Excellent Team Effort . . . but playoffs were cut short
The 'Harold Sutherland Construction' Peewee Rep Rebels just couldn't hold back Gavin Gibbons and the Shallow Lake Lakers in Game 4 of the OMHA Series.
They battled hard finishing the 1st period in a 1 - 1 tie, but the Lakers doubled the Rebels in the 2nd period and neither team could find the back of the net in the 3rd.
The entire Rebels team did a fabulous job backchecking, passing and killing penalties throughout the game ... but it just wasn't enough.
1st Period - Calvin Stewart won the faceoff in the Lakers end, and got the puck to Jake Moran who passed it over to Austin King at the net. He popped it up and over the goalie at 9:39. Gibbons answered back for the Lakers at 8:12 on a breakaway.
2nd Period - Gibbons added 2 quick goals early in the period, before Jack Kivell cleared the puck out to Curtis Wade and onto Jake, who went in with a high shot blocker side at 12:47. Gibbons struck again at 9:08, and Curtis answered right back with the rebound from Jake's sharp angled shot on net at 8:26. The boys kept the pressure on the Laker's net, but it was Gibbons who scored on a power-play at 0:29.
3rd Period - The action went end to end with both teams' defence working over time. Jason Rudolph-MacLeod and Jesse Cunningham (Lakers) closed the doors and kept the period scoreless . . . leaving the final score 5 - 3.
The Rebels aren't done yet. They will get a bit of a break and then start into their WOAA playdowns with Bruce Peninsula, Ripley and Mount Forest.
Great Series Rebels ... you make us proud!
