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Colts keep pace with Carleton Place
GREG KIELEC greg.kielec@eap.on.ca
Call them the comeback kids. The Cornwall Colts ca m e fro m behind for a second consecutive ga m e Sunda y night in a 4-3 shootout victor y against the S m ith Falls Bears. The win knots the Colts up with the Ca- nadians at 79 points atop the Robinson Division. The Colts desperatel y needed the win to keep pace with Carleton Place, who defeated Hawkesbur y 5-2 just a few hours earlier on Sunda y . Which tea m ends up in first place in the division could co m e down to the final ga m e of the season for the two tea m s. The Colts and Canadians each have one m ore ga m e before the y m eet each other in Carleton Place Sunda y afternoon for the final ga m e of the season. The Colts Sunda y night win guarantees the third place Bears -- sitting at 74 points with just two ga m es re m aining-- will not be able to sneak past the m into second place, and although Brockville – with three ga m es at hand – could reach 79 points, the y m ust hope the Colts lose their final two ga m es and the Braves’ final ga m e will be against a desperate Canadians’ tea m Frida y . So m e late ga m e heroics b y Pietro An- tonelli got the Colts into overti m e for the second consecutive ga m e Sunda y after- noon. Mitch Zion finished off the Bears in the shootout after Marl y Quince knotted the duel up at one goal a piece after three shooters. Tanner Spink initiated the co m eback with less than eight m inutes left in the third, and with the Colts trailing 3-1, on a goal fro m Michael Pontarelli and Anthon y Sanniti. Antonelli, the late-ga m e hero on Thursda y , scored with 1:39 left in the ga m e on a set up fro m Pontarelli and Sanniti to send the ga m e into overti m e. The Colts fell behind 2-0 earl y in the sec- ond on a goal b y Yannick Crete after Patrick
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CCHL leading scorer Michael Pontarelli of the Cornwall Colts sets up Gloucester Rangers’ goalie Doug Johnston for a highlight- reel deke to get the Colts on the scoreboard Thursday night at the Ed Lu m ley Arena in Cornwall. In just 52 ga m es, Pontarelli has 51 goals and 53 assists for 104. He leads Brockville’s Ben Blasko by eight points, who has 32 goals and 64 assists in 59 ga m es with three ga m es left to play in the season.
Sexton open the scoring for the Bears on the power pla y with just 15 seconds left in the first period Grant Copper got the Colts within one goal at the 8:53 m ark of the second, but the Bears regained their two-goal lead four m inutes later on a goal b y Peter Soligo. Jor- dan Piccolino earned the win with 35 saves on 38 shots. The ga m e was a m irror i m age of Thurs- da y ’s ho m e ga m e versus the Gloucester Rangers, when so m e late-ga m e heroics b y Antonelli saved the Colts fro m what could have been a devastating loss. The overti m e win m oved the Colts into first place in their division, but the y were quickl y knocked back down to second place when Carleton
beat the Ke m ptville 73s Frida y evening. Antonelli scored the go-ahead goal with 4:50 left in the third period to co m plete the Colts’ co m eback against the Rangers on Thursda y , but Gloucester tied it with their goalie racing out of the net for the extra at- tacker with 43 seconds left. But so m e m ore heroics fro m Antonelli sal- vaged the two points when he broke in and scored on Rangers’ net m inder Doug John- ston with just 46 seconds left in overti m e. Michael Pontarelli racked up one goal and two assists to eclipse the 100-point m ark as the league’s scoring leader. The Colts’ sniper has 51 goals and 51 assists for 102 points af- ter tonight’s ga m e. Bill y Ulrick tied the ga m e with a little over
five m inutes left in the third period to initi- ate the Colts’ co m eback after Pontarelli got the Colts on the scoreboard late 7:53 into the second with a highlight-reel goal on Doug Johnston, who was stellar in net for the Rangers with 57 saves on the night. The win gave the Colts 77 points, two m ore than the Carleton Place Canadians, to te m poraril y gain the lead in the Robinson Division. The Colts are at ho m e Thursda y to face the Yzer m an Division’s Nepean Raiders be- fore finishing off the regular season against Carleton Place on Sunda y . Follow Colts homes live at CornwallJournal on Twitter. Go to Cornwall Journal on Face- book for links to game stories.
Back-to-back wins for River Kings
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The Cornwall River Kings defeated the 3L from Riviere du Loups twice on home ice over the weekend. They doubled them in both games with a 4-2 win Sunday after- noon and a 6-3 victory Saturday night at the Ed Lumley arena. Sasha Pokulok sent a long distance pass to Anthon y Pittarelli who beat the 3L tender high glove side with a backhand. It was 1-0 after the first period. The 3L stuck around long enough to bur y a power pla y m arker 9:48 into the third when Nocholas Choui- nard found the back of the net to tie things up. Pittarelli scores his second of the ga m e
thanks to a slopp y line change fro m the 3L to regain the lead with onl y 2:58 to go. Just 12 seconds later Alex Bourret m akes it 3-1 off a nice pass in the slot fro m Nicolas Corbeil. The 3L m ake things interesting when the y pulled their goalie and score with 1:18 to go. The River Kings sealed the win just before the fi- nal buzzer when Olivier Proulx scores into an e m pt y net with just one second to go. On Saturda y night Pierre-Luc Faubert scored a pair of goals to lead the River Kings to a 6-3 win. Olivier Proulx and Nicolas Cor- beil each chipped in with a goal and an assist in front of 2,588 fans.
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