Willet's Eight Goals Hold Off Snakes' Repeated Rallies

Brian Willet scored eight times and set up four more as the Green Monkeys beat the Silver Snakes 19-14 despite being outshot 62-47.

The Green Monkeys scored the first six goals, all in the opening stretch of the first period. Paul Reily and Willet each got two of them, with Jeremy Hobor and PC Callahan adding one apiece. Willet had assists on two of Reily's and Hobor's goals as well as scoring twice himself.

The Silver Snakes came back in that same stretch. Brian Donnely, Jordan Brant, Brandon Curtis, Nolan Mock and Ryan Flick scored, and Curtis had two of the five, so the first period ended 7-6 after Callahan's goal had briefly restored a five-goal gap. Willet and Callahan opened the second with back-to-back goals, and Willet added an assist on the next to make it 10-6. Curtis and Brant then answered to cut it to 10-8.

The third period followed the same pattern. Green Monkeys goals from Willet and Callahan made it 13-8, then Flick, Curtis and Mock scored to make it 13-11. Reily and Willet pushed it back to 15-11. Mock scored again to make it 15-12, and then Hobor scored twice and Willet once to take the lead to 18-12.

Callahan scored late for 19-12. Curtis added two more late goals for the Snakes, finishing with six goals and three assists. Brant had two goals and six assists. Brandon Bird made 48 saves for the Green Monkeys, and Joe Inscho made 28 stops for Silver Snakes. Callahan finished with five goals and two assists.

The Green Monkeys improve to 4-1-0; the Silver Snakes slip to 2-3-0.