Morrisburg Junior Lions fighting for a spot in the soon to be reorganized EOJHL

 

Back-to-back losses and very quickly the Morrisburg Junior B Lions find themselves in the bottom mix of the St. Lawrence Division hockey pack.

With three wins to date, the Lions are now in the division basement, tied at six points, with the Akwesasne Wolves and the Alexandria Glens.

Friday night on home ice they lost to the Akwesasne Wolves, and Saturday night, they were handed a 5-1 road loss by the Char-Lan Rebels.

 For the first place Rebels, it marked their second win of the week. Thursday night, they defeated Casselman in their home barn, 4-3, to put themselves five points ahead of the second place Vikings.

The Winchester Hawks climbed out of the division basement and landed in third place thanks to a 4-1 win against Akwesasne. They opened their weekend action in Winchester, Friday night with a 7-5 loss to the Alexandria Glens. 

Friday night in Morrisburg, the Lions were unable to get on the scoreboard. They were, however, able to find the penalty box, opening the door to four consecutive Wolves power-play goals.

Jayden Lemire gave the Wolves a 1-0 lead in the first period. That was followed by another three power-play goals in the second period from the sticks of Hiio Herne, Jack Nardiello, and Dillon Barr.

Barr finished if off for the 5-0 Wolves win with his second goal in the final minute of the second period.

The Wolves were assessed 26 minutes in penalties, which included eight minors and a checking from behind misconduct.

The Lions were assessed 46 minutes in penalties which included 13 minors,  and a pair of misconducts for checking from behind and checking to the head.

Mikael Dion, who was in net for the Lions, gave up the five goals on 44 Wolves shots. Cam Turcotte in the Wolves net, had a light time of it, but stopped all 16 of the Lions shots.

In Williamstown on Saturday night, the Lions Sylvester Bzdyl, with help from Chris Rutley and Clarke Veenstra, put the Lions on the scoreboard with a power-play goal at 5:36 of the first period.

But that was it.

The first place Rebels, pulled ahead 2-1 in the first period and never looked back as they added two more in the second and polished off the 5-1 victory with a Blain MacKay goal at 8:08 of the third period.

Counting the other Rebels goals were Dean Derouchie, Kevin Veilleux, Lawson MacDougall and Tyler Filion.

The Lions were assessed 65 minutes in penalties which included 10 minors, a five minute fighting major to goaltender Ryan Cooper, three misconducts, and a game misconduct.

The Rebels were assessed 37 minutes in penalties which included 11 minors, a fighting major to Quinlin MacDonell and a game misconduct. 

Cooper who was in net for just over 55 minutes gave up five goals in 37 Rebels shots. Rebels goaltender Alex Boileau stopped 32 Lions shots.

Coming up this weekend is the annual Fall Classic Event at the Nick Smith Centre in Arnprior. The weekend of Junior Hockey begins Friday night, runs throughout much of the day on Saturday and again on Sunday.

The Lions are scheduled to play the Valley Division’s Renfrew Timberwolves at 9 p.m. Friday night, October 12. Also on Friday night at 8:30 p.m. on  rink A ice, the Winchester Hawks will play the Metro Division’s Ottawa West Golden Knights.

Game two for the Lions is set for Saturday night, October 13 at 8:30 p.m. against the Valley Division’s Almonte Thunder.

Four games will be played Friday night, 10 Saturday and another eight on Sunday.

The Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey league is once again very proud to have the Ottawa Senators as its presenting sponsor. The Senators have generously provided 88 home game tickets for the MVPs on both team in each of the 22 games as well as Senators’ ball caps.

In addition the Senators have provided four autographed Sens jersey which will be used for a silent auction to support the league which is one of the largest Junior B leagues across Canada.

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The Morrisburg Junior B Lions were just 20 seconds away from their ninth win of the season here Friday night, January 16, when Westport Rideaus’ Cam Goldsmith got in their way.

The clock was ticking down on the Friday night match, and with less than a minute to be played the Lions were protecting a 2-1 lead.

It was at 19:40 that Goldsmith, with help from Simon Corriveau, would come up with the goal against Lions goaltender Keiran Weir to tie the game 2-2 and force it into overtime.

After the scoreless overtime play, the shoot out netted no success for Lions shooters Jacob Kendrick, Michael Paquette and Alex Sifton.

The Rideaus starting shooter Dawson Fawcett was also unsuccessful, and it was their shooter number two, Patrick Drouin who would provide the winner and force the Lions to accept the one point for the shoot out loss.

Friday night’s game got rolling with a scoreless first period.

Forty-two seconds into the second period, Johnny Moor put the Rideaus on the scoreboard.

Then at 9:54 the Lions, Alex Sifton struck to tie it with assists provided by Ryan Griffin and Curtis Evans.

The 1-1 tie held until 11:49 of the third period when a Jacob Kendrick goal from Landon Veenstra and Brodie Barkley put the Lions ahead 2-1.

Eight minutes later Goldsmith provided the tying goal to force the overtime.

Sunday, January 18, it was the Lions “pack the rink” day with all area youth 16 years and under invited by the Lions as their guests at the game, courtesy of Horner & Pietersma, Barristers, Solicitors and Notaries, Morrisburg. 

The attending youth were proudly wearing their South Dundas sweaters and a number of free door prizes topped off the day.

Unfortunately, it was not a good day on the ice for the Lions who were doubled 4-2 by the visiting Char-Lan Rebels.

The Rebels went right to work in Sunday’s game to go up 2-0 in the first period on goals by Brian Landry and Liam Vipond.

Jesse Fontaine made it 3-0 on the Rebels’ power play at 6:14 of the second period.

That’s the way it stayed until the Lions found themselves in the first 10 minutes of the third period.

Ryan Griffin put the Lions on the scoreboard on their power play at 3:13 with Dylan Nixon providing the assist.

At 6:53, Eric Evan (from Jordan Smail and Jacob Kendrick) got it to within one goal of the tie, but that was it.

The Lions were unable to put anything more past Rebels goaltender Kevan Dumouchel, while the Rebels got one more from Brennan Markell for the 4-2 win.

Brett Hahn was in the Lions net for the loss.

The Rebels sat out 30 minutes on 11 penalties and the Lions were assessed 28 minutes on 10 infractions

Coming up on Sunday, January 25, the Lions will host the St. Lawrence Division’s first place Casselman Vikings. Game time is 2:30 p.m.

The final games of the regular season will be played the weekend of Friday, February 13-15.

The Vikings are 19 points ahead of the second place Alexandria Glens with 59 points to the Glens 40. The Winchester Hawks, 37 points, are looking solid in third place and are chasing the Glens, while the Rebels 29 points, and the Akwesasne Wolves, 26 points, are battling for the fourth and final playoff position.

The Lions are in last place with 17 points. 

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