The Dunnville Junior C Terriers won a much-need 8-6 victory over the Glanbrook Rangers Friday, January 29 to end the regular season.

The Terriers took a bite out of the Rangers in the first, scoring four goals to Glanrook’s one, including Duncan Minor’s effort to get Dunnville on the board first, courtesy of an assist from Tanner McGowan and Nolan Speakman 1:12 into the match. McGowan scored his own powerplay goal not two minutes later on an assist from Chad Beal and Jason Dear. Minor would record his second goal of the night and Dear his second assist 14:44 seconds in, before Glanbrook’s Andrew Solow would finally get his team on the board on a powerplay goal assisted by Tom Cole and Shawn Stringer 17 seconds later. Dunnville was determined not to let Glanbrook close the gap in the first frame, though, and sent Dear in to score an unassisted goal before the end of the period.

The second frame opened with two goals from Glanbrook (the first 4:31 into the period courtesy of Dan Hewko, who took a feed from Vince Cianciolo and Francesco Agresta, the second by Johnathan Popek on an assist from Mike Dewildt and Stringer about five minutes later), tying the score at 3 apiece. Dunnville was able to pull two goals ahead in the last half of the second as Tyler Springer found the back of Glanbrook’s net on an assist from Austin Golding and Beal, and Chris Furneaux took a feed from Speakman and Jared Murphy to score with 11:10 remaining.

All was quiet until 1:43 seconds into the third, when Glanbrook’s Brandon Key took an assist from Solow and Popek to slide one by Dunnville. Solow, who earned two goals and two assists that night for the Rangers, followed that up with a goal almost three minutes later on an assist from Anthony Sanelli and Kevin Matthews, closing Dunnville’s lead to one goal and bringing the score to 6-5.

Dunnville fought hard to keep Glanbrook in check, with Dear adding a goal to his team’s tally on an assist from McGowan and Beal 9:56 into the third. Though the Rangers tried to capture the Terriers and scored another courtesy of David Dewildt on an assist from cole and David Ferritto at 13:41, Dunnville ensured the win with Speakman’s empty netter on an assist from Mitch Barnes in the last minute of the match at 19:38 of the third.

Dunnville goaltender Jon Fenyes took a punishing 46 shots in the game, making 40 saves and letting in six goals, compared to Tyler Leach and Mark Idzikowski, both of whom minded net for Glanbrook, faced 34 shots and made 26 saves combined. Though Dunnville nearly doubled Glanbrook’s shots on net in the first, firing 20 to the Rangers’ 11, those numbers were closer in the second (14 shots for Glanbrook, 11 for Dunnville) and in the third, when the teams tied for shots.

Penalty minutes for both teams were equal at 23 minutes apiece.

The Terriers were out-shot and out-scored by the Dundas Blues for the second time in as many weeks in an away game Tuesday January 26 that ended in a 5-3 defeat.

Dundas scored three of their five goals in the first period of the match while Dunnville languished in their inability to find the back of the Blues’net. Each team scored one goal in the second period, but Dundas doubled Dunnville in the third, scoring two to Dunnville’s one to score the 5-3 win.

Dunnville was able to equal Dundas in shots on net in the first, but lost their hold on the Blues in the second, firing only six while Dundas’13 shots were unlucky for the Terriers, as John Murray scored the team’s single goal that frame assisted by Kevin Dowling and Andrew Clark, on a power play and 43 seconds into the period.

 The Terriers’ Nolan Speakman became the first to get his team on the scoreboard just under four minutes in, on an assist from Chris Furneaux and Jordan Cunningham. That momentum to the third, when Duncan Minor scored 3:47 into the frame. Austin Douglas earned his first assist of the night and Cunningham his second on the play. Dunnville’s Jason Dear followed that up with a short-handed goal assisted by Minor almost 11 minutes later, reigning in Dundas’ lead to make the score 4-3. But even those two works of magic were not enough to overcome the one-goal deficit as Dundas’Andrew Clark scored an unassisted empty-netter with just four minutes left to play.

Though Dunnville managed to reign in their penalty minutes in Tuesday’s game, spending 10 minutes in the box on five infractions, Dundas edged those numbers, spending only six minutes in the box on three infractions.

Dunnville took all of the four penalties called in the first period, including Dustin Demoe’s two-minute infraction for crosschecking 4:39 into the period, Austin Douglas’ two minutes for interference at 7:20, Curtis Naylor’s two-minute interference penalty at 11:09 and Speakman’s hooking penalty at 18:46.

Dundas took all of period two’s three penalties while Douglas took the single penalty called in the third, two minutes for interference at 14:11.

Dunnville was 0 for 3 on the power play while Dundas was 1 for 5. Dundas out-shot Dunnville 34-22.

ALLISON SMITH , CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER
 Feb 3, 2010