Holes Shut Out

Unfriended goalie Seamus "Moose" Moody arrives at the rink approximately one hour before each game.  He cranks up the tunes, stretches, works with an agility ball, and mentally prepares for each game by envisioning shooters and making saves.  On Thursday night, that preparation, along with some stingy Unfriended team defense and back-checking, earned TU their first shutout of the season, with Team Unfriended defeating the Ice Holes 11-0 on Thursday night at the MSA.  "Mean" Dean Bender had another multi-point night, scoring 5 goals, including the game-winner.

Bender got the scoreboard primed at 17:03 with a wicked wrister that beat Ice Hole goalie Joe Renfro high, glove-side.  Joey Blom scored next off a feed from Maggie Cearley at 7:46.  The first period ended 2-0 with Unfriended out-shooting their opponent 7-6.

Blue forward Sean "Antz" Yemen notched a tally at 16:51 of the second.  His goal was unassisted.  Bender scored his second of the night 10 minutes later with assists going to Maggie and Mary Cearley.  At 3:38, Ryan Yemen wristed a shot through crease traffic that beat Renfro to put the Blue up by half a dozen.  Mean Dean got the hattie three seconds later, unassisted.  SOGs in the second were 21-3 in favor of Unfriended.

In the third, TU picked up where they left off.  Using the points on offense and good perimeter movement, they put relentless pressure on Green and rained shots on Renfro from all lanes in the OZ.  Blom scored his second goal of the night at 15:31.  Bender lit the lamp at 14:47 for his fourth of the contest.  Defenseman Jeremy "The Jookster" Webb got into the action when he rushed the puck to the net and beat Renfro with a pretty backhand shot that put Blue up 9-0.  Webb was assisted by Maggie Cearley.  Forward Nick Karr scored at the 7-minute mark and Deaner put the baby to bed with his 5th tally of the night at 5:37.  TU puck control and stifling defense kept Green's shots to just 17 for the contest, while generating 41 SOGs.  TU was perfect on the PK, going 3/3, but were 0/1 on the PP.

Team Unfriended take on Sour Grapes at 5:15PM on Sunday, May 6th at the MSA.