CJHL Hockey
Lumber Kings dominate Grads at home, take 2-1 series lead
By Fred Sherwin
Orléans Online

When the Cumberland Grads upended the Pembroke Lumber Kings on home ice last Thursday night to even their quarterfinal series at a game apiece, you knew there was a risk that might have woken up a sleeping giant.

Well on Sunday the giant did wake up and he took care of business in impressive fashion, limiting the Grads to just three shots in each of the first two periods while peppering Cumberland netminder Adam Laderoute with 42 shots enroute to a 7-1 win.

The game also saw it's share of rough stuff, especially in the third period when the score was out of reach and the result was a foregone conclusion. There were 106 penalty minutes in all, 86 of which were assessed in the third, including six inciting an opponent calls.

The Lumber Kings outshot the Grads 10-3 in the first period to take a 3-0 lead on goals by Tyler Tosunian, Keith Clarke and Ahmed Mahfouz.

The game was even more lopsided in the second as the Lumber Kings continued to bombard the Grad's net with shots. Despite being outshot 19-3, however, Cumberland managed to only allow a goal while getting one of their own on the power play. Matt Miller scored on a pass from Michel Nooyen to briefly narrow the deficit to 3-1, before Kyle Just scored to put Pembroke back in front by three.

The Lumber Kings would added three more in the third, including a pair by Clarke to complete his hat trick and one from former Grad Mitch Gallant to close out the scoring.

The Grads will be hoping to take advantage of home ice when the series returns to Navan on Tuesday night, Game time is 7 p.m.

(Posted 6:30 a.m., March 15)

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