Last Friday, the Eagles hosted a Western Pickney United squad ready for battle. Adam (Beast) Trzcinski drilled home a rebound off a gritty Ryan Danielson shot to kick off scoring for LHS. Brennan Grant scored on a powerplay rebound (assist to Austin Scanlon) to end the period at 2-0. WLP scored a sloppy goal thanks to sloppy ice 10 seconds into the 2nd period but it was Captains Grant and Tim Hinkle to the rescue combining for a short handed goal to pad the LHS lead. The Warrior-Pirates answered to pull within one after 2 periods.

Lakeland scoring then switched to 'On' and WLP could not pull the plug. Grant started the scoring on a nice tip from Brendan Day and Hinkle. Bryce Martin added a neat goal from the point (assist to sophomore Nate Dell). Then Hinkle scored his second and third goals of the night. The second goal came off a nice feed from Scanlon and the hattrick goal was served up on a dirty dish from Grant when he fooled everyone but Hinkle who stayed home and shoveled in the 7th for LHS. Dell finished off the scoring for the night with a lone effort tic-tac-toe dragging his way through most of the WLP skaters to send the WLP faithful heading for the exits. Final score Lakeland 8 WLP 4.

Coach Ronayne: "We liked how the efforts by our forwards defensively turned into scoring chances. Our forecheck was better tonight and we put pucks and warm bodies to the net. Trzcinski and Danielson quietly had a very good games - getting to pucks and putting in hard work. Verbick and Kintz both showed more grit tonight too so that will help us going forward. Grant and Hinkle had 10 points? Say no more."