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Last second goal wins game for Miners
Antigonish Jr. Bulldogs now 13-1 - Nailbiter down to bitter end between Elks and Jr. Miners
Membertou 5 Brookfield 4
Trey Sturge’s goal with 18 seconds remaining in regulation gave the Membertou Jr. Miners a 5-4 win over the Brookfield Elks at the Don Henderson Memorial Arena in Brookfield Saturday afternoon. The goal came after Sam Rogers tied the game for the Elks at 4-4 with his marker with only 32 seconds left in regulation. The game was tied 2-2 after twenty minutes and the Jr. Miners led 3-2 after two periods. In the opening frame, Daniel MacKenzie scored the first of his two on the afternoon while also adding an assist and Aiden Gloade replied for the Elks while Alexander Chenhall and Landon Clarke tallied for Membertou. With slightly more than five minutes to play in the second, last season’s leading scorer in the League when he played with Eskasoni, Sonny Kabatay made it 3-2 Jr. Miners going into the third. Kabatay who came over to the Jr. Miners in a huge trade nearly a month ago is nowhere close to his scoring antics last season when he tallied 42 goals and connected for 50 assists for 92 points. In eight games this season between Eskasoni and Membertou, he has registered only two goals and both of them have come with the Jr. Miners since the trade. His second of the season was the one he scored in the second period. Daniel MacKenzie with his second goal of the afternoon tied the game at 3-3 for the Elks on the power-play before Brady Doucette came right back for the Jr. Miners to give them the lead, this goal also being a power-play marker. That was all the scoring until the heart-stopping final minute. Lucas Fraser turned away 33 of 37 shots he faced in nets for the Jr. Miners while Pablo De Larringa was solid in the Elks net stopping 43 of 48 shots. The win for Membertou evened their season series with the Elks as Brookfield had defeated Membertou a couple of weeks ago 4-2 on Jr. Miners ice. With each team playing in a separate division, it marked the second and one time the two teams will play in 23-24 unless they meet in the Nova Scotia Championship League Final. The Elks are now 5-5-1 and tied with the South Shore Lumberjacks for the fourth and final playoff berth in the Fox Division while the Jr. Miners are 8-7-0 and in fourth place in the Rowe Division, two points back of the Pictou County Scotians.
Antigonish 6 South Shore Lumberjacks 2
The Lumberjacks saw their record fall back to 5-5-1 as they suffered a 6-2 setback on home ice in Bridgewater, this after losing to the Bulldogs in Antigonish 8-3 two weeks ago. The win gave the Bulldogs the season series at 2-0-0 while outscoring the Lumberjacks 14-5 in the 120 minutes of hockey. Saturday’s game was tied 1-1 after the first period as Logan McGrath and Brennan Coleman exchanged goals 28 seconds apart in the final four minutes. The Bulldogs went up 3-1 after two after goals from Kiev Brownlee and Owen Forsythe with his first of two. The Bulldogs added to their lead in the third going up 5-1 on goals by Bradley Armstrong and Zachary Lorette before Owen Cleary connected for the South Shore. Forsythe of the Bulldogs with his second of the game finished the game’s scoring.