Frontenac Flyers Peewee squad heading to Ilderton in rematch of last year’s final

Craig Bakay | Mar 11, 2020

There was a point in the second period of last Friday night’s Peewee Flyers game won 5-2 over the Shelburne Wolves that may have summed up the entire season.

At that point, the game could have gone either way, as it had been a back-and-forth, end-to-end match so far.

After a goal-mouth scramble and subsequent scrum in the Shelburne end, Flyers Drake Thomas, not the largest man on the squad by any means, was shoved by a Wolf that was a good two heads taller. Thomas, didn’t back down in the slightest bumping the bigger lad right back and staring him down (er, up) to boot.

“He’s all heart,” Flyers head coach Al Pixley said of Thomas. “The whole team is.”

Shortly after that incident, the Wolves got a little chippy and found themselves down two men.

The Flyers didn’t score with the two-man advantage, the aforementioned Thomas notched one just after the second penalty expired, giving the Flyers a lead they’d never relinquish.

The first period was an entertaining, evenly matched contest. Braden Dillon opened the scoring with 6:20 left but Shelburne chipped in a rebound with 3 seconds left.

Thomas’s score at the 8:30 mark made the score 2-1 and Ryder Mallet made it 3-1 with 3:02 left but the Wolves got one back at 2:57.

There were some tense moments in the third but at 10:22, Jack Pixley made it 4-2 Flyers. Pixley then added a power play marker at 3:34 to make the final 5-2.

“There were a couple of moments but we really took it to them in the third,” Al Pixley said.

The Flyers now travel to Ilderton March 14 and 15 before returning to Frontenac Community Arena for games 3 and 4 March 21 and 22. If necessary, Game 5 would be in Ilderton March 28 and Game 6 in Frontenac March 29.

The series will be a rematch of last year’s final, which Frontenac won 3 games to 2.

“We’ve played Ilderton a couple of times this year,” Pixley said. “We’ll have our hands full.”