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The Morrisburg Junior Lions opened the 2013/14 hockey season with a pair of losses, to the Alexandria Glens, 7-5 Friday night, and the Winchester Hawks 7-4 on home ice Saturday night. 

Friday night in Alexandria, the Lions held the Glens to a 2-1 first period lead and tied the game early in the second period. But three unanswered second period goals from the Glens’ Ryan Sabourin, Gabriel Cuillerier and Adam Cooke gave the Glens a commanding advantage heading into the third.

The Lions won the third frame, 3-2, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the Glens’ early lead.

Scoring for the Lions were Landon Veenstra, unassisted at 7:23 of the first period, and Justin Lefebvre, unassisted at 3:16 of the second period.

Dallas Blacksmith scored on the Lions power play, 1:04 into the third period, and at 4:22 Brodie Barkley connected, unassisted, to cut the Glens’ advantage to 5-4.

Bradley Gabbour made it 6-4 Glens at 5:39, and Connor MacLeod stretched their lead to 7-4 at 13:20.

Michael Paquette scored the Lions final counter, unassisted, with 49 seconds left on the clock.

Rookie goaltender Keiran Weir saw 30 minutes of action in the Lions net and was replaced by veteran goaltender John Gilmer.

Callum Cassidy-Matthews earned the win for the Glens.

Friday night on home ice the Lions again tried to play catch up hockey, but were unsuccessful in a 7-4 loss to the Hawks.

The Hawks managed just one goal in the first period, that from the stick of Austin Rothe.

The Hawks collected big time in the second period going up 4-0, before the Lions got them stopped with a Justin Lefebvre counter (assisted by Dallas Blacksmith and Jacob Kendrick) at 8:29 of the frame.

Josh Stubbings counted once more for the Hawks, and the Lions Paquette collected goal number two (assisted by Zack Renfrew and Justin Rutley) at 17:18 to end the second period 5-2 Hawks.

The Lions regrouped to start the third period with goals from Dallas Blacksmith (Cole Fowler) at 2:24 and Jacob Kendrick (Jordan Smail and Fowler) 8:33.

This cut the gap to 5-4 and that’s the way it stayed until late in the frame when the Hawks put two more into the empty Lions net for the 7-4 win.

Weir, who started in the Lions net was relieved by Gilmer.

Daylon Courchene saw action for the Hawks. 

The Lions were assessed seven minor penalties and one misconduct, while the Hawks sat out eight minors and were assessed four misconducts.

Coming up this weekend, the Lions will be at home on Sunday, afternoon, September 28, to the Char-Lan Rebels. Game time is 2:30 p.m.

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It took three games, but Friday night (February 22) the South Dundas Bantam B Rep Lions finished off the NGS Braves with a 2-0 victory and are now preparing to meet Alexandria in Upper Canada Minor Hockey second round playoff action.

The series kicks off tonight, Wednesday, February 27 in Alexandria. Game time is 7:30 p.m. Game two of the four-point series is set for Monday, March 4 at 8 p.m. in Morrisburg, and game three, if necessary, returns to Alexandria, Thursday, March 7.

The Lions got off to a good start against the NGS Braves with a 7-3 victory on home ice last Tuesday, February 19. Then on Wednesday night, they were on the snowy road to Maxville where they were hoping to wrap up the four point series, but the Braves battled back with a 5-2 win to force a third match.

That was played Friday night in Morrisburg, with the Lions claiming the game win, 2-0, and the series win, four points to two.

Friday night, Lions goaltender Christian Francis was unbeatable as the Lions went to work on the win.

It was late in the first period that Drew Minish goal got it rolling, unassisted.

From then on, the hometown fans were on the edge of their seats as the Lions worked to hold onto their slim advantage and try to add to it.

That didn’t happen until the end of the game when Matthew Woolsey shot the puck in the empty Braves net for the 2-0 win.

Assisting on the Woolsey goal were Josh Perry and Vincent Baron-Renaud.

In the series opener in Morrisburg on February 19, the Lions were forced to come from behind as they worked their way to the 7-3 victory.

The Braves went up 2-0 in the first period on a pair of goals by Owen Bourgeois.

Early into the second period, Riley Black put the Lions on the board with help from Ben Michels and Aaron Smith.

They collected another two goals in the second period while the Braves counted one, to make it 3-3 heading into the third period.

Aaron Smith (assisted by Callahan Bilmer) and Riley Black (assisted by Quinn Bennis and Smith) counted the Lions second period goals.

Then in the third, Francis shut down the Braves shooters while the Lions went to work for four unanswered tallies and the 7-3 win.

Drew Minish led the third period charge with three goals, and Koltin Merkley counted a single.

Riley Black assisted on two of the goals and single helpers were provided by Smith, Quinn Bennis, Elese St. Louis and Michels.

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