GAME SUMMARY: Hogs Win!

Sunday night the Hogs took to the....floor....against a very talented Havoc team. Tonight, however was not a good night to be playing the Sweat Hogs. Equipped with a solid line-up, complimented with a last minute spare in Mike Henter, proved to be too much for the Havoc squad to handle, as the Hogs put up 8 goals for a solid 8-4 victory.

Henter opened the scoring in the first after the Hogs were down quickly 2-0. (Some disorganization as the lines were not set, being short 2 people to start the game - everyone arrived soon). Henter took a feed from Cox on the right wing and fed it top shelf to cut the lead in half. Once the full team arrived, Henter was placed on a line with Dom Peluso and Jeff Barton, and they put together some nice offense to get us another goal quickly to tie things up. Havoc would storm back and take the lead with 45 seconds left in the half. In a desperate play to tie things up before the half ended, the Energy line of Bedford, Cox and Menchions put up another nice goal. Bedford won the draw and moved it forward to Cox, who reached forward with one hand and poked it towards the net. Menchions cashed in on the rebound to tie things with 10 seconds left in the break.

The score being 3-3 in the half, and the final being 8-4, I don't have to tell you much about the second half. Both lines played extremely well, with the energy line collecting 2 more goals from Bedford, one on a nice wrister top shelf on a feed from Mike Peluso on D, and another on a fluke back hand that eluded the Havoc netminder. But it was the play of Henter, Peluso and Barton that put on a show, keeping the ball on a string, ripping many shots top shelf to find the back of the net and put Havoc on their heels.

With 45 seconds left, Havoc inexplicably called a timeout, but it was way too late and the Hogs had done the damage. Our D in particular did a fantastic job of shutting down the Havoc snipers, and jumping in on the play down low and in the offensive zone. And Dave came up huge making several key saves, at times getting bombarded with shots and having his crease crashed.

Next game is in 2 weeks, at 10:20 PM against the Maniacs.