the point uncontested and beat former teammate Jimmy Allen clean, low glove side, to tie the game, assisted by Steve Hebberect and Justin Simonelli. They say it's important to strike while the iron is hot (or in this case while the rubber is cold) and Simmy did just that as he curled, coiled and unloaded a wrister on net for the go-ahead goal and eventual winner, assisted by Brandon Cheeseman. Thunder went to the box with a minute to go in the second but fear not as Eric Hots was on the job logging a pair of harrys to get us out of the inning. Shots were 13-9 in Ranger favor but Thunder still won the period.

Just as Thunder killed the 25 seconds that carried over from the Rangers powerplay before the break, they went back to the box again and the ensuing kill featured the short-handed stylings of Jared Tam-Grimshaw and Eric Hostetter who took turns clearing the zone. At one point Jared found himself serving in a forward area, cruising through neutral and going in 1 on 4 against the Rangers -- good looks! This sequence prompted a "Yeah-ThunDerrrrr" from Laura B. Phil Amo, Jared Tam-Grimshaw, and John Clark all made solid contributions on the back-end down the stretch. Then, as Spencerport exercised their time-out option with 1.38 to go in the game, Bruce took advantage of the break in action to advertise his fresh homemade chili and 25 cent jumbo wings over the com. Rangers got the extra attacker out but it was to no avail as Hebs pasted his check on the far boards and Thunder held on til the buzzer.

Thunder's record advances to 6-3-2-1 with this well-earned 2-1 come from behind win, where they slightly edged the Rangers 22-20 in shots. Cumming stopped 19 of the 20 he faced, while Allen made 20 saves. First star of the game goes to Justin Simonelli with the winner plus an assist for 2pts. Second star goes to Dan Vyverberg with a goal, two hits, and several harrys. Third star of the game goes to Ian Cumming with 19 saves for his 5th win of the season.