Tomahawks All-Star Game & AAABA Recaps

Good Evening,

Tonight's post combines two local events all bunched into one, the Tomahawks All-Star game and the AAABA tournament.

Tomahawks All-Star Game Recap, Team Red Def. Team Blue 6-3

Opening day is 48 days away, but a large crowd of Tomahawks fans made their way to Planet Ice in Richland Township for the Johnstown Tomahawks Main Tryout Camp All-Star Game Sunday Afternoon. Fans filled the stands and welcomed the future stars of this year's team onto the ice. The players were split into two teams, Red and Blue. They played three 30 minute periods with a running clock and a short intermission between periods.

The game was physical early on, and the first goal was scored by team red on the power-play at 16:01. Heinz Koster got credit for the goal with the assists to Eric Tien and J.B. Baker. Team Red extended their lead to 2-0 on an Evan Ketner goal, assisted by Joe Drabin and Shane Bernard at 22:45. The two teams exchanged chances early in the second period, but the goaltenders were solid, stopping everything in their paths. With less than seven minutes in the period, team blue got on the board on a Casey Linkenheld goal, assisted by Connor Gilmartin and Forest Donovan. Less than 30 seconds later, Ilya Ignatenko extended the team red lead to 3-1, with the assist provided by Griffin Leach. Early in the third period, the game saw its first fight when Jake Fairchild and Leach dropped the gloves just 1:07 into the period. At 6:25, Vincent Guimond made it a 4-1 game, with the assist going to Baker, his second of the game. Baker would add a goal of his own at 12:27 to give himself three points in the game. Gilmartin and Brandon Reinholz would drop the gloves at 25:09 of the third period, before back-to-back penalties were issued to Marc Guimond and Ketner. With four minutes to go in the game, Fairchild gave team blue their second goal of the game, with the assists going to Jacob Soyka and Tyler Basham. Within the last 90 seconds of the game, the teams exchanged goals with Connor Jonason scoring at 28:30 and Forest Donavan scoring 20 seconds later, to set the final at 6-3.

Overall, both teams played very well, putting it all on the line for today's game. It appeared to me that the coaches will have some tough decisions to make to get the final roster that will take the ice on September 14th when the Port Huron Fighting Falcons for the start of the 2013-14 season. After seeing what I saw today, it appears that this team will be fast, physical, and fun to watch this season.

Delweld Wins 2013 Johnstown AAABA League Title with 15-9 Win

Through the first 6 1/2 innings of Saturday night's game at Point Stadium, it appeared that Martella's Pharmacy was going to extend the best-of-five Johnstown AAABA League championship series to a fourth game. Delweld had other plans, scoring six runs in both the 7th and 8th innings to defeat Martella's 15-9 and sweep the series 3-0. The win gives them the league title and the honor of representing Johnstown in the AAABA National Tournament and playing in the night game each night. Martella's will also make the tournament, but will be known as Flood City and will play in the afternoon at the Point. Click here to see the Martella's GameChanger page from last night's game.

-The Flood City Sports Fan