Island bantams give strong showings

P.E.I. squads take on New Brunswick counterparts over the weekend

Island bantam AAA hockey teams had a solid weekend in interlocking play with New Brunswick bantam AAA squads by winning two of three games on Sunday, and four of six games overall.

Sunday, the Eastern Express beat the Saint John Sea Dogs 4-3 and the Mid-Isle Matrix outlasted the Kennebacasis Valley Kings 7-5. T

he Prince County Warriors suffered a 4-1 defeat to the Fredericton Blues.

In Saturday’s action, Saint John shut out Mid-Isle 4-0, the Central Attack doubled Fredericton 4-2 and Eastern outgunned Kennebacasis Valley 7-4.

Express 4, Sea Dogs 3

Seth MacLeod’s secondperiod goal proved to be the difference Eastern’s win in Montague.

The game was tied 1-1 on goals by Eastern’s Avery Brown and Saint John’s Sam Oliver until MacLeod’s snipe gave Eastern a 2-1 edge.

Jack Campbell, for Eastern, and Oliver each scored twice in the third for their respective teams.

Cole McKeigan chipped in two assists for the Express, while Jack Dickie tallied a pair of assists for Saint John.

Drew Chapman earned the goaltending win over Alex Myatt.

Eastern went 1-for-8 on the power play. Saint John was 1-for-4 with the extra man.

Blues 4, Warriors 1

Andrew Gweon (1-1), Gavin Stairs and Zach Graham (1-1) scored for Fredericton in the second frame and salted away the win in O’Leary.

Zach Bishop added a firstperiod score.

Carson Wood, from Garrett Culleton and Colby MacDonald, netted the Warriors’ goal on the power play.

Blake Green tallied the goaltending win. Turner Ellis was tagged with the loss.

Fredericton’s power play went 0-for-5.

The game was tied 1-1 after one period and the Blues led 4-1 after two frames.

Matrix 7, Kings 5

Mid-Isle scored four powerplay goals en route to the highoctane win in Abram-Village.

Landon Hardy’s two goals came with the man advantage, while Reese Wyand and Angus Beaton netted the other powerplay scores.

Carson MacKay (1-2), Matthew Mills (1-1) and Harrison James had the rest of the Matrix goals. Spencer Toole had three assists and Kyle Mason chipped in two helpers.

Carter McCluskey (1-2), Ayden Arsenault (1-1), Mike McQuaid (1-1), Marcus Gray and Charlie Jackson scored for the Kings, who went 0-for-3 with the extra man.

Josh Smith earned the goaltending victory over Joey MacPhail.

The game was tied 1-1 after the first period, and Mid-Isle led 4-3 at the second intermission.