Playoff series goes the distance

Continued from page 8 was called for tripping at 3:12 of the third period, followed by a holding call against Wingham’s Kyle Stanbury and a boarding call against Josh Pham of the Ironmen, at 3:36 and 8:54 of the third period, respectively.

Mount Forest would then trounce the Ironmen in game six of the series on April 1 in Wingham, by a score of 6-1.

Brody Leblanc of the Patriots scored his eighth goal of the playoffs at 19:15 of the first period to open the scoring, assisted by Elijah Brahaney and Dylan Szymanowski. There were no goals in the second period.

Wingham’s Dawson Fahrer would even the score at 4:27 of the third period with an unassisted goal, the team’s only goal of the game.

After that, the Patriots would score five straight goals: Austin

Griffin at 5:52, assisted by Jared Rowe and Ben Tenhag; Brody Leblanc at 7:21, a shorthanded goal, assisted by Elijah Brahaney; Dylan Szymanowski at 12:59, assisted by Kyle Detweiler and Brody Leblanc; Bryan Richardson at 18:12, a power play goal, assisted by Kyle Detweiler and Charlie Mckenzie, and Matt McLellan one second later at 18:13, assisted by Aaron McGuirk and Austin Griffin on the power play.

Vance Meyer earned the win in the Patriots’ net, stopping 26 of the 27 shots he faced, while Garrett Golley was branded with the loss, stopping 32 of 38 shots.

Matt Tolton of the Ironmen was called for cross-checking at 4:33 of the first period, followed by Riley Torrie of the Patriots being called for interference and slashing at 17:02 and 19:51 of the first period, respectively.

Mount Forest’s Charlie Mckenzie was called for cross-checking at 3:41 of the second period, followed by a head contact penalty called against Wingham’s Jonah Burley at 6:29. Mount Forest’s Cameron Lytle was also called for crosschecking at 11:03 of the period, followed by an interference call against Matt Tolton of the Ironmen at 13:02, a charging penalty called against Mount Forest’s Elijah Brahaney at 17:31 and an interference penalty against Matt Tolton of Wingham at 19:36 of the period. their road playoff game against the North Middlesex Junior Stars by a score of 5-3. The U15 C Heat lost their playoff game with the Woodstock Wildcats in Komoka by a score of 3-0, while the U11 B team beat the London Devilettes in Hensall by a score of 1-0.

Charlie Mckenzie of the Patriots was called for cross-checking at 6:55 of the third period, followed by a slashing infraction called against Wingham’s Matt Tolton at 14:37. Josh Pham of the Ironmen was assessed two head contact penalties at 15:27 of the period, followed by Wingham goaltender Garrett Golley being called for slashing at 17:01 of the final frame.

The previous day, March 31, the U9 HL White team won its first two tournament games, beating the St. Marys Rock by a score of 2-1 and the Bluewater Hawks by a score of 2-0, while the U9 HL Black team opened its tournament with a 5-1 win over the Lucan Irish.

On March 30, the U13 B Heat won its exhibition game in Ripley with the Lucknow/Wingham 86ers by a score of 3-1.

On April 4, the U9 B and U18 BB Heat teams played exhibition games with the North Middlesex Junior Stars and the South Huron Sabres, respectively, in Seaforth, but scores were unavailable at press time.

After the OWHA Provincial Championships, try-outs begin for a number of Heat teams in Goderich to be held through April.