Peterborough Petes Drop First Game of the Season, 3-1 to North Bay Battalion
/The Peterborough Petes get their first loss of the season as the North Bay Batallion earned a road win, 3-1 at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday night.
Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Petes.
The game had a quiet start and remained scoreless after the first period. North Bay outshot the Petes 10-5 heading into the second.
Owen Van Steensel struck first for the Batallaion, sneaking a rebound by Michael Simpson on the powerplay to open the scoring. Petes’ J.R Avon had his chance on a partial breakaway against Winnipeg Jets prospect, Dom DiVincentiis but came up short, keeping Peterborough off the board into the third.
Avon avenged his breakaway chance from a pass off Tucker Robertson to tie the game at 1-1, 15 seconds into the third.
North Bay’s Dalyn Wakely regained the lead from tipped a shot from Paul Christopoulos to make it 2-1 lead halfway through the period. The Petes tried to tie the game but North Bay’s Justin Ertel got an empty-net goal for the insurance goal and the 3-1 win.
Three Stars of the game:
1st star – 16 Owen Van Steensel (Battalion) - 1 goal
2nd star – 31 Michael Simpson (Petes) - 30 Saves
3rd star – 14 Dalyn Wakely (Battalion) - 1 goal
