| (Posted
1 a.m., Feb. 22) Rangers
score three in the third to down Grads in Family Day matinee
By Fred Sherwin
Orleans Online The
Gloucester Rangers and the Cumberland Grads are two teams heading in opposite
directions. That much was evident on Monday, as the Rangers scored five power
play goals in a 7-3 drubbing of the Grads during a special Family Day matinee
game at the Earl Armstrong Arena. The
Rangers are currently locked in a battle for fourth place and home ice advantage
in the first round of the playoffs against the Carleton Place Canadians, while
the Grads are playing out the remainder of the season after being mathematically
eliminated from the playoffs over a week ago. Fabian
Walsh got the Grads off to a good start with a goal at the 3:45 mark of the first
period, but it took the Rangers all of 23 seconds to eliminate the deficit on
a goal by Jordan Fequet. Cumberland then dug themselves a deep hole by taking
back to back hooking penalties later on in the period which the Rangers power
play managed to convert into as pair of goals less than a minute apart. Nathan
Pancel beat Rangers' starter Brett Ayers for the first power play marker, and
Michael McMurtry scored 54 seconds later to give gloucester a 3-1 lead at the
break. The
Grads did a good job battling back to tie the game in the second on a pair of
goals by Peter Mott and Kevin Tansey, but it was all for not as McMurty's second
of the game with 1:42 left in the period put the home team up for good. The
Rangers added three power play goals in the third, including a pair from Pancel,
who wound up with a power play hat trick, and a marker from Michael Webley to
give the Rangers the 7-3 win. The
third period also included a pair of fisticuffs. Philipe Doucet squared off against
Ben Hartley in the first altercation and Tansey dropped the gloves against Mike
Lemay 30 second later. The
win allows the Rangers to maintain a two point lead over Carleton Place with four
games left to go. They host the Nepean Raiders on Friday, travel to Pembroke on
Sunday, and then finish out their regular season schedule with games against Kemptville
and Cornwall On March 4 and 5. The
Grads, meanwhile, only have two games left before the off season starts. They
host Kemptville next Sunday as part of the Hockey Day in Navan festivities, and
then close out the season with a game against Cornwall on March 3.  For
more information on the Cumberland Grads
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((Updated
daily) NHL,
NBA,CJHL,
High School
CJHL
Weekly Stats
& Standings Yesterday's
games
Tuesday,
March 1
Kemptville
6 Carleton
Place 2
Hawkesbury
5 Kanata
4 SO Wednesday,
March 2
Ottawa
5 Brockville
4
Pembroke
3 Nepean
1 Sunday, Jan. 22
Cumberland at Cornwall Friday,
March 4
Kemptville at Gloucester
Carleton Place at Brockville
Nepean
at Pembroke
Hawkesbury at Smiths Falls Saturday,
March 5
Gloucester at Cornwall
Nepean at Ottawa
Hawkesbury at Carleton
Place Sunday,
March 6
Brockville at Hawkesbury
Smiths Falls at Pembroke |
