Griffin Fox scored three goals, and the Long Beach Lightning 12U Silver – Deacon beat the NY Islanders Elite 12U Silver – Fortunato 6-1 in LIAHL 12U Silver play Saturday at Northwell Health Ice Center. Long Beach scored two goals in each period and held the hosts scoreless over the final two periods.
Long Beach led 2-1 after the first period, then added two goals in the second and two more in the third. Griffin Fox’s hat trick accounted for half of the Lightning’s offense. Thomas Surgot, Chase Mischo and Rafe Kaminsky each added a goal for Long Beach, which outshot the Islanders 25-16.
Tucker Fox earned the win in net for Long Beach, stopping 15 of 16 shots. Arya Shah scored the lone goal for the Islanders and also drew four penalty minutes. Ava Siciliano made 19 saves on 25 shots in the loss.
The teams combined for 16 penalty minutes. Long Beach accounted for 10 of them, including four from Connor Murray, and the Islanders were charged with six.
Long Beach improves to 2-1-0-0, while the Islanders fall to 0-2-0-0 as they look for their first win of the season.
