Back-to-back wins for Black Sabres at Friendship Tournament

The Mite Black Sabres had a convincing 9-3 victory over the Court Group Red Jersey team from Burlington on Saturday at the Amherst Pepsi Center.

The team played mixed lines and consequently new lineups. All members of the team adapted well and came out charging.

Goalie Matthew Shiring made some brilliant saves, diving on the puck every time it came his way.

The Black Sabres' first goal came after Nick Carbone had a breakaway but fell and made a shot from the ground that just missed the net. Dan Mosher and Noah Bachwitz tore after the puck. Bachwitz made another shot at goal that just missed and was taken away by the Court Group. Mosher stole it back, shot for the goal, and scored.

Shortly after in the same lineup, a Court Group player broke away, faked out the Black Sabre defense and scored. Mosher made a great blocking attempt by throwing himself on the ice but just missed the puck with his stick.

Aaron Bengart made a great save from a breakaway by the Court Group towards the end of the period, but they stole it back and scored to take a 2-1 lead.

The second period saw the Black Sabres firing shots. Nick Pieri's shot to the net was blocked but Noah Bachwitz was able to keep the puck in the Court Group scoring end. Jacob Ostrowski took control and scored.

Less than a minute later, after a battle between Bachwitz, Noah Rosenthal and the opposition, Rosenthal was able to knock it at the net and score. The next goal came from the Court Group on a breakaway to tie it at 3-3 with 7:28 to go in the second period.

The Black Sabres took control of the game at this time. Zachary Gannon scored two goals in 11 seconds - the first assisted by Spencer Maranto and Bengart, and the second by stealing the puck from the opposition and charging towards the net. The period ended 5-3 in favor of the Black Sabres.

Gannon completed a natural hat trick in the third period with an assist from Bengart who knocked a beautiful shot down the boards that Gannon took to the net.

Mosher scored the next two goals by running with a shot to the boards from Ostrowski and then taking control of a shot to the end zone by Carbone.

Half a minute later, Gannon chased a pass into the Black Sabre scoring zone from Maranto and scored his fourth of the game.

Zachary Gannon took the game puck for the Black Sabres.

Black Sabres 6,

Court Group Black Jerseys 3

The Black Sabres had another great game with all team members contributing.

Jacob Ostrowski returned to the net and played great.

The Black Sabres' first three goals came within a minute in the first period. The first came from Nick Carbone short-handed. Carbone scored on a breakaway.

Tyler Roberto scored the next two goals, the first on a breakaway, the second from a knock from Noah Rosenthal after Nick Pieri had shot it back into the Black Sabre scoring zone.

The Black Sabres were 3-0 ahead at the end of the first period.

The fourth goal came after Noah Bachwitz saved a breakaway from the Court Group in their end zone and shot it to Elliot Whittaker who passed it to Carbone. Carbone raced toward the net and scored his second of the game.

With only 1:09 to go in the second period, the Court Group stole the puck and made a breakaway to score two goals within a minute.

At the end of the second period, the score was 4-2.

In the third period, Dan Mosher took a pass from Whittaker and knocked in to the net to make it 5-2. Within seconds Carbone took a pass from Mosher, shot, got a rebound, and shot again to score his third goal for the game to make it 6-2.

Court Group made a breakaway from the faceoff soon after and managed to flip it over the head of Ostrowski to score their third and final goal.

The last nine minutes of the game saw a lot of hustle and some great play from both teams but no more goals.

Tyler Roberto took the game puck for the Black Sabres.