Gan Islanders Downed Westport Lumberjacks 8-6 Friday in EOSHL

Gananoque – The Gananoque Islanders won an 8-6 decision over the Westport Rideaus on Friday night in Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League action at the Lou Jeffries in Gananoque.

Islander’s Cole Busschaert (Matt Donovan, #72 Cody Smith) and Eric Selleck (Brock Higgs) each scored one goal in the first period. Westport would respond with a goal from Jordan Ribbink (9 Mitchell Larabie, Calvin Wheatley) on the powerplay to end the first period. Gananoque leads 2-1 at the end of the period.

In the second period, Gan’s Aidan Harris (Duane Wainman, #10 Chris Latimer) and Brock Higgs (Ben Blasko, Ryan Pawlikowski) made it 4-1 Islanders.

The Lumberjacks’ Calvin Wheatley (Devon Burns, #9 Mitchell Larabie) and Evgeni Petrenko (Vilis Abele, Scott Forbes) would give Westport two more in the second.

The Islanders would score one more in the second from Ben Blasko (Brock Higgs, Ryan Pawlikowski) to give Gan a 5-3 lead at the end of the second.

In the third period, Anthony Caserta (Elliott Belzile) would score for Westport at just 18:59 in the period. Ben Blasko (Ryan Pawlikowski, Brock Higgs) would score his second and third goals of the night in the third period, followed by a Brock Higgs goal (Ben Blasko, Ryan Pawlikowski) his second of the night.

Westport would pick up two more on goals by Devon Burns (Craig Cross, Calvin Wheatley) and Jordan Ribbink (Maverick Labrie, Devon Burns) in the third.

The Islanders outshot the Lumberjacks 58 to 31 during the game.

The Westport Lumberjacks host the Tweed Oil Kings this Saturday afternoon at the Westport Community Arena starting at 3:00 pm.

The Gananoque Islanders will host the Frontenac Phantoms on Saturday night starting at 7:30 pm at the Lou Jeffries.