The AA Munro Antigonish Jr. Bulldogs keep on rolling with no let up in sight following their 16th win of the season Sunday night at home over the Port Hawkesbury Canadian Tire Strait Pirates by a score of 4-0. Cody MacEachern continued his stellar goaltending blocking all 20 shots fired at him by the Pirates. MacEachern now has a 12-0-1 record this season stopping 337 of 374 shots for a .901 save percentage. Ethan Twolan and Darren Waterman put the Bulldogs up 2-0 after one period. The teams went scoreless in the second before Waterman scored his second of the game as well as Sam Mattie in the third period to make the final 4-0. This gave the Jr. Bulldogs a weekend sweep of their home and home series with the Strait Pirates having defeated them 7-1 in Port Hawkesbury Friday evening. A total of 110 minutes in penalties were called in the game with 102 of them in the third period which proved to be a rugged affair with 2 majors, 2 match penalties and 6 misconducts handed out. The Jr. Bulldogs have now opened up a 17 point lead over the Membertou Jr. Miners for first place in the Sid Rowe Division and will be back in action Friday night at home at the arena in Antigonish when they host the 7-5-3 Liverpool Privateers, a team the Jr. Bulldogs defeated in Liverpool back on Nov 11 by a count of 5-3. Elsewhere on Sunday……
East Hants 5 Pictou County 2
The Penguins and Scotians played their first game in a home and home series in Trenton Sunday night with the Pens winning 5-2. They now go to Lantz for the second game of this home and home Friday Dec 10th. The win for the now 9-6-0 Penguins moved them to within 3 points of the first place Sackville Blazers in the Fred Fox Division. Evan McHenry who scored twice and added an assist put the Penguins out in front 1-0 early in the first period. Hayden Burgess tied it for the Scotians before Sean Freeman scored the first of his two goals on the evening to give the Pens a 2-1 lead after twenty minutes. A mere 6 seconds into the second period, Matt Carson tied it for the Scotians at 2-2 but with 6:47 left in the middle period, McHenry on the power-play scored the game winner for East Hants and gave them a 3-2 lead after two periods. Freeman added his second of the game in the third and Bruen Fisher put one into an empty net with 5 seconds left in the third. Gavin McCready picked up 3 assists for the Pens who outshot Pictou 48-37.
Eskasoni Jr. Eagles 8 Brookfield Elks 5
The Elks were coming into the Dan K. Stevens Memorial Arena in Eskasoni Sunday afternoon on a high after their 7-3 upset win over the Membertou Jr. Miners Saturday night. The Elks were attempting to record their third win of the season and they played hard against the Jr. Eagles trailing 6-5 with 5:45 to play in the third but a pair of goals from Thomas Simon and Nicholas Pastuck with his second of the game in the final 2:06 gave Eskasoni an 8-5 win despite being outshot by the Elks 52-43. Brookfield’s Noah Latimer with his first of two in the game opened the game’s scoring 56 seconds after the opening face-off before Pastuck scored his first to leave the teams tied at 1-1 after twenty minutes. Adam Willison with his first of two and MacKenzie Erickson scored a minute apart before the second period was two minutes old to give the Jr. Eagles a 3-1 lead but the Elks Latimer and Calem McAndrew tied the game at 3-3 before Willison put the Jr. Eagles in front 4-3 going into the third period. MacKenzie Erickson with his second of the game made it 5-3 Jr. Eagles before Connor Miller with his first of two for the Elks brought Brookfield back to within a goal. It stayed 5-4 for only 53 seconds when MacQueen Kendall scored the game winner for Eskasoni. Miller’s 2nd goal for the Elks brought them back to within 6-5 but they could not come up with the equalizer prior to the late goals by Simon and Pastuck. Jaden Martin chipped in with three assists for the Jr. Eagles. This concluded the two game regular season series between the two clubs as Eskasoni defeated the Elks in early November in Brookfield 5-4.
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