RAYNHAM – New England Future Stars’ All-Star Saturday is noted for its excitement and the Peewee Division proved that this weekend at the Raynham IcePlex, the North Shore Stingrays scoring a come-from-behind victory in the Skills Challenge and then a tight battle that turned into a runaway as Black defeated White, 8-3, in the All-Star Game.

After two events in the Skills Challenge, the Central Mass Cobras seemed to be on their way to victory with wins in Team Relay and Agility Race, but the Stingrays were right on their heels, taking second in both events.

Despite leading the league in offense coming into the All-Star festivities, things fell apart of the Cobras in the Target Shooting event, just missing out on advancing into a final shoot-off, while the Stingrays took the lead, outdueling the Southeastern Grizzlies, Marlboro Thunder, South Shore Sabercats and Natick Chill to capture first in the event and the overall lead.

The Sabercats, finishing third in all three events, finished the Skills Challenge in third overall.

While the Stingrays’ foursome of David Bazile, Sean Malone, Diego Alvarez-Segee and Quinn McCarthy stole the show in the Skills Challenge, goaltenders Jacob Sanville of the Cobras, starting for White, and Stevie Pisani of the Sabercats and Black All-Stars stole the show to start the Peewee All-Star Game, routinely stopping the division’s best offensive players.

More than a quarter of the game had been played before the Sabercats’ Jake Fleet scored the game’s first goal, giving Black a 1-0 lead at 12:51. The division-leading Sabercats continued to lead the charge as Dylan Ingemi upped the lead to 2-0 at 18:32.

White got on the board late as Ryan Torrisi of the South Middlesex Coyotes put a rebound past Pisani, but a penalty shot goal by the Chill’s Jake Despres right before the half got the lead back to two at 3-1.

The game remained tight as each side traded a pair of goals in the early goings of the second half to set the score at 5-3 before Black fully distanced themselves late in the frame. The door began to close at 17:45 when Raynham Raiders’ forward Andrew Cummings got in on the scoring with Black’s sixth of the game and then Despres slammed it shut, adding another pair to his goal total, running it to four, securing the 8-3 win and the First Star of the Game Award.

Pisani locked up the game’s Second Star with a yeoman’s effort between the pipes, playing the entire 50-minutes, while going a perfect 4-for-4 on penalty shot attempts. Bazile added to his Skills Challenge medal when he was named the game’s No. 3 Star.