CENTRAL NEW YORK – Whatever else happens this season, it’s doubtful the Cazenovia ice hockey team will experience anything as exciting as last Wednesday’s battle with Fayetteville-Manlius at the SUNY-Morrisville IcePlex.
It would go back and forth all night, both sides producing plenty of end-to-end action, but in the end resolving nothing as the Lakers and Hornets tied 7-7.
Shamus Newcomb got Cazenovia in front early in the first period, only to have F-M counter with three unanswered goals, two of them by Greg Manzi.
Trailing 3-1, the Lakers made its own surge early in the second with four goals from four different players, yet could not contain Manzi, who pulled off a natural hat trick and worked his goal total to five by period’s end.
The Hornets led, 6-5, going to the third, but in continuing the game’s theme the Lakers netted the tying and go-ahead goals, only to see Will Sanzone pull F-M even again late in regulation with his second goal of the night.
Neither side was able to convert in OT, Cazenovia seeing seven different players earn its seven goals and Tucker Ives finish the night with 37 saves, two less than Hornets counterpart Chris Finger.
Jack Donlin, with three assists, and Forrest Ives, with two assists, led the balanced Lakers attack as they joined Newcomb, Logan Hull, Cam Scheilber, Bryson Weaver and Braden Carnahan in the goal-scoring column.
This was just the first of three games in four nights for the Lakers, who went to State Fair Coliseum 24 hours later to face Liverpool and, doing its all of its damage in the early going, beat the Warriors 4-2.
Twice in the first period, Hull struck for goals, with Donlin also finding the net to go with an assist and then adding a second-period tally to give his side a 4-0 edge. Scheibler, Weaver and Forrest Ives also had assists.
Though Evan Haskins and Erol Abadzic earned third-period goals from Liverpool, it didn’t put much consistent pressure of Ezra Stahlberg, who finished with 12 saves.
Then in Saturday’s game against Ithaca at the IcePlex, the Lakers prevailed again, riding a quick start to an eventual 3-2 victory over the Little Red.
Ives got the Lakers in front in the first period, deflecting a Newcomb pass home, and then Ives assisted when Donlin made it 2-0 later in the period.
Ithaca got on the board early in the second, but Ives answered it, which gave the Lakers a 3-1 edge before the Little Red pulled back within one before intermission.
All through the third, Ithaca tried to pull even, but could not do so, Tucker Ives eventually gaining 16 saves and the Lakers improving to 7-6-1 ahead of games this week against Fulton and CBA/Jamesville-DeWitt.
