The Orangeville Crushers are finding out there are few breaks when you play at this level and it was a lesson learned the hard way this past week, dropping consecutive games to Whitby and St Michael's this past weekend.

Playing Thursday night on the road against the Fury, Orangeville may have underestimated their opposition heading into the game.

Crushers Beni Berisha would open the scoring at 4:40 of the first with assists going to Marc Lombardi and Daniel Percuklijevic, but they were unable to hold on to the lead.

In the second, back to back goals were the reward for hard work and effort on the part of Whitby. Behn Robertson was first with a shorthanded goal at 5:37 followed up by a single from Ian Wallwork to give the Fury a 2-1 lead at 12:33 of the second.

Mike Arnold would draw Orangeville even once again late in the frame on a power-play goal assisted by Kevin VanDyke and Nicholas Vassos.

Undeterred, Whitby fired right back less than two minutes later with Robertson scoring what would prove to be the game winner at 19:18.

In the third Chris Gentile added an insurance marker midway through the frame while the Fury defence successfully neutralized any offensive punch by Orangeville to seal the 4-2 win.

Back home Friday to face St Michael's, things looked good for Orangeville heading into the second period holding a 3-0 lead.

Vassos opened the scoring just 27 seconds into the game picking off a clearing pass in the Buzzers zone and snapping it past St Michaels goalie Charles Williams.

Mike Arnold notched Orangeville's second at 8:36 assisted by Philip Teri before VanDyke and Vassos combined for the third goal at 18:07.

Costly mistakes were the Crushers downfall. Momentum in the game swung 180 degrees for the Buzzers when they managed a pair of shorthanded goals on the same penalty late in the second period. Outshooting Orangeville 20-6 through the midframe and 14-10 in the final frame of regulation time, the Buzzers evened the score up with 2:32 left on the clock to force overtime. In the extra time, neither team managed to score setting up a shootout which the Buzzers won 3-2 to take the win.

Speaking earlier this week, Crushers captain Nicholas Vassos admits it was a rough couple of games. he says going into Whitby, the team as a whole was not as focused as they should have been, perhaps anticipating the Fury not to be as good as they proved to be. With the St Mike's game he said the ending was "a real heartbreak. We came out strong, got up 3-0 but we let up after that, got complacent and made some costly mistakes."

After dropping two games in a row, he also knows the importance of getting back on track and into the win column again. " We don't want to fall into a slump after loosing the past two. We need to concentrate, play hockey and break the slide."

But that task will not be an easy one for Orangeville, who will find themselves on the road up against first, the division leading Newmarket Hurricanes on Thursday night then home Friday versus second place Toronto Jr Canadiens.

Orangeville will wrap up the weekend Sunday evening in Etobicoke, where they will face off against the Dixie Beehives