Team Green wins rookie camp finale
BRAMPTON, Ont. Battalion rookies and 2003 draftees were back at work bright and early Wednesday as the Ontario Hockey League club’s rookie camp wrapped up with a final 45-minute four-on-four ice session.
Team Green prevailed with a 9-3 win in the decisive Game 3 after the Green and White squads tied both games played Tuesday. Eliott McCormick scored three goals in a winning cause, and Matthew Spezza did not allow a goal in 22:30 of action in the Team Green net.
ROOKIE CAMP GAME RECAP
LINEUPS:
TEAM GREEN
Matthew Spezza, Ted Traskos, Phil Oreskovic, Shane McAdam, Michael Worrell, Tim Sullivan, Brayden Irwin, Vince Bruni, Eliott McCormick, J.F. Houle, Mathew Goodwin, Greg Payne, Patrick Sweeney, Justin Bailey, Chris D’Alvise.
TEAM WHITE
Charles Abbott, Daren Machesney, Danny Duval, Sean Street, Eric Kemp, Michael Vernace, Greg Scott, Jason Cassidy, Matt Beca, Geordie Michie, Josh Boyd, John Seymour, Robert Heickert, Graham McNabb, Matt Caranci.
Team Green goals: McCormick (3), Bailey (2), Sweeney, Irwin, Worrell, Oreskovic.
Team White goals: McNabb, Duval, Michie.
Battalion veterans reported Wednesday for fitness testing and physicals, with the club’s first training camp intrasquad game scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday.
