CrossFit Belleville Bantams Headed to OMHA’s, News, Major Bantam, 2015-2016 (Quinte Red Devils)

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Mar 06, 2016 | mickandrews | 2146 views
CrossFit Belleville Bantams Headed to OMHA’s
The CrossFit Belleville Bantams staged an epic series come back against the top Team in the ETA, after they gift wrapped game three for the Barrie Colts, giving them a 2-1 series lead in the best of five.

In Barrie, the Red Devils would open the scoring and maintain a lead headed into the second period. Penalty trouble would not favour the Bantams and Barrie found themselves in the lead part way through the second after taking a 2-1 lead but as this team has done many times in the past they battled back and tied the game late in the frame.

A few unfortunate bounces and a 5 on 3 opportunity gave the Barrie Colts the 4-2 victory. Ethan Taylor was in net for the loss but played well enough to win and deserved a better fate. Ethan made several beautiful and timely saves that kept the score closer than the scoreboard showed and was the main reason the Bantams didn’t lose by a larger deficit. The goals were scored by Cameron Supryka and Derrick Vos while assists went to Emmet Pierce, Daniel Panetta, Bailey Matthews and Ryan Loiselle.

The loss set the stage for the weekend match up/comeback as Barrie travelled to Madoc to face the Red Devils in a win or be eliminated game for Quinte. The Red Devils opened the scoring in the first few moments of the game but Barrie came right back to tie the game. This team has become very #Resilient in the second half of the season and sometimes gets bent back but doesn’t break. The Bantams would take the lead for good just before the first period ended. The defensive core of Carden Guerin, Connor Kennedy, Zach Uens, Keegan Hunt, Derrick Vos and Cameron Supryka limited the offensive chances for Barrie and stymied the most potent offence in the ETA. Brennan Bush was in net for the victory and made some key saves early on to keep the Bantams in the game.

The CrossFit Belleville Bantams would win 4-1, tying the series 2-2 in front of a crazed fan base in Madoc, goals were scored by Cameron Supryka, Michael Andrews(2) and Emmet Pierce while assists went to Derrick Vos, Emmet Pierce, Jake Campbell and Bailey Matthews.

This series has been a “homers” series as each home team has won all of the games and if the CrossFit Belleville Bantams were going to go to the OMHA’s through the Front Door they needed to win on Barrie’s turf. The Bantams struggled early in the opening moments of the game and found themselves trailing 1-0 early on. As they have done so many times before they battled back tying the game before the first period ended which seemed to give them some confidence and erased the nerves of a deciding game. In the second period the Red Devils would take the play to the Colts and lead 3-1 heading into the third period.

Barrie loaded up the line on the opening face-off of the third period and were rewarded with a goal and now only trailed by one with over 18 minutes remaining in the game. Would this be a breaking point for the Bantams or an opportunity to showcase their #Resilient efforts and make a statement to the ETA. There were several moments of potential opportunity for panic (in the crowd anyways) but the boys played a completely controlled system and held their composure when Barrie was forcing the play.

The CrossFit Belleville Bantams would skate to a 3-2 win, a victory that sent them straight to the OMHA Championships on March 11 – 13 in Barrie. The goals were scored by Bailey Matthews, Derrick Vos and Michael Andrews while assists went to Nolan Seto, Ryan Loiselle, Logan White(2), Emmet Pierce and Connor Kennedy.

This team showed everyone #DEFENCEWINSCHAMPIONSHIPS and after the game is over, the articles are written, it’s the team willing to play total defence and go that extra six inches in front of your face to play defensively that wins the games.