High school hockey weekend update

with 2:27 remaining. Yarmouth had a breakaway with around 10 seconds left in the game but was unable to connect with the back of the net for the tie to force overtime.

The Par-en-Bas Sharks were in Bridgewater Saturday for their 8-7 win.

Leading the scoring was Dominic Surette with 5 goals, his last two coming in the final 36 seconds of the game. Also scoring for PEB were Josh Boudreau, Jacques LeBlanc and Riley Babin.

The two teams were tied 2-2 after the first period with PEB jumping out to a 5-3 lead by the end of the second. Bridgewater rallied to score four goals in the third period, their last with 55 seconds left in the game putting them up 7-6, however the Sharks answered with those two goals in the last 36 seconds.

The Barrington Barons played NKEC on Sunday afternoon, after this newspaper’s press deadline.

On Saturday night Yarmouth, in a rebuilding year after losing 12 players from last season, was shut out 8-0 by NKEC in Canning.

This Wednesday Barrington hosts Yarmouth at 7:30 p.m. Yarmouth travels to Lunenburg Saturday to play Park View.

The Barrington Barons host Bridgewater on Sunday for a 2:30 p.m. game.

Digby and Yarmouth meet up again Sunday at 1 p.m. in Digby.

Par-en-Bas has no weekend games.

The annual Chicks with Sticks tournament goes Friday to Sunday in Yarmouth this week with 16 teams taking part.

Yarmouth has three teams competing: the Western Riptide White teams in the atom and peewee divisions and a team in the midget division.

The local atom team plays round-robin games at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Saturday. The peewee team plays at 11:30 and 5:15 p.m. on Friday and 9:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. on Saturday. The midgets play at 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Yarmouth’s midget team is a pullout team as the local minor hockey association was unable to secure enough players for a season team. Midget girls hockey has seen a decrease in numbers in western Nova Scotia. Whereas last year there were four teams, this year there is just one.

Overall, there are four atom, seven peewee, three bantam and two midget teams taking part in the tournament.

Opening ceremonies are Saturday at 2 p.m. with the medal games on Sunday. The Atom championship gold medal game is at 10 a.m., peewee’s at 11:30 a.m., bantam’s at 1 p.m. and the midget final is at 2:30 p.m.

Admission to the tournament is free.