by Romano Di Franco
The Nepean Raiders travelled to the Smiths Falls Memorial Centre for their only road exhibition match against the Smiths Falls Bears. The Raiders beat the Grads twice in the span of one week whereas the Bears edged out the Brockville Braves by a final score of 5-4 in overtime.
Evan Grant who was great on Wednesday got the call in goal for the Raiders and Logan Heidieman who shutout the Renfrew Wolves a week ago got the start for the Bears.
The only goal in the first period came when Jacob Smith scored his second goal of the pre-season assisted from Luca Iammuzzi and Marc Antoine Riopel. The Raiders appeared to have tied the game at one following a tip-in from Cole Krottner. However the goal was called back following a high stick.
Although there were no goals in the second period, Nepean had a amazing opportunity from a 2 on 0 rush from Krottner and Ryan Kinghan, but Logan Heidieman slid has pads to make the save to keep the score at 1-0.
Fifteen seconds into the third period, Phoenix Anderson provided some insurance to make it a 2-0 game.
Evan Grant made possibly his best save of the game when going to the bench for an extra attacker, he slid back to make a diving stick save.
That would be the official final score.
The three star selections were having stopped all 26 shots in the game, Logan Heidieman was rewarded the first star of the game for the Smiths Falls Bears, for the game winning goal Jacob Smith was given the second star for the Bears and making 31 of the 33 saves of the game it is Evan Grant who was rewarded the third star of the game for the Raiders.
Nepean’s final pre-season game takes place on Sunday September 13th when they host the Bears at the Sportsplex. The Raiders first regular season takes place on Wednesday September 16th when they welcome the Renfrew Wolves.
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