PEE WEE FURY SPLIT THE WEEK

This past week the Fury played a couple of games in their Zone 6 Ontario Lacrosse Association schedule, and game out of the week with an even 1-1 record, bringing their season record to a 3-3-2 status.  On Wednesday night, the team travelled down highway 7 to face the Peterborough Laker squad.  In what only can be called the starting of a very fierce rivalry, the Peterborough squad came away with 6-3 victory, to avenge an earlier loss in the season to the Fury.  This game between these 2 teams was very chippy and rough, with a lot of bitterness that has more then likely created a dislike for each other.  The Fury, although not as big as the Peterborough squad would not back down from the intimidation tactics, but in the long run, a defensive letdown, as well as the fatigue factor, spelled the demise of the Fury.  Scoring for the Fury were Thomas Weber with 2 and Liam Newton with 1, while assists went to Zach Gilmore, Nic Williams, and Riley Smith.
 
On Thursday night, it was a totally different team that travelled to Stouffville to face the Markham Thunder.  Things did not start off well though, as the referees were 30 minutes late, and then when the game did start, on their very first possession of the opening face off, the Thunder ran down the floor and scored on their first shot.  Markham controlled the play for most of the first period, and their second shot was a bullet drive that nailed the goalie for the Fury, Mac Langford, right between the eyes.  According to goalie Langford, "that woke me up, and boy can that kid shoot."  Well, that shot must have woke the whole team up as well, as from that point on, the Fury picked up their game and took it to the Thunder, avenging a home loss to them earlier, by beating them in their own rink by a score of 6-3.  The Fury seem to be able to set up for the shot that they wanted almost at will, and the defence allowed Langford to see most of the shots, which aided in the victory.  Scoring for the Fury were Nic Hepburn and Craig Shier with 2 each, and singles too Liam Newton and Nic Williams.  There was a single assist, and that went to Sam McGrisken. 
 
The Fury are off next week, just practising a couple of times to get ready for their next action, which will be a Father's Day tournament in Stayner.  Their next league action, will take place on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 7:30pm, when they will host the Peterborough Lakers....





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