Week 14 Recap: Four Hat Tricks, a Velodrome Rally That Falls One Goal Short, and World Orphans Hit Nine

Week 14 belonged to the goal scorers. Four players put up hat tricks, the World Orphans scored seven times in one period, and Velodrome erased a four-goal deficit down to one before time ran out. The five games combined for 39 goals. Here's the full Week 14 breakdown.

World Orphans 9, Parker Winnelson 5

Brock Lofgren scored a hat trick for Parker Winnelson, and it still wasn't close to enough. The World Orphans scored seven goals in the second period alone on the way to a 9-5 win.

Lofgren, set up by Ryan Kiehl, gave Parker Winnelson a 1-0 lead in the first period. Then the second period began and the World Orphans took over. Aaron Thoman, assisted by Jean-Stephane Desmarais and Kory Reimann, tied it, and Ryan Case, set up by Wayne Kohut, put the World Orphans in front. Thoman scored again, Andre Wright added another, and Austin Webb made it 5-1. Chad Ferguson, assisted by Case, scored what turned out to be the game-winner to make it 6-1, and Reimann capped the burst to make it 7-1.

Parker Winnelson answered with three goals in 91 seconds late in the period. Nicholas Lang, assisted by Lofgren, scored first, and Lofgren followed with back-to-back goals, one assisted by Josh Cronk and Casey Kosley and one unassisted, to complete his hat trick and make it 7-4. Cronk, assisted by Lang and Nate Clyncke, scored again in the third to make it 7-5, but Webb, set up by Chuck Webb, and Ferguson, set up by Daniel Heck, answered to close it out at 9-5.

Lofgren finished with three goals and an assist. Thoman had two goals and an assist, Wright had a goal and two assists, and Ferguson and Webb each scored twice. Ian Ward earned the win in net, and Casey Lang took the loss. The World Orphans have now scored 17 goals over their last two games.

OS Offices 3, Triple J 1

OS Offices needed only the first period. Three goals in just over seven minutes were all it took to beat Triple J 3-1.

Garrett Ashcroft, assisted by James Rynearson and Tyler Kettner, got it started. Josh Theken, set up by Jesse Theken and Guy Girardeau, scored the game-winner to make it 2-0, and Jesse Theken, assisted by Rynearson and Kettner, made it 3-0 a little over a minute later.

Triple J's only goal came in the third period, when Keegan Mantaro, set up by Kassia Brooks and Bob Colby, cut it to 3-1. Rynearson and Kettner each finished with two assists, and Jesse Theken had a goal and an assist. Justin Bell earned the win in net, and Sebastian Rivera took the loss. OS Offices followed last week's 5-2 win over ACE with another solid result.

OUTCAN Outlaws 4, ACE 3

Samson Leifer scored three times, including the game-winner, as the OUTCAN Outlaws held off ACE 4-3 for their sixth straight win.

Leifer, assisted by Cesar Shinall and Colin Brewster, opened the scoring in the first period. ACE answered with two goals. Jayne Baraky, assisted by Owen Kalbfleisch and John Storms, tied it, and Storms, set up by Simon Kurtz and Nathan Watts, put ACE in front 2-1. Richie Villanueva, assisted by Christopher Mihlon, tied it with 1:10 left in the period.

Leifer, set up by Taylor Rogalsky, put OUTCAN back in front in the second period, and Watts, assisted by Kalbfleisch and John Liersemann, tied it again in the third. Leifer ended it with an unassisted goal to complete his hat trick and make it 4-3.

Leifer has now scored 10 goals over the last four weeks. Storms and Watts each had a goal and an assist for ACE. Jeremy Chubbs earned the win in net, and Ian Gustafson took the loss.

J&J Automotive 4, Platinum 1

Platinum scored eight goals a week ago. This week, it scored one. J&J Automotive bounced back from last week's loss to OUTCAN with a 4-1 win, getting two goals from Travis Hinton and four unanswered goals after falling behind.

Jason O'Leary, assisted by Karen Zietlow and Matt Quinn, gave Platinum the early lead, but Hinton, set up by Ryan Walker, tied it late in the first period. Sam Downs, assisted by Jonathan Valtin and Nicole Downs, scored the game-winner to put J&J Automotive in front in the second, and Valtin, set up by Noah Seibert, made it 3-1 with 15 seconds left in the period.

Hinton, assisted by Thane Gilmore, scored again in the third to set the final at 4-1. Valtin had a goal and an assist. Francis Forte earned the win in net, and Brandon Ward took the loss for Platinum.

Nelson & Company 5, Velodrome 4

Velodrome came within one goal of a stunning comeback. Down 4-0 after two periods, it scored four times in the third and got within a goal twice, but TJ Liebl's hat trick goal held up as Nelson & Company won 5-4.

Liebl, assisted by Erika Tunning, opened the scoring in the first period, and Eric Elliott, set up by Josh Twitchell and Chris Tunning, made it 2-0. Elliott added an unassisted goal in the second, and Liebl scored just before the period ended to make it 4-0.

Then came Velodrome's third period. Lee Smith, assisted by William Gagnon-Robitaille and Ty Smith, got it started. Ty Smith scored twice more, once assisted by Jennifer Valente and Hayden Smith and once by Hayden Smith and Ronnie Pinnell, to pull within 4-3. Liebl answered with an unassisted goal with 3:17 left, his third of the game, to restore the two-goal lead. Ty Smith, assisted by Ronnie Cantrelle and Ronnie Pinnell, completed his own hat trick with 2:35 to go, but Velodrome could not find the tying goal.

Ty Smith finished with three goals and an assist. Liebl led Nelson & Company with three goals, and Elliott added two. Liebl has now scored seven goals over the last three weeks. Scott Purdy earned the win in net, and John Rhode took the loss. Nelson & Company bounced back from last week's 8-2 loss to Platinum.

The Big Picture

Week 14 brought 39 goals across five games and four hat tricks from Lofgren, Leifer, Ty Smith and Liebl. OUTCAN has now won six in a row, the World Orphans scored seven in a period, and Velodrome came within a goal of erasing a four-goal deficit. Fourteen weeks in, you still can't leave early.

Week 15 is on deck. See you at the rink.