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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 came from behind for a second consecutive game Sunday night in a 4-3 shootout victory against the Smith Falls Bears. The win knots the Colts up with the Ca- nadians at 79 points atop the Robinson Division. The Colts desperately needed the win to keep pace with Carleton Place, who defeated Hawkesbury 5-2 just a few hours earlier on Sunday. Which team ends up in first place in the division could come down to the final game of the season for the two teams. The Colts and Canadians each have one more game before they meet each other in Carleton Place Sunday afternoon for the final game of the season. The Colts Sunday night win guarantees the third place Bears -- sitting at 74 points with just two games remaining-- will not be able to sneak past them into second place, and although Brockville – with three games at hand – could reach 79 points, they must hope the Colts lose their final two games and the Braves’ final game will be against a desperate Canadians’ team Friday. Some late game heroics by Pietro An- tonelli got the Colts into overtime for the second consecutive game Sunday after- noon. Mitch Zion finished off the Bears in the shootout after Marly Quince knotted the duel up at one goal a piece after three shooters. Tanner Spink initiated the comeback with less than eight minutes left in the third, and with the Colts trailing 3-1, on a goal from Michael Pontarelli and Anthony Sanniti. Antonelli, the late-game hero on Thursday, scored with 1:39 left in the game on a set up from Pontarelli and Sanniti to send the game into overtime. The Colts fell behind 2-0 early in the sec- ond on a goal by 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 Lumley Arena in Cornwall. In just 52 games, 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 games with three games left to play in the season.
Sexton open the scoring for the Bears on the power play with just 15 seconds left in the first period Grant Copper got the Colts within one goal at the 8:53 mark of the second, but the Bears regained their two-goal lead four minutes later on a goal by Peter Soligo. Jor- dan Piccolino earned the win with 35 saves on 38 shots. The game was a mirror image of Thurs- day’s home game versus the Gloucester Rangers, when some late-game heroics by Antonelli saved the Colts from what could have been a devastating loss. The overtime win moved the Colts into first place in their division, but they were quickly knocked back down to second place when Carleton
beat the Kemptville 73s Friday evening. Antonelli scored the go-ahead goal with 4:50 left in the third period to complete the Colts’ comeback against the Rangers on Thursday, but Gloucester tied it with their goalie racing out of the net for the extra at- tacker with 43 seconds left. But some more heroics from Antonelli sal- vaged the two points when he broke in and scored on Rangers’ netminder Doug John- ston with just 46 seconds left in overtime. Michael Pontarelli racked up one goal and two assists to eclipse the 100-point mark as the league’s scoring leader. The Colts’ sniper has 51 goals and 51 assists for 102 points af- ter tonight’s game. Billy Ulrick tied the game with a little over 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 Anthony 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 bury a power play marker 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 game
five minutes left in the third period to initi- ate the Colts’ comeback 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 more than the Carleton Place Canadians, to temporarily gain the lead in the Robinson Division. The Colts are at home Thursday to face the Yzerman Division’s Nepean Raiders be- fore finishing off the regular season against Carleton Place on Sunday. Follow Colts homes live at CornwallJournal on Twitter. Go to Cornwall Journal on Face- book for links to game stories. thanks to a sloppy line change from the 3L to regain the lead with only 2:58 to go. Just 12 seconds later Alex Bourret makes it 3-1 off a nice pass in the slot fromNicolas Corbeil. The 3L make things interesting when they 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 empty net with just one second to go. On Saturday 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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