Hershey Bears Christmas Tournament

January 3, 2008 at 9:57 am | Posted in Hockey Tournaments, Hockey Travel, Hockey Wins, Youth Hockey | Leave a comment

The Reading Jr Royals PeeWee Black recently participated in the Hershey Bears Christmas Tournament. The tournament kicked off for the Royals on Thursday December 27th, two days after Christmas.

I am hoping to get the blog posts up for all of the games the boys played in the tournament, but time seems to be very short this year.

Here is a brief synopsis of how the Hershey Bears Tournament went for the Reading Jr Royals PeeWee A Black youth hockey team.

Won the first game against the Hershey Bears and the next game as well which was later on in the afternoon on Thursday.

The following morning, at 9am they had their next game, which was a pretty close tie. This was also the game where Zero-Zero received a major penalty and was kicked out of the the tournament. In spite of not playing, he did watch the rest of his teams games from the stands.

The afternoon game resulted in another win for the Royals, and they ended the day being in second place, just behind the New Jersey Penguins.

Saturday morning saw the Royals down four defensive players, including zero-zero. The first game of the morning which was at 915 I believe was against the team they tied the day before. This game started out badly for the Royals who were behind for most of the game, but ended up winning in over time with a score of 3:2. This as it turns out was what I feel was the best game of the tournament because of the come from behind win.

After this spectacular win, the boys then headed over to the Giant Center for the final hockey game of the tournament against the New Jersey Penguins who went into the final round undeafeted.

This game started out with the Royals getting three goals within the first two minutes of the first period. Sadly, the NJ Penguins were not able to come back from the tremendous Royals start and ended up losing the final game 5:1.

All in all it was a pretty good youth hockey tournament. The boys had some good competition and had at least one game where the potential to lose was great. They also had the chance to play in two large hockey arenas – the Giant Center and the Old Hershey Ice Arena.

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