January 21 Game Report

Thunder dropped their first game of the new year on the road to Webster, where life is supposedly worth living, losing 4-2 to the Warriors with a rather uninspired effort at Boulter Palace. One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. So much for building towards the weekend. Winning takes focus and it appeared as if the boys' focus was elsewhere. Other than seeing freshman John Clark have his break-out game for Thunder, it was pretty much all Shroeder as they outshot Thunder 9-7, 7-5, 7-6, for a 3-period total of 23-18.

Justin Simonelli rang the bell first, assisted by the Tonight Show with Curran O'Brien, 5 minutes in. Webster hollered back a minute later when Eric Benson redirected a John Murray point shot past ASim for the goal, assisted by Warrior captain Bradford Viola. Two minutes more saw Webster take the lead on the powerplay when freshman Nathan Schuler batted in a loose puck just outside the paint, assisted by Jeff Diluglio and Ian Jacques, 2-1 Webster. Fast forward to the end of the first frame and Thunder was going on the powerplay themselves with 22.9 on the clock. Vypes and Hebs played 4-corners (well actually two) on the perimeter to run the clock down, lulling the Warriors to sleep, before hooking it to Simmy on the wing for the shot and then Cheese banged home the rebound to knot it at 2's with 10.4 ticks left.

Keough ripped a slapper that hit Montesano "in the faaace" to open the second period, but Ian Jaques brought it back the other way for Webster heading down the right side and beating ASim for the go ahead goal unassisted a buck thirty seven in. Deluglio added the insurance goal with 3.34 to go in the game with a wrister from the blueline that went bar down, assisted by Conrad Ziemendorf and Kevin Rhodes.

First star of the game goes to Webster's Ian Jaques with a goal and assist including the winner. Second star goes to Webster's Jeff Diluglio with one and one for 2 pts. Third star goes to Justin Simonelli with 1+1=2 as well. Thunder's record slips to 6-4-2-1 with this unsightly blemish.