The Reeths-Puffer hockey team is blessed with a lot of scorers – and now another sniper has joined the club.
Senior Dewey Modaff, a fourth-year varsity player, scored his first two goals of the season on Thursday and Friday, helping the Rockets get a pair of wins at the Michigan Public High School Chelsea Showcase at the Arctic Coliseum in Chelsea.
Dewey scored the first goal of the night in R-P’s 3-1 victory over Tawas on Thursday.
R-P's Dewey Modaff
His tally gave the Rockets a 1-0 lead after the first period. Croix Klint scored in the second period and R-P led 2-0 heading into the third.
Dexter scored with 2:25 left in the game to make things close, but R-P’s Connor Stawski answered with a goal with 17 seconds left to wrap up the victory.
R-P had a big 51-9 advantage in shots on goal. Huck VanDyke got the win in goal.
"We played well, they just had a hot goalie,” said R-P Coach Dustin Langlois. ”He kept them in the game for sure. We had a lot of shots, we were just taking them from far out and not getting any guys in front of their net. We did a really good job of keeping them out of our end. We played great defensively."
Connor Stawski
The Rockets rolled to an 8-0 victory over Dexter on Friday. The game was called after two periods due to the mercy rule.
R-P collected four goals in the first period – including the first one just seven seconds into the game - from Jaxon Stone, Ayden Hartzell, Stawski and Modaff. Four more came in the second period, including two by Tyler Tindall and single tallies from Eli Cuti and Stone.
R-P had a 32-8 advantage in shots. Mark Stewart got the shutout in goal.
Tyler Tindall
"We have been pounding teams with shots!” Langlois said. “This was the better team that we faced this weekend - the difference was our guys crashing the net and being relentless in front of it. We also have been doing a great job defensively by not letting teams have any time in our zone with the puck. If it does go in, they might get a shot, but then it’s going right back the other way.
“We focused on puck patience and possession in practice this past week and it has clearly made a difference.”
Reeths-Puffer, now 12-7 on the season, has won four games in a row and six out of its last seven.
