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Andrew McCarron and Blake Cox lead the way
Andrew McCarron and Blake Cox of the Jr. Miners stole the show before a home audience Monday evening and paced the Jr. Miners to a 7-2 win over the AA Munro Antigonish Jr. Bulldogs to crawl back into their Divisional Final, they now trail the Jr. Bulldogs 2-1 in the Best-of-Seven. McCarron and Cox both scored three times with McCarron adding 3 assists and Cox 1. It enabled both players to move into a tie for the playoff scoring race as McCarron now has 11 goals and 12 assists in 11 playoff games for 23 points and Cox 8 goals and 15 assists for 23 points.
Cox kicked the scoring off very early Monday in a game started late because of the Jr. Bulldogs bus breaking down shortly after leaving Antigonish. Cox’s first goal came 7 seconds into the game, it was the first of five allowed by Bulldogs goalie Cody MacEachern who had one of his very rare off-nights allowing five goals on 13 shots before being replaced by Cole Good after 28 minutes of play. McCarron scored two more in the first including the game winner at 9:25 while Sam Grant’s power-play goal finally put the Jr. Bulldogs on the board and the Jr. Miners led 3-1 after twenty minutes. In the second McCarron did not waste any time as he finished his hat-trick 29 seconds into the second period. Cox and Dylan MacDonald then put the Jr. Miners up 6-1 before Ryan MacLellan netted one for the Bulldogs who trailed 6-2 after forty minutes. Cox completed his hat-trick in the third for the only goal of the period and the 7-2 win. Antigonish did outshoot the Jr. Miners 40-33 but Hunter Shebib stood tall in the Jr. Miners net stopping 38 of the 40 shots. Game 4 will be played in Membertou Wednesday at 7:30 before going back to Antigonish for a fifth game Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Meanwhile:
The East Hants Penguins and Capstone Colts continue with the third game of the Fred Fox Divisional Final tonight at the Eastern Shore Community Centre at 8:30. Game 4 in this series will be back in Lantz Thursday night. Game 5 will be back on the Eastern Shore Saturday at 6:30 p.m.