It took 15 minutes for the Cape Elizabeth hockey team to start playing the way they wanted in the season opener at Lake Region on Saturday. And then the defending Class B state champions rallied from a 3-1 first period deficit to ease past the Lakers for an 11-4 win at the Bridgton Academy ice arena.
The Capers outshot the Lakers 51-11 and the Capers scored on four of their eight power play opportunities. Cape entered the final period with a 5-4 lead and they scored six unanswered goals in the first nine minutes of the third period to secure the victory.
Sether Hanson led the way for Cape with three goals and Andrew Gibson added a goal and three assists.
Scarborough scored two goals in the first period and two goals in the second en route to a 6-1 win over Kennebunk on Saturday at the USM ice arena.
Brian York got the Red Storm rolling with a goal at 5:36 of the first (from Quirk and Steve Cook) and then Mike Dakers added a power play goal (from Jason Cook and Brent Mayo) before the period ended to send Scarborough to the middle period with a 2-0 edge.
Dakers scored another power play goal (from Mayo and Nate Gadbois) midway through the second period and Cook found the net 38 seconds later with another power play tally.
Dakers completed his hat trick with a goal at 1:38 of the third period (from Gadbois and Mayo). And Ben Talbot scored the Red Storm’s final goal (from Steve Cook and York) with 6:44 to play. Kennebunk managed a late power play goal to avoid the shutout.
South Portland used a four-goal second period to surge past visiting Sanford for an 8-5 win on Saturday night at the Portland Ice Arena.
Nick Griffin scored the Red Riots first goal of the year – an unassisted shorthanded goal – at 9:42 of the first period. Nick Fornwalt added another South Portland goal (from Dustin Matthews and James Keenan) less than a minute later to give the Riots a brief 2-1 lead. Sanford tied the game in the final minute of the first period.
South Portland then used two goals by Griffin, another by Bobby Basinet and one more from Daniel Maietta (from Griffin) to send the Riots to the third period with a commanding 6-2 edge.
Fornwalt and Matthews added insurance goals in the third period. Rob Morong and Tyler Bickford shared goalkeeping duties for the Riots.
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