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Colts rebound to win Game 4 versus Raiders Colts forward Mitch Zion chats with Jordan Piccolino during a break in the action in their CCHL championship series versus the Nepean Raiders. Piccolino has been huge in the Colts three wins in the best of seven series.
versus Carleton Place. Piccolino was chased from the net when he allowed his fifth goal of the game just 12 seconds in the second period, to be re- placed by the seldom used James Edward- son, who himself was spectacular, making 16 saves in aid of the Colts comeback. Marly Quince got the Colts on the board 4:01 into the second and Michael Pontarelli scored one at 11:20 in the second and one late in the third to bring the Colts within two goals of Nepean, but that is as close as they would get. Anthony Sanniti and Pontarelli both had two point nights to lead the Colts in the scoring department. Piccolino allowed five goals on just seven shots being replaced by Edwardson who was a perfect 16 for 16 in the shot-blocking department. The Colts outshot the Raiders 56 to 28 in a losing effort. The loss followed a 4-3 victory last Tues- day which temporarily gave the Colts a 2-0 series lead, after winning the series opener in Carleton Place last Sunday afternoon. Colts’ netminder Jordan Piccolino back- stopped the home team to a 4-3 win turn- ing away 51 of 54 shots directed his way. Mitch Zion gave the Colts the lead early in the second on a shorthanded breakaway after Michael Pontarelli tied the game 1-1 late in the first on a nifty breakaway deke. Marly Quince made it 3-1 for the Colts, but the Raiders’ Corey Durocher converted a gift at the Cornwall blueline when he ri- fled a high shot off the iron past Piccolino to narrow the score. But it didn’t take long for the Colts to re- gain their two-goal cushion. Jake Martin scored at 6:06 ointo the third, just 10 sec- onds after Durocher’s goal to make it 4-2 for the Colts. Brent Norris got the Raiders back within one goal 9:35 into the third, but they could get the puck past Piccolino despite sus- tained pressure late in the third and Matt Zawadzki out of the net for the extra at- tacker.
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One bad period cost the Cornwall Colts at home, despite scoring three goals in a comeback bid that proved too little, too late on Thursday night. In contrast, the Colts only scored one goal, but played a full 60 minutes with the help of another standout performance from Jordan Piccolino to shut out the Nepean Raiders 1-0. The win put the Colts up three games to one in their CCHL championship series with a chance to clinch the Bogart Cup at home Monday night. (See www.editionap.ca for past game results). Kevin Hope gave the Colts the lead on a set up from Carl Belizario 5:55 into the sec- ond in Nepean, then good team defence and another standout performance from Piccolino, who stopped all 30 shots sent his way, took care of the rest. The Colts have been vastly outshot in the majority of Piccolino’s wins late in the play- offs, but they seemed determined to give the overworked netminder a break, allow- ing just 30 shots against him and more im- portantly, just seven in the third period to stymie Nepean’s comeback bid. The Colts’ penalty killers also stepped up their game, snuffing out eight minutes of Nepean Raiders’ power players on four in- fractions. The Raiders were forced to kill six minutes of penalties on three infractions. The game was a dramatic shift from Thursday night’s tilt, during which the Raid- ers scored five unanswered goals – four in the first and one 12 seconds into the sec- ond – on their way to a 5-3 win in Cornwall. The Colts could not find an answer for a hungry and determined Nepean team, which finally found a chink in the armour of Colts’ netminder Jordan Piccolino who had been stellar in a four game winning streak stretching to the end of semi-final series
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