Game 3, Sutherland Cup Championship Series
St. Catharines Falcons 3
Chatham Maroons 7
(CHA leads best-of-7 series 2-1)
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4-point games from Richter and Hunt propel Maroons to series lead
Dylan Richter scored his league-leading 12th goal of the playoffs and added 3 assists as the Chatham Maroons defeated the St. Catharines 7-3 in front of 1012 fans at Memorial Arena in Chatham to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
VIDEO: Richter’s 4-point game leads Maroons to 2-1 series lead
Richter is now tied with the Falcons’ Cameron Lowe for the GOJHL playoff scoring lead with 28 points.
15-year-old AP call-up Eamon Edgar scored his 5th goal of the playoffs and added 2 assists, as he now leads all scorers in the series with 4 goals and his 6 points are tied for most in the series with Richter.
Connor Hunt also had a 4-point game including his 7th and 8th goals of the playoffs, while Noah Mathieson (4), Ian Lachance (8) and Ewan McChesney (3) also scored for the Maroons (14-8).
Lachance’s goal was his league-leading 6th power play goal of the playoffs.
Trent Vaillancourt (2), Ally Mostafaie (7) and Treyson Dewar (8) scored for the Falcons (13-5).
VIDEO: Post-game comments from Maroons GM/head coach Richard Santos
VIDEO: Post-game comments from Falcons head coach Tyler Bielby
Maroons netminder Gannon Hunter (W, 14-8) made 28 saves. Falcons goalie Hayden Jeffery (L, 13-5) stopped 42 of 49 shots faced, including 22 saves in the first period in which Chatham outshot St. Catharines 24-11.
The Maroons improved their home record in the playoffs to 9-3, while the Falcons had their three-game road winning streak snapped, dropping their away record to 6-3.
The Maroons were 3/6 on the power play and are 4/11 (36.4%) in the series. St. Catharines was 0/6 with the man advantage and are 0/8 in the series. A total of 145 minutes of penalties were assessed to the two teams, including 84 to the Falcons.
Game 4 will take place Thursday night at the Seymour-Hannah S.E.C. in St. Catharines. Game time is 7:00pm.
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