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Major Peewee Rapids Eliminate Silver Seven By Bill Woodside
The Seaway Valley Major Peewee AA Rapids have won their quarterfinal series, defeating the Ottawa Valley Silver Seven, six points to two in their best of five points series. The first game was played on February 14th in Osgoode with the Rapids prevailing 6-4. Seaway opened the scoring on a goal by Jordan Canham, assisted by Joseph Samson and Ethan Mulhearn. OVSS replied with two of their own before Canham scored again with 10 seconds remaining in the first period assisted by Mulhearn and Samson. OVSS scored the lone goal of the second period to take a 3-2 lead going into the third. Seaway tied the game early in the third period on a goal by Mulhearn, assisted by Canham and Landon Fraser. Ottawa Valley took the lead again before Canham scored his third of the game, assisted by Samson and Mathieu Giroux to tie the score at 4. The Rapids took the lead for good on a goal by Samson with 5:16 remaining with assists going to Canham and Ryan Levis. The drama did not end there, as Seaway was assessed a four-minute double minor with 4:02 remaining. However, the Rapids held on to kill the penalty and Samson sealed the deal with an empty-netter assisted by goalie Aidan Lamothe. Game 2 was played on February 17th in Maxville. Seaway came out hard and outplayed, outskated, and outhit their opponents and rolled to a 7-0 victory. The Rapids scored two first period goals, the first by Samson with assists to Canham and Mulhearn and the second by Mulhearn unassisted. The game was blown wide open in the second as the Rapids filled the net scoring four times. Canham scored with assists going to Samson and Brant Woodside. Woodside then scored on the power play, assisted by Canham. Mulhearn scored his second of the game
The Seaway Valley Major Peewee AA Rapids are looking to the second round as they won their their quarterfinal series. Photo supplied by Bill Woodside First Row -- Dawson Irving, Evan Huntley, Tyler Eldridge, Landon Fraser, Eric Ouellette, Aidan Lamothe Second Row -- Ryan Levis, Ben Paul, Taran Fiacco, Ethan Mulhearn, Mathieu Giroux Third Row -- Sam Fitzgerald, Wade Moak, Joseph Samson, Brant Woodside, Jordan Canham, Ben Dirven.
assisted by Samson and Canham. Taran Fiacco scored Seaway’s fourth goal of the period, assisted by Tyler Eldridge. Woodside scored the lone goal in the third with the assist going to Samson. Dawson Irving earned the shutout victory. The Rapids travelled in a snowstorm to Carp on February 19th for game three and a chance to clinch the series. The boys looked road-weary as Ottawa Valley jumped out to a 3-0 lead early in the second period before Samson scored assisted by Canham to close the gap to 3-1. Early in the third, Seaway inched closer to make it 3-2 on a goal by Canham, assisted by Samson. However OVSS tallied again less than a minute later to
regain their two goal cushion and Seaway never recovered eventually falling 7-2. Seaway returned home to Maxville on February 21st for game four. There was tension in the air, as a loss would mean travelling to Kinburn for a deciding fifth game. The Rapids came out hard in the first period and grabbed a 1-0 lead on a goal by Fiacco, assisted by Eldridge and Ben Paul. The Silver Seven did not lie down however, scoring early in the second period to knot things up at one apiece. Seaway regained the lead on a goal by Samson with assists going to Canham and Mulhearn. Late in the period Samson dealt a serious blow to any comeback hopes of OVSS by
scoring a shorthanded goal assisted by Mulhearn and the Rapids entered the third period with a two-goal lead. Seaway never stopped skating and Samson clinched the series by scoring again to complete the hat trick with assists once again going to Canham and Mulhearn. Dawson Irving was between the pipes to earn his second win of the series. Congratulations to the current top three playoff scorers – all Rapids – Samson – 14, Canham – 13, and Mulhearn – 9. By defeating the fourth place Silver Seven, the fifth place Rapids will now face either the first place Ottawa Sting or the second place Nepean Raiders in the second round. Good luck Rapids!
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