JETS BANTAMS CLAIM 2nd at TITANS CUP

The Golden Jets U14 AA team traveled to Ottawa to play in the Titans Cup on the weekend of January 26-27.  It was a difficult start for the team which got stuck for several hours behind the major 60-car pile-up on the 401 and did not arrive until 4am Saturday morning.  After only a couple of hours of sleep, the Jets jumped into the pool and opened with a 9-6 win over the host Ottawa Titans.  Illan Rodriguez-Martin had 5 goals for the Jets, Kosta Grbic had a hat trick and Viktor Brancus notched the other goal.  A couple of hours later, the Jets were back at it against the K-W II team and came away with a 7-3 win courtesy of 2 goals each from Brancus and Denis Lipman, and singles by Grbic, Luka Pejanovic and Bojan Popovic.    Then, after a meal break, the Jets had to play their 3rd game of the day on a couple of hours sleep against Gatineau.  The Jets slept through the first half but only trailed 0-2.  Then, the team woke up with 2 goals from Rodriguez-Martin to tie the game heading into the 4th quarter.  Gatineau scored once early in the 4th and that was it as the exhausted Jets fell 2-3.  The next morning, refreshed after a good night's sleep, the Jets roared back to trounce Hamilton 14-1 with scoring from Grbic (5), Pejanovic (3), Igor Jovanovic (3), Brancus (2) and Lipman (1).  The final game was against K-W 1 and hat tricks from Grbic, Pejanovic and Lipman plus singles from Brancus and Rodriguez-Martin propelled the Jets to a 11-3 victory and a 2nd place finish.