Story by Brock Ormond
Photo: Blake Berthiaume notched his first OJHL goal in an 8-6 loss on Sunday versus the Stouffville Spirit. (Photo Credit: Wellington Dukes)
The nets got a workout in Wellington on a snowy Sunday afternoon.
The Stouffville Spirit outgunned the Dukes 8-6 at Lehigh Arena, with Stouffville getting the winning goal within the final seven or so minutes of regulation time.
The wild day started with a 2-2 deadlock after 20 minutes, with Zach Carrier floating home his 14th of the year and Ethan Murray burying a rebound for his ninth, working around a pair from the Spirit.
In the second, Jacob Martineau buried a powerplay goal and Lucas Demiglio scored just over a minute later to bump the Spirit ahead by two, before Evan Erwin broke away for a shorthanded marker for his fifth of the season.
The goals kept coming when Dylan Turcotte re-established the two-goal bulge and Will Mitchell popped in his second of the year to cut the deficit back down to one.
Martineau added one more to complete the hat trick before the period was out, but the Dukes weren’t about to go away easily.
Blake Berthiaume sent home his first goal as a Duke, followed by the equalizer from Landon Marleau on a powerplay, but Nathan McKee answered just 42 seconds later to finally put Stouffville ahead for good.
Lucas Demiglio buried an empty-netter to round out a busy scoring summary.
Carrier, Murray, Marleau, Mitchell, Cole Ellis and Sacha Trudel all registered multiple points.
Colby Booth-Housego stopped 34 of 41 shots as the Dukes dropped to 7-9-2-4 on the season, ahead of a three-in-three weekend starting in Niagara Falls on Friday at 7 p.m.
