Hockey is one of the biggest and fastest growing winter sports this side of basketball and we have a generous amount of hockey played in this state, much of which involves many of the youth of the Midcoast. The Maine Coast Skaters Association, with home ice at Midcoast Recreation Center in Rockport, is for kids of all ages. Local high school varsity team Camden Hills plays on MRC ice, as well as the club Ice Cats, which includes high school athletes from Knox and Waldo counties. Then there is college hockey and the Portland Pirates professional team. Hockey is a sport for Maine.

Every Monday the Pen Bay Pilot will do a feature story from the weekend of hockey games along with scores, recaps and news about hockey.

Coaches are encouraged to send results to ronhawkes@penabypilot.com. The weekly article is meant to help provide the best coverage possible of the sport of hockey.

Feature Game - Squirt Tier 3
Maine Gladiators 4, MCSA Storm 4… This was an exciting matchup of teams with the Maine Gladiators from the Lewiston/Auburn area traveled to Rockport to take on the MCSA Storm Squirt T3 team Sunday morning.

In a back and forth battle the two teams fought to a 4-4 stalemate when time expired leaving the game at a tie.

MCSA Storm got goals from Kevin Moreau, Levi Guay, Nolan Delehney and Jacob Johnsom. Hayden Thibeault had one assist.

Scoring for the Gladiators were, Nick Pomerleau (2); and Keenan St. Pierre and Ryan Thibault one each. Cole Savardand Lucas Pushard had one assist each.

Andrew Orne was in goal for the Storm , while Matt Gosselin and Matt Fletcher split the duties for the Gladiators.

The Gladiators took an early lead scoring just :28 seconds into the game when Pomerleau scored the first of two goals for the 1-0 lead. Pomerleau made it 2-0 with his second goal 3:13 into the first period.

The Storm cut the lead to 2-1 to end the first period on a goal from Moreau unassisted.

The Gladiators too a 3-1 lead 3:15 into the second period on a goal from St. Pierre. However the Storm came right back with a goal one minute later from Guay and tied the game at 3-3 11:46 into the period on a goal from Delehney.

Johnsom gave the Storm its first lead of the game in the third period when he scored 4:51 into the final stanza. That lead held up until Thibault scored for the Gladiators 8:41 into the period tying the score at 4-4. Both teams had scoring opportunities throughout the remainder of the game, but were unable to crease the net.

The MCSA Storm Squirts T3 team goes to 3-1-1 on the season.

Gladiators-------2---1---1---4
Storm------------1---2---1---4

Click here for the Photo Gallery from the feature game

Other game scores from MCSA
Saturday, Nov. 17
Squirts T3
MCSA Storm 4, Casco Bay 2
Squirts T4
PVHC 7, MCSA Storm 0
Peewee T3
Gladiators 5, MCSA Storm 1
Peewee T4
Titans PW 4, MCSA Storm 2
Bantam T3
MCSA Storm 3, Casco Bay Black 2
Bantam T4
PVHC Blue 4, MCSA Storm 1

Sunday, Nov. 18
Peewee T3
MCSA Storm 10, Portland  1
Girls 19U
MCSA Storm 9, Sam Girls 1

Adult League Hockey
Starting October 7th, games occur every Sunday night starting at 6:40 and run consecutively for 23 weeks.

Upcoming Adult League Game Schedule
Sunday, Nov. 25
6:40 PM - Shed City vs The Mariners
7:50 PM - Envision Sports vs Fighting Oysters
9:00 PM - Seahawks vs. The Beavers

High School Hockey
Monday, Nov. 19 marks the start of the high school season with tryouts at Camden Hills. Good luck to everyone!

Portland Pirates
The Pirates have gone 3-4 on Nov. including the 2-1 loss to the Providence Bruins Saturday night in Portland.

This week the Pirates have four games, Tuesday, Nov. 20 and Friday Nov. 23 at home against Manchester and Springfield respectively and Saturday, Nov. 24 at Worcester and Sunday, Nov. 25 at Manchester.

UMaine Hockey
The University of Maine hockey program is struggling this season having amassed a 2-9-1 record so far this season including Friday night’s 2-2 tie to UMass.

Maine returns to action on Friday, Nov. 30 when it hosts Vermont at 8 PM at Alfond Arena.
 
PenBayPilot sports reporter /photographer Ron Hawkes can be reached at ronhawkes@penbaypilot.com; or by phone at 207-956-0079 (home office) 975-2311 (cell)