SPORTS

In this case it wasn’t, and the official called a “leaving the player bench” penalty giving Woodstock a two-man advantage at the start of the third period.

The Titans survived the beginning of the period by killing off the two minor penalties. Woodstock scorers weren’t done for the period and scored three unanswered to send the game to sudden death overtime Titan Alex Foster had a great chance to end the game 4 minutes in but was two inches wide ringing the puck off the Woodstock goal post Looking like there was a second overtime on the horizon, the Navy Vets score a winner with 2 minutes remaining in the period to win the game 6-5 and a 3-0 lead in the best of seven series.

Titans Win and Avoid a Playoff Sweep

Tuesday in Woodstock, the Paris Titans won their game to avoid being swept out of the playoffs. Paris started off with an early penalty 3 and half minutes into the first period and the Navy Vets took advantage with a power play goal, to take a 1-0 lead. Ethan Bush ties the score for the Titans with assist credited to Josh Schell The period ends in a 1-1 tie.

The second period was dominated by Paris scoring 4 unanswered goals and a 5-1 lead Goal scorers were Spencer Edwards (assists to Alex Foster and Seth Kirou), Aidan Switzer (James Patterson), Owen Lalonde (Christian Campanelli send Brett Cowen) and Tyler Crisostomo (Duncan Dodd). Over all the Titans played strong period in both the offensive and defensive zone and allowing starting goalie Josh Roman great vision of the shots being taken by Woodstock One problem area that the Titans have had is spending too much time playing shorthanded due to penalties Tuesday was the exception, having allowed only one power play in the first and a clean slate in the second period

Woodstock popped in a goal to make it Paris 5-2. So far, the referees, weren’t much a factor in the game, then curiously the officials called two players for the same infraction, cross checking during a battle in front of the Paris net, giving Woodstock a 5 on 3 skater advantage

Regardless, the Titans took the pressure and with the penalty killers doing their job and goalie Josh Roman making the saves, they survived and maintained their 52 lead. With 5:09 left in the period, Paris give Woodstock another penalty and the Navy Vets pull their goalie for a 6 skater on 4 advantages. A minute later Woodstock score a power play goal and a Titan 2 goal lead. Woodstock calls a time out; pull their goalie and strategize how they might score 2 goals to take the game into overtime! Fortunately, the Titans didn’t allow this story to happen, as they defended their end and cleared the puck past their blue line, eventually D Man Owen Switzer making a pass to Seth Kirou to score an empty netter and sealing a 6-3 win

Josh Roman was chosen as the first and only star of the game, commented on how great the team defended in front him allowing him to see the puck coming at him clearly. Head coach Mike Christian’s comments to the team was to stay consistent and was happy to have a team that was finally healthy.

The series continued Friday evening with a 7:45 puck drop in Woodstock Sadly, Paris Titans lost game 5, the final scores was 5-1 and they have been eliminated from playoffs with 4 games to 1.