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The South Dundas Lions Peewee B2 House team continued their winning ways on Saturday afternoon as they downed the visiting Smith Falls Bears 5-0. 

The Lions, Bears and the South Grenville Rangers were all tied for first place at seven points in the west division and with the win, the Lions move two points ahead at the season’s quarter way mark.

The Lions opened Sunday’s game with unsuccessful scoring opportunities from Austin Robinson and linemates Brody Smail and William Dejong who kept the puck alive in the Bears end for three Robinson wrist shots against Bears goalie Austin Evans. 

The Bears pushed back and got a chance on Lions goalie Sam Waytowich who shut the door on a Luke Callaghan shot. 

Lions forward Colin Minish responded with a drive to the Bears net, but was tripped to put the Lions on the power play. 

After a Bears clearing, Adam Lapier picked up the puck in his own end and skated through the Bears defenders before having his shot turned aside. The puck stayed deep in the Bears end and the Lions were pressing when Kolby Hamilton picked up the puck and avoided some checks before getting the puck behind the Bears goal-line. 

The Bears would unable to clear, and the Lions opened the scoring on their power play when Colin Minish jammed home the puck on a wrap around. 

Seconds later off the face-off, Minish broke into the Bears end and fed a pass to Grant Wells who wristed a shot home for a 2-0 lead.

The Lions continued to attack and forward Brooke Lapier got a chance, but shot wide, after Dean Lapier passed her the puck from his defensive position.

The Bears picked up the pace in the last few minutes of the period as forward Luke Callaghan tipped the puck past Oakley Beavers to break in on Waytowich. But the Lions goalie would not be beat as he stuck out his right  pad to make a big save. 

In the dying seconds of the first period, the Lions struck again when Smail and Robinson teamed up to get the puck into the Bears end. The pass went to William Dejong whose shot was deflected off the Evans glove into the net for a commanding 3-0 Lions lead.

In the second period the line of Brooke Lapier, Julenea Barnhartd and Trinity Hanes picked up the Lions scoring chances as they pressed the Bears net and continued to drive shots towards the goal. 

The Lions found themselves killing a penalty when Oakley Beavers threw a check at the Bears blue-line and was penalized four minutes for checking to the head. 

The Lions killed the first two minutes on some excellent defensive play by Shayna VanBeilen and Bryce Bradford. 

Later on a dump a Bears forward, who snowed Lions goalie Waytowich, was called for unsportsmanlike conduct which negated the Bears power play. 

South Dundas carried the play through the four on four before an offensive face-off led to the Bears best scoring chance of the day. On the face-off, the Bears centreman timed the puck drop perfectly and wristed a shot that was going into the top corner of the Lions net. But Waytowich got his glove on it to make the save and maintain the Lions 3-0 advantage.

With first place on the line and a shutout within his graps, Waytowich was strong through the third period. 

Dejong netted his second goal off a scrambled play where defenceman Oakley Beavers flipped the puck high into the air towards the net where Smail picked it up and fed Dejong for the open shot home. 

On the next shift Minish picked up a puck at his own blue line, skated through two defenders into the Bears end and fed Wells who would wrist home his second of the game and Minish’s third point on the day.

The Peewee B2 House Lions are next in action on Monday night in Brockville and at home next Saturday against North Dundas.

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The South Dundas Lions are heading into game one of the Upper Canada Minor Hockey League’s Peewee B House championship final tonight, Wednesday, March 11, in Morrisburg against the Brockville Braves. Game time is 7 p.m.

The Lions eliminated the Alexandria Glens in two straight games on the weekend. They opened the series on home ice on Saturday with a hard-fought, well deserved 3-2 win and then took their game to Alexandria, on Sunday where they turned it up a notch for a 5-1 victory to win the Peewee B House East Division Championship four points to zero.

The win puts them in the UCMHL Championship final against the Braves who tackled and defeated the South Grenville Rangers in two games straight for the West Division Championship.

“We battled Alexandria all year long for first place and beat them on the last day of the regular season to clinch the East Division Title,” said Lions coach Jason Broad following the Lions East Division playoff championship win on Sunday. “I thought if we met them in the playoffs, it would be a tough series.”

“Saturday’s game (3-2 Lions win) was one of the best played games of the whole season. Both teams played very well and the game was highlighted by goaltenders.”

The strong goaltending, Brendan Shaver and Michaela Mustard for the Lions and Alexandre Duval, kept the scorers at bay throughout the first and second periods. All of the scoring occurred in the (18 minute) third period, in a seesaw battle that saw first the Lions score and then the Glens reply.

The winning goal, scored by Jaeden Phifer-Shaver and assisted by Nolan Henry and Ben Lapier with 2:45 left in the game, was the result of a great passing play between the three.

The scoring started early in the third period with Jack Connors the first to meet with success for the Lions with help from Kolby Latullippe.

Connors goal at 1:51 of the third, was followed at 2:28 by the Glen Maxime Pilon to keep the game even at 1-1.

