Adam Prudhomme
Editor
Soren Zamuner scored twice while Alex Zamuner turned away 30 shots to help the Napanee Raiders to a 6-3 home win over the Frankford Huskies on Friday night at the SPC.
Ben Carter and Blake Aylesworth spotted the Raiders a 2-0 lead with goals at the 12:23 and 13:12 mark of the first period.
That score held until Jacob Tinney got the visitors on the board just shy of the halfway point of the middle frame. Noah Westwater restored the Raider two goal lead just over two minutes later only to see Frankford’s Jon Waselko bring the Huskies back to within one at 14:41.
Napanee began to pull away in the final two minutes of the second as Soren Zamuner scored his first of the game followed just over a minute later by one from Marshall McFarland.
Zamuner put the game out of reach with a goal 12 minutes into the third to push the lead to 6-2. The Huskies’ Curtis Dicks would cut the lead in half just under two minutes later, but it wasn’t nearly enough.
For the Raiders the win was a bit of revenge after dropping their previous two meeting to the Huskies. After a bit of a hot stretch that saw them win two straight over the league’s top team, the Huskies have now gone cold, even going so far as to drop a match against the Campbellford Rebels late last month, accounting for the just the second win on the season for the Rebels. Overall the Huskies have dropped three of their last four.
Meanwhile Napanee, after going through a relative rough patch, has now strung together three straight wins.
Friday’s action was the lone game on the schedule for Napanee, who will have had a full week’s rest before the hit the ice this coming Friday when they host the Picton Pirates. Puck drop at the SPC is 7:30 p.m. On Saturday the Raiders hit the road to face the Port Hope Panthers, also at 7:30 p.m.
Now 30-4-1 on the season, the Raiders have first place locked up as they play out the final seven games of the regular season. The Amherstview Jets remain comfortably in second at 23-12-2, good for 48 points and a 13 point lead over the Picton Pirates, who are 16-12-3 on the season, but also hold six games in hand over the Jets. The Panthers also boast 35 points with a record of 16-15-3, having played three more games than Picton.
The Huskies are fifth are 15-18-1, four back of Picton and Port Hope. The Campbellford Rebels remain last at 2-29-2 with six points.