Axemen win 8-3 over Tommies

Acadia Rebounds From UPEI Loss In A Big Way

It appears as though the Acadia Axemen needed a wakeup call.

The Axemen played back to back home games this weekend, facing the UPEI Panthers on Friday night, then taking on the St. Thomas University Tommies on Saturday evening.  After being unceremoniously dumped 5-2 on home ice by UPEI, and suffering their third loss in five games, something had to give.

Unfortunately for St. Thomas, they were in the wrong spot at the wrong time.  The Acadia offence roared to life, eager to make amends for their recent slide.  The Axemen built a 6-0 lead before St. Thomas managed any offence.  They made it 6-2, but Acadia snuffed out any hope of a comeback, scoring twice more and rolling over the Tommies 8-3 in the end.

Mike Cazzola led the scoring with a four point night – a goal and three assists.  Brett Thompson added a goal and two assists, with Liam Heelis, Michael Clarke, Chris Owens, KC Brown, Taylor Makin, and Geoffrey Schemitsch rounding out the scoring.  Evan Mosher only faced 22 shots, but was solid when needed, squelching any hope of a ST. Thomas comeback after they scored two quick goals in the second.

Randy Cameron, Stephen Sanza, and Yuri Cheremetiev replied for St. Thomas.

Final shots on goal were 40-22 in Acadia’s favour.

The Axemen travel to Halifax to take on St. Mary’s on February 7 before returning home to close out the regular season with games against Dalhousie, Moncton, and UNB on February 8, February 14, and February 15.  Come out and support your Axemen as they begin the final stretch to the playoffs.  Game times for all games is 7:00pm.

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Game story from Justin Halbersma of openingfaceoff.net