End to end action and some great goaltender saves were featured until 11:22 when Ben Lapier counted the Lions second goal with help from Henry and Owen Fetterly.

Again the Lions lead didn’t last long. The Glens charged back with Andrew MacMaster counting at 14:14 to tie it 2-2.

That set the stage for the Phifer-Shaver winner at 15:15 of the third period.

The series resumed in Alexandria on Sunday, and the Lions turned it up a notch to post a 5-1 victory and sweep the four-point championship series.

“In game two in Alexandria we played even better,” said Broad. “We continued to pressure them offensively, and we broke out with the five goals clinching the series.”

“I’m very proud of the effort we’ve put in, not only in game but in our practices. We continue to focus on the skills of the games as opposed to tactics, and we can see it paying off now.”

In Alexandria, the Lions led 1-0 after the first period on a Jaeden Phifer-Shaver goal assisted by Nolan Henry and Kieran Geurkink.

Henry made it 2-0 Lions, 4:34 into the second period with Phifer-Shaver and Trent Rae assisting, and Phifer-Shaver counted goal number three at 11:39 of the second period with help from Ben Lapier and Jayden Rowe.

The Glens got on the board with a Joseph Robertson goal less than one minute into the third period, but that was it.

The Lions got two more from Lapier (assisted by Phifer-Shaver and Henry) and from Phifer-Shaver (assisted by Henry and Lapier) for the 5-1, East Division Championship win.

After a first round bye, for their first place regular season division finish, the Lions eliminated South Stormont in East Division semi-final playoff action with 8-1 and 4-1 wins.

The five point UCMHL championship series opens tonight, Wednesday, March 11 at 7 p.m. in Morrisburg. Games two and three, according to early information provided, are scheduled to be played immediately following March break, on Monday, March 23 and Tuesday, March 24. Both are scheduled for Brockville, with times yet to be announced. Game four, if necessary, would be back in Morrisburg on Wednesday, March 25 at 7 p.m.

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The South Dundas Bantam B Rep Lions kicked off the season on home ice, Monday, October 3, with a 3-2 loss to the South Grenville Rangers, but then got on the right track for game two with a 5-2 victory against the South Stormont Selects in Long Sault, on Friday, October 7.

The first league game against South Grenville proved the Rangers were out for revenge from the previous week’s 3-0 exhibition loss to the Lions.  

At 5:28 of the first period, former Lion, Drew Gillard scored on a two-on-one, when his shot beat Lion goaltender Zach Frawley cleanly on the blocker side. 

It wasn’t until the final seconds of the period that the Lions were able to tie the game on an Andrew Jarvis goal assisted by Josh Black and Quinn Bennis.

In the second period,  the Rangers went ahead when an unprotected Frawley stopped the original blast from Nicholas McColl and Devan Miller pounced on the rebound.  

That effort was negated when the Lions Randy Fawcett, after successfully fighting for possession of the puck, delivered it to the top corner of the Rangers net to again even things up. Evan Mullin picked up the assist.

Early in the third, Andrew Hanna beat a screened Frawley for what would turn out to be the Rangers winning goal. 

The remainder of the period featured end-to-end action, and with 24.6 seconds remaining, Frawley was pulled for an extra attacker.  The Rangers, however held on for the win.

On Friday, October 7th, the Lions were in Long Sault where they clipped the South Stormont Selects for their first win of the young season, 5-2.

Riley Barry (from Spencer Heldens) kicked off the Lions scoring at 1:29 of the first frame with a blast from inside the blue line that beat Drew Nichol cleanly.  

Minutes later, Cameron Chayer scored for the Lions on a nice wrist shot to the top corner with Heldens setting it up on a two on one opportunity.  

After Selects Alex Cleary, on a breakaway, was knocked down by defenseman Toby Mullin, his penalty shot beat Frawley and the Selects were back in it, now trailing just 2-1.  

Early in the second period, the Lions Andrew Jarvis made an end-to-end rush with the Lions playing shorthanded, and his shot left a rebound for a waiting Heldens  who made it 3-1.    

With 18 seconds left in the second period, Andrew Lalonde (Tavish MacLeod) was finally able to put one past Frawley when his slap shot beat him on glove side. That cut the gap to 3-2 heading into the third period.

Early in the third, Mullin drew a four minute (hit to head)  penalty, and Josh Black was assessed his first penalty in two years for cross checking which gave the Selects a five on three, power-play opportunity. The Lions penalty kill, however, was up to the task, and the Selects were held from the scoreboard.

Half way through the period, Barry scored his second goal, from Jarvis, and Randy Fawcett, assisted  by Bennis,  rounded it out on the Lions power play  for the 5-2 victory.

Quinn Bennis, who was moved to defence, played a strong game, along with Spencer Heldens who had a three point performance and Riley Barry who skated hard for a two-goal performance.

The Lions were at home to Brockville on Monday,  October 10. They travel to Athens, this Friday night October 14th for a 6 p.m start, and on Monday, October 17 they host Perth at 8 p.m.

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