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Colts and Bulldogs in one DoJo Semi
It was less than a week ago when the Capstone Colts defeated the Antigonish Jr. Bulldogs to win the 2024-25 Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League Championship in six games.
Now Saturday just across the border in New Brunswick, the two teams will clash once again in a one-game sudden death semi-final to see who advances to play for the Maritime Junior Hockey Championship on Sunday afternoon.
The Colts and Bulldogs concluded their round-robin series of games Friday with the Bulldogs going 1-1-0 to finish the tournament in third place at 2-2-0 while the Colts dealt the Cap Pele Knights a 6-1 setback to finish in second place with aa 3-1-0 record. In their round-robin series game Thursday, the Colts doubled up the Bulldogs 6-3.
The Colts concluded their round-robin Friday afternoon with an explosive third period against Cap Pele. The Colts Camden McKenzie scored in the first for the Colts and Finn Merritt’s power-play goal put the Colts up 2-0 after forty minutes. In the third Liam Andrews short-handed goal made it 3-0 Colts before Cap Pele scored. The Colts then concluded the game with a three-goal blitz as Merritt scored his fifth of the tournament with Benjamin Veinot and Jacob Troini-Willis also scoring. The Colts scored twenty goals in their four round-robin games and Andrews and Merritt combined for 9 of the 20 markers. The Colts outshot Cap Pele 40-28. The winner of the Capstone-Antigonsh semi-final will play the winner of the Kent Koyotes-Cap Pele semi-final for the Maritime Junior and Don Johnson Memorial Cup Championship Sunday afternoon in Cocagne, New Brunswick.
In the Bulldogs game Friday night, a win would have tied them with the Colts and Koyotes with 3-1-0 records but they suffered a 2-1 loss, giving the host Kent Koyotes a perfect 4-0-0 record for the week. The teams scored one goal in each of the three periods with the Koyotes scoring in the first and third and Will Normandeau scoring his third of the week in the second period. The Bulldogs were outshot 32-28 by the Koyotes.