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(Posted
9:30 p.m., April 12)
East
end teams capture
10 championship banners as House League season wraps up
By Fred Sherwin
Orléans
Online
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|  Members
of the Orleans Devils pose
for a team picture with the championship banner after downing the Orleans Broskis
5-0 to win the Midget B1 final on Sunday. Fred Sherwin/Photo
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Teams
representing the four east end leagues that make up part of the Gloucester Hockey
Association won 10 championship banners on the weekend as the minor hockey season
came to a thrilling conclusion at the Earl Armstrong Arena. The
Cumberland Minor Hockey Association led the way with four division titles; Gloucester
Centre won three; the Blackburn Hockey Association won two and the Orleans Minor
Hockey Association won one. During
the opening day of the championship finals on Saturday, three of the games had
to be settled in extra time including the Atom B2 final between the Blackburn
Stingers and the Cumberland Ice Dogs. The Stingers won 4-3 on a goal from Maxime
Dubois, two minutes into the first overtime session. Dylan
Hansen scored two goals in regulation for the Stingers, who placed sixth in the
regular season standings, six points ahead of the Ice Dogs who finished eighth. Overtime
wasn't as kind to the Cumberland Fireballs who lost 3-2 to the Russell Warriors
in the Atom C final. Justine Aiseneau scored both of the Fireballs goals in regulation. The
Gloucester Centre Cougers won three of the four Novice championships up for grabs
on the weekend. The
Cougars downed the Blackburn Stingers 3-2 on goals from Daniel Seabi, Cameron
Last and William Cox to win the Novice A title, and the Gloucester Centre #2 squad
won the Novice B championship with a 5-4 overtime win over the Leitrim Hawks. The
Cougars also won the Novice C championship with a 4-2 win over Cumberland in the
opening game on Sunday morning. Antonio Gareau had two goals for the winning team,
while Owen Iving added a goal and two assists. The
Novice B2 championship was won by the Blackburn Stingers who defeated the Cumberland
Thunder 1-0 on a goal by Brendon Sommers at the 10:17 mark of the third period. In
Peewee action, Joshua Belanger had four goals in Cumberland's 6-4 win over Gloucester
Centre in the Peewee B2 final. Unfortunately, the Cumberland All Stars came up
short in their bid to win the Peewee C championship, losing 4-3 to the Russell
Warriors in double overtime. Jacob Milbury had two goals in a close game for the
All Stars. The
Cumberland Snipers won Cumberland's second championship banner, downing the Blackburn
Stingers 2-1 in the Bantam A final. After Brandon Gun scored for the Stingers
at the 8:38 mark of the second period, Martin Goudreault tied the game at the
5:20 mark of the third stanza and then set up Stephen Evans for the winning goal
with 2:33 left in the game. In
other bantam action, the Cumberland Thunder lost 3-0 to Leitrim in the B1 final
and the Orleans Titans fell 6-3 to Russell in the B2 championship game. One
of the most thrilling games of the weekend occurred in the Midget A final where
the Orleans Bandits held off the Russell Warriors in the final minute and 30 seconds
to win 4-3. The
Bandits got goals from Sebastien Chouinard, Kayle Turpin, Alexandre Champagne
and Joey Samuel, while Mathieu Boisvert was called upon to make several big saves
to preserve the win. The
Warriors threw everything they had at the Bandits who had to play the final two
minutes of the game a man down after being called for an infraction. Russell tried
to increase their odds by pulling their goalie with a minute to go to give themselves
a two-man advantage, but Boisvert was equal to the challenge. In
other Midget action, Zachary Towers-Harvey and Mathieu Nadeau-Lemire shared the
goaltending duties as the Orleans Devils shutout the Orleans Broskis 5-0 in the
Midget B1 final and David Perera scored the overtime winner as Cumberland #5 downed
Cumberland #3 in the Midget B2 final. The
final game of the weekend was another all-Cumberland affair between Cumberland
#1 and Cumberland #3 in the Juvenile championship. Cumberland
#1 scored four unanswered goals in the third period to take a relatively comfortable
7-3 lead, or so they thought. With
1:40 left to go in the game, Cumberland #3 exploded for three goals in less than
a minute to make it a one goal game. They continued to press for the equalizer
in the remaining 45 seconds, but Cumberland #1 managed to hold on for the win.
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