Fratmen dominate, gain home-field advantage
The defending Ontario Football Conference Champion Windsor Ako Fratmen will be home for the first round of the playoffs. Windsor secured home-field advantage for the semifinals with a 40-10 road win on Saturday over the London Beefeaters as the teams closed out the regular season. “We are a better team today than we were in week 1 and I liked the way we competed,” Ako head coach Mike Lachance said. “I like how we physically controlled the game.” Windsor held London to just 87 yards in net offence while piling up nearly 400 yards offence itself. “Playing a team multiple times in a season, it becomes tough to contain your emotions, but we did a pretty good job with that,” said Lachance, whose team outscored the beefeaters 95-31 in two meetings in the regular season.
Ako running back nash prieur ran for 80 yards on 13 carries and scored twice while running back Branden Mccraney also had a touchdown run. Quarterbacks Daniel Mailloux and Colton Allen each threw for a touchdown to devon woods, who had eight catches for 119 yards and also pulled in a two-point convert along with Jared Hayes-williams. Defensive back Dante Fornasiero had the fratmen’s other touchdown with a 22-yard interception return for a score. Ako’s defence had four interceptions in the game and a fumble recovery. With the win, Ako finished the season at 6-2, second place behind Hamilton. London finished in third place at 5-3 and will return to Windsor on oct. 20 to face the Fratmen in a 7 p.m. semifinal game at Alumni Field.
FLYERS FALL
The Leamington Flyers dropped a 3-2 overtime decision on the road Saturday to the Strathroy Rockets in Western Conference play in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.
Adam Jeffery and Griffin Robinson scored goals for the flyers (4-2-1-2) while Goalie Zach Borgiel finished with 44 saves against the Rockets (2-7-0-0).
ADMIRALS SUNK
The Amherstburg Admirals were less than a minute from a shutout win over the first-place dresden kings in Bill Stobbs division player in the Provincial Junior Hockey League on Sunday
Max Clifford’s first-period goal stood for the Admirals (4-2-0-1) until the Kings (8-1-0-1) pulled the goalie for an extra attacker and tied it in the final minute of regulation and scored in overtime for the 2-1 win.
SHARKS DROPPED
The Wheatley Sharks lost 5-1 to the Mooretown Flags in Bill Stobbs Division Play in the Provincial Junior Hockey League on Saturday. Alixe Saliba opened the scoring for the Sharks (4-3-0-0), But the Flags (3-2-0-2) countered the game’s final five goals with four coming on the power play.
PATTILLO RETURNS
Forward Juan Pattillo has officially signed on for the 2018-19 season with the NBL of Canada’s Windsor Express.
The Express acquired Pattillo’s rights from the sudbury five last month in exchange for canadian forward Grand Glanze, who the express had acquired from the St. John’s Edge for guard Maurice Jones.
The 30-year-old Pattillo spent the 2016-17 season with the express and averaged 18.06 points per game and 10.65 rebounds per game in 34 games. the six-foot-six, 225-pound Pattillo started last season in Finland, but finished with the Moncton Magic, who traded his rights to Sudbury for a first-round pick.