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February 14, 2015 - Federal Prospects Hockey League (FPHL) News Release
Rivera's Hat Trick Powers Dayton Past Berkshire, 7-3
The Dayton Demonz looked to stay atop the Federal Hockey League standings on Friday night as the Berkshire Battalion came to town. The Demonz hadn't played since a 2-1 overtime setback at Danville last Saturday, but that didn't stop the club from a fast start. Ahmed Mahfouz scored a short-handed goal just 59 seconds into the game. The goal was his 23rd of the year, assisted by Jared Hicks and Peter Cintala. This was the catalyst to a 7-3 Dayton victory.
Midway through the initial period, Mark Rivera skated in from the left of Berkshire's Stephen Messina and blew one over the right shoulder of the befuddled goaltender to give Dayton a 2-0 lead. The lead swelled to three with a little less than eight minutes to go in the period on a goal by Jared Hicks. Berkshire's leading scorer, Michael Dolman, finally got his team on the board with 44 seconds to play in the first. This made the score 3-1 after one period.
The Battalion closed the gap to 3-2 after only 38 seconds of the second on Forward Michael Kaselouskas' goal from inside the left circle. The Demonz quickly got their three goal cushion back, however. First, Rivera scored his second of the night, pushing the lead to 4-2. Then, Mahfouz notched his second of the game seconds later. Suddenly, the lead was 5-2.
Lester Brown added to the scoring when he fooled Messina on the backhand, making it a four goal lead at 6-2. Berkshire's Vladyslav Gavrik got one past Dan McWhinney before the period was over and the teams headed for intermission with Dayton comfortably in front, 6-3.
Rivera went top shelf 9:31 into the third for his hat trick and a 7-3 lead.
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Niedert Stymies Former Team, Leads Watertown Past Whalers
DANBURY -- Former Danbury Whalers goalie Nick Niedert got the best of his former team Friday night, leading the Watertown Wolves to a 5-2 victory in Federal Hockey League play at the Danbury Arena.
Niedert, who was a key part of the Whalers' success their first three seasons in the league, made 25 saves to seal the win. Justin MacDonald and Cody Dion each scored two goals for the Wolves and Phil Bronner scored one. Watertown scored four straight goals in the second period to erase a 1-0 deficit and take a commanding lead.
Ian DeLong and Sean Maktaak each scored a power-play goal for the Whalers and goalie Mike Brown made 35 saves.
The Whalers will be back in action Saturday when they host the Dayton Demonz at 7:35 at the Danbury Arena.
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Dashers Winning Streak Reaches Double Digits
The Steel City Warriors came to Danville on Friday night to take on the Dashers. The Dashers came into the game riding a 9 game winning streak, they pushed it to 10 games tonight against Steel City. The Dashers started quick and got on the board off a power play goal from Andrew Harrison. Justin Levac, Gehrett Sargis, and Joe Pace scored the next 3 goals for the Dashers respectively. The Dashers lead 4-0 after the first period.
Aleh Shypitsyn converted on a breakaway about five minutes into the period to put the Dashers up 5-0. Then, Andrew Harrison scored his second goal of the contest to shoot Danville to a 6-0 lead. Just after the Harrison goal, the Dashers found themselves on the penalty kill. However, this didn't stop the offense of Danville. Dan Turgeon scored on a quick wrist shot and made it 7-0. That 7-0 score would hold up to be the final score of the night. The Dashers are back in action tomorrow night against the Berkshire Battalion.
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