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Jr. Miners take Scotians in Six Games
With the series now complete, no doubt the Pictou County Scotians will be doing a lot of hard thinking this spring and summer as to how they could play the Membertou Jr. Miners in a play-off divisional semi-final and win two games by scores of 4-3 in the last minute of play and 5-4 in sudden-death overtime, yet lose so horribly in three of the other four series games by scores of 8-2, 8-2 and 9-1. The 9-1 loss came in Membertou Monday evening. The Scotians were outscored in the six games by a count of 37-17, allowing an average of 6.1 goals a game.
In Monday night’s game, the Jr. Miners had goals from Ashton Paul, Andrew McCarron, Nathaniel Fuller and Logan Snow to lead 4-0 after twenty minutes. The two teams exchanged goals in the second period with Matt Carson netting the lone of the night for the Scotians while Riley Seymour scored the first of his two on the evening. In the third, Seymour had a power-play marker, Blake Cox a short-handed marker with Josh MacKay and Logan O’Neill tallying singles. The Jr. Miners held a 52-36 advantage in shots and will now await the winner of the Antigonish-Port Hawkesbury series which the Bulldogs presently lead 3-2 to see who they will play in the Sid Rowe Divisional Final. Game six between the Jr. Bulldogs and Strait Pirates will be played in Port Hawkesbury Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. Game 6 in the Liverpool-Capstone Colts series with the Colts up 3-2 moves to the Eastern Shore Community Centre for an 8:30 start Tuesday night.