The Avs have it in OT

Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League fans got their money’s worth Wednesday night — and Thursday morning — when the Ancaster Avalanche hosted the St. Catharines Falcons.

There were nine seconds remaining in the third overtime period when Liam Van Loon scored on the power play giving the Avalanche a 3-2 come-frombehind victory.

Third-seeded Ancaster scored three unanswered goals to even the best-of-seven Golden Horseshoe Conference semifinal with the No. 2 seed Falcons at two wins apiece.

Game 5 in a series in which the home team so far has won each time is 7 p.m. Friday at Jack Gatecliff Arena in St. Catharines. The sixth game is back in Ancaster for a 7:30 p.m. faceoff Saturday at Morgan Firestone Arena.

The Falcons have home-ice advantage should a seventh game be needed to decide who will be going on to face the defending conference champion Caledonia Corvairs in the final.

Tanner Main scored a shorthanded goal and Michael Davies an even-strength marker to give St. Catharines a 2-0 lead 3:27 into the second period of Wednesday night’s game in Ancaster.

Adam Meijer, on the power play, and Benjamin Woodhouse, with 1:03 left in the second period, replied for the Avalanche tying the game at two-all heading into the final frame.

Woodhouse had a chance to complete the comeback and end the drama midway into the first overtime but failed to find the back of the net after he was awarded a penalty shot.

Ancaster outshot St. Catharines 69-59 in a marathon in which the Avs’ Ryan Dugas and the Falcons’ Owen Savory were kept busy in their respective nets.

Ancaster went 2-for-8 on the power play; St. Catharines, 0for-8.

The Avalanche edged the Falcons in head-to-head play during the regular season three wins to two with one game ending in a tie. They outscored the Falcons 13-12 over the course of the sixgame series.

Canucks sidelined

The Caledonia Corvairs are heading into the third round of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League players, the Niagara Falls Canucks are moving into the off-season.

Owen Lane scored two goals, including one on the power play, Wednesday night in Caledonia, where the No. 1 seed Corvairs

eliminated the fourth-seeded Canucks with a 4-1 victory.

Cal Davis added an evenstrength marker and Owen Lane an empty-netter as Caledonia took the best-of-seven Golden Horseshoe Conference semifinal four games to one.

Hayden Broomhead replied on the power play for Niagara Falls after the Corvairs jumped out to a 3-0 lead.

Caledonia outshot the Canucks 43-30 and finished the game 1for-7 on the power play. Niagara Falls went 1-for-8 with a man advantage.

The Corvairs are going to the conference finals for the fifth year in a row and seeking their fourth Sutherland Cup provincial junior B championship since relocated to the Golden Horseshoe from the Midwestern Conference five years ago.

Caledonia won the season series versus the Canucks six games to none, 12 points to one.