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Williston headed out on their eighth straight road trip on Wednesday to take on a much improved Worcester Hilltopper club at the Worcester Ice Center.\u00a0 Xander Rogers got the nod for the Wildcats and was excellent when he needed to be.\u00a0 Williston dominated much of the play but a stingy Nathan Pickett in goal for Worcester had Williston in fits for two periods.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until early in the third that Williston was able to tie the game and then pull away.<\/p>\n
Williston came out in the first period with solid pressure controlling much of the play.\u00a0 While they outshot Worcester 18-5 in the period, Williston\u2019s shot selection was not daunting and Pickett had easy work for many of the opportunities and frustrated the Williston offense.\u00a0 With time running out in the first and a Williston power play nearing an end, an errant pass was picked off by a Worcester forward at the Williston blue line who then stormed toward Rogers and was able to beat him on the short side.\u00a0 Williston was stunned after territorially dominating the play.\u00a0 However, with just 33 seconds remaining in the period, Williston looked to tie up the game on a tipped shot by Cam Jefferson.\u00a0 However, the referees were forced to confer due to the net being off its moorings.\u00a0 The Williston coaching staff failed to get the officials to see their way and soon after the goal was called off. Williston entered the end of the period licking its wounds and hoping for a change in the second.<\/p>\n
In the next frame, both Williston and Worcester traded power play opportunities with Williston gaining the edge in calls for.\u00a0 But much to the chagrin of the Williston faithful, the Wildcats could not find the back of the net.\u00a0 Rogers made some key saves and kept the score within one.<\/p>\n
After a Saban-esque speech between the second and third period, Williston began the period on the warpath and five minutes into the frame Kyle Caddo drove from behind the net, used his Shaquille O\u2019Neal-like reach and finally broke the enigma in net.\u00a0 Brandon McGill earned the assist.\u00a0 A little over two minutes later, McGill found his scoring ways tipping a blast from Logan Geisness off a pass from Tim Rego on the power play.\u00a0 Williston was finding the light.\u00a0 Then, four minutes later Caddo made a pass out of the left corner that McGill put in.\u00a0 Caddo was not done.\u00a0 Having been sick of seeing a zero next to his name in the points\u2019 column, he decided to make a dandy pass to James Belleavoine who let a ripper go from the slot securing the win, 4-1.<\/p>\n
Xander Rogers faced 21 shots but Williston outshot the Hilltoppers, with 38.\u00a0 Kyle Caddo did New Jersey proud by earning the game \u201cpen\u201d for his work (1g, 2a).\u00a0 (Worcester game pucks were impossible to come by at the sound of the buzzer.)<\/p>\n
On Friday, Williston completed its 9th<\/sup> straight road game at Winchendon.\u00a0 Kayaks were needed at times for the rains were plenty and the creeks were running like the mighty Genesee River in springtime in Upstate New York.\u00a0 With under an hour to get ready, Williston took the ice behind a willing and able Greg Iverson who had defeated Winchendon in a shootout at the St. Sebastian\u2019s Tournament at Christmas.\u00a0 Iverson continued his run defeating the Wapitis 3-2 behind a 25 save performance.<\/p>\n Williston entered the campaign ready to manage a game against a high-powered offense whose top line had scored 31 points in its last three games.\u00a0 With a strict game plan and a disciplined core of players, Williston took a 1-0 lead when Logan Geisness took a pass from behind the net from Billy Smith and buried it past Winchendon goalie, James Corcoran.\u00a0 Connor Canterbury would get the second assist.<\/p>\n In the second, Hunter Sarro scored an unassisted goal when he stripped a puck away from a defender at the Winchendon blueline and rifled a shot that beat Corcoran to the blocker side.\u00a0 Winchendon would get a greasy power play goal from a shot that deflected off a Williston defender beating Iverson.\u00a0 However, thanks to some nifty passing and puck control, Sam Milnes and Canterbury were able to find Kevin Lassman\u2014the Florida Kid\u2014in the slot who beat Corcoran cleanly.\u00a0 While Lassman\u2019s celebration looked like a surfer on roller skates\u2014Williston was happy and took a 3-1 lead into the dressing room.<\/p>\n Winchendon would get another goal in the third period but Williston was up to the challenge defeating Winchendon 3-2.\u00a0 For his efforts and the game winner, Hunter Sarro earned the game puck.<\/p>\n On Saturday afternoon, the Lossone faithful welcomed back its club when Williston took on Berkshire to complete its two-game season series.\u00a0 Williston came out guns blazing and outplayed Berkshire for much of the first period.\u00a0 At the 4:14 mark of the period, Billy Smith took a puck just inside the right circle and let go a bomb that beat Berkshire goalie Tom Draper high on the blocker side.<\/p>\n In the second period, Williston built onto its lead when Sam Milnes was able to send David Novotny in on a breakaway beating Draper low on the blocker side.\u00a0 Then, just under two minutes later on the power play, Brendan Hansen went thin mints on the right hand side finding daylight over Draper\u2019s shoulder.\u00a0 Berkshire would get a goal late in the second period but Williston would take a 3-1 lead into the dressing room at the end of the second.<\/p>\n In the third, Williston played some stingy defense keeping Berkshire off the board for the remainder of the game.\u00a0 Post-grad Cam Jefferson sealed the deal with 15:18 left in the frame when he nipped top corner.\u00a0 The Belmont native flew down the left side and let a shot go from inside the dot.\u00a0 The defensive pair of Connor Power and Tim Rego received the assists.\u00a0 For his efforts, Jefferson earned the game puck.\u00a0 Xander Rogers stopped 24\/25 shots.<\/p>\n Make sure to dust off your snowmobile on Wednesday as Williston takes on the Vermont Wildcats at Lossone at 4:30.\u00a0 Tickets are selling out fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Williston headed out on their eighth straight road trip on Wednesday to take on a much improved Worcester Hilltopper club at the Worcester Ice Center.\u00a0 Xander Rogers got the nod for the Wildcats and was excellent when he needed to be.\u00a0 Williston dominated much of the play but a stingy Nathan Pickett in goal … Continue reading Williston Takes Six Points in Three-Game Week: Wildcats top the Hilltoppers, Wapitis, and Bears<\/span>