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Times -Advocate, April 17, 1991
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Lucan bantams win OMHA championship
Edge Stroud 3-2
We are the champions - The Lucan bantams beat Stroud 3-2 late Saturday night to win the OMHA title
and afterwards did a victory skate with their trophy
Godfrey defeats Lucan
midgets in overtime
LUCAN - Although they didn't
win, the 1990-91 hockey season
for the Lucan midgets is far from
disappointing.
Saturday night at the Lucan
Community Centre, they lost 4-2
in overtime to Godfrey in the On-
tario Minor Hockey Association
'DD' championships.
But, as pointed out by Lucan as-
sistant coach Bruce Cornish, it's
the first time since 1952 since a
midget team from Lucan has made
it to the finals, ,
Heading into Satdrddy's game,
. Godfrey (near Kingston), only
needed a tie to win as they led the
six point series, five points to
three. However, OMHA rules indi-
cated the game had to go into
overtime even though Godfrey
only needed a tie.
If the game was tied after the
ten-minute overtime, then both
teams would have received a sin-
gle point and Godfrey would have
won the series.
In overtime, Kevin Brown
scored on a powerplay just 53 sec-
onds into the extra period and cap-
tain Al Pixley added an insurance
marker.
After the game, Lucan coach
Rick Abel wasn't disappointed
with the way his team played.
"They did everything we asked
them to do," he said.
Lucan scored first when, on the
powerplay, Paul O'Shea shot it
across the front of the net and Brad
Coughlin knocked it down and put
it past Tim Ball...J
That was the only scoring in the
first frame but Godfrey did have a
good chance to tie it but Stewart
Ashton came up with a big sprawl-
ing glove save with 1:08 left.
Godfrey only had three shots in
the first, but quickly regrouped in
the second and tied it up.
A mistake on the Lucan defence
gave Brown a breakaway and he
By Fred Groves
LUCAN - 'We are the champi-
ons', a song recorded by Queen
rocked the halls of the Lucan
Community Centre late Saturday
night as the home team won the
Ontario Minor Hockey Associa-
tion bantam 'DD' championship.
A shorthanded goal by Brian
Heckman and outstanding goal-
tending by Mark Hickson, lifted
Lucan to a 3-2 win over Stroud;
taking the six point series in five
games.
Lucan held a slim 2-1 lead after
two periods but Stroud buzzed all
around Hickson and in the first
five minutes of the third period, he
made four game -winning saves.
Hickson slammed the door on
Sean Payne and Dwayne Antle on
the same play and then stopped
Stroud on a three -on -one. The Lu -
can goalie also had to take a lot of
abuse from Chris Butcher who
slapped at his glove twice while
Hickson covered the puck.
Butcher was sent to the penalty
box both times and it seemed to
make the already high-spirited
Stroud fans get even more upset.
The game saw 12 minor penal-
ties assessed to Stroud and 10 to
the locals.
"Our penalty killing at the end
was good but our goalie came up
big," said Lucan coach Brett Fair-
weather.
After the game, Ijickson admitted
prior to the opening faceoff he was
a little nervous, but settled down
right away.
By the time I hit the ice I was
okay," he said.
Score first: Lucan got on the
board first just over seven minutes
into the contest when Jason Hodg-
son and Chris Haskeu teamed on a
two -on -one situation for the only
goal of the first period.
Late in the opening 15 minutes,
Lucan had a two-man 'advantage
for 35 seconds but failed to capital-
ize.
Stroud tied the score early in the
second when Mike Costen shot one
off the boards, it came back, hit
Hickson in the back of the skate
and went in.
Both teams had their chances to
go ahead as Stroud finedahigh one
which looked to go in the corner
and while killing a penalty, Lucan's
Rob Paul was hauled down behind
the Stroud net.
Paul's wrist shot from close range
gave the locals a 2-1 lead after two
periods. Again Lucan had a two-
man advantage and Stroud got
worn out killing off the penalties.
With 3:25 left in regulation play,
and killing another penalty, Heck-
man went in on a breakaway and
although collided with Stroud goal-
ie Tony Maglietta, managed to get
the puck in the net before it was
knocked off.
"I knew it was a goal when the
linesman pointed to the net," said
Fairweather.
"That's when the whole bench
went crazy."
So did the Stroud fans as they
tossed debris onto the ice and more
than a kind word towards the offi-
cials.
But the celebration had to wait as
Stroud kept attacking and two pen-
alties to Lucan didn't help the situa-
tion.
Lucan had two in the box, Stroud
pulled their goalie and with six
skaters against three, scored with
30 seconds left. Cameron Shields
made it 3-2 but Hickson and the
rest of the Lucan midgets held them
off to the final horn.
It was a long road to the final se-
ries, and Fairweather said, "I feel
relieved to get it all over with."
And as a confident Hickson, put
it simply , "1 believe we were the
better team all along."
scored shorthanded. Godfrey then
went ahead in the third period on
what could be called a controver-
sial goal
During a scramble in front of
Ashton, the net was knocked off.
"He (the referee) said the puck
went off one of our players," said
Abel.
"Every goal they (Godfrey)
scored was the same way, they got
a break and used it."
But with less than two minutes
left: in the third, Brian Lewis
pounced on a loose puck and as he
shot it, it just tricked into the cor-
ner.
That tied it up again and sent the
game into overtime.
The Lucan mid?ets who won the
International Regional Silver Stick
in Forest and face Lambeth in the
Shamrock League championship,
dedicated their season to Peter Con-
lin who recently passed away.
Celebration - While it took lots
of hard work, photo right; Lucan
'won the bantam final and
jumped off the bench in celebra-
tion.
Loose puck - Shane Pfaff was close but couldn't score on this attempt for the Lucan midgets.
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OMHA finalists: The Lucan Atoms were finalists M the OMHA 'DD'
finals this year. Here are, front, left; Jeremy Cornish, Pat Conlin,.
Corrie Smith, Ryan Carrell, Chad Greenlee, Scott Mathers. Back
left; Matt Porter, Joe Morley, Ryan Thomas, Scott Thompson, David
Riddell, Robbie Sliver, Eric Yeo.
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ilk.Congratulations to the Lucan Bantams ){
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