Caledonia Corvairs in the driver’s seat

In Detroit, the last Corvair rolled off the assembly line in 1969.

In the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League, they’re still rolling along — more often than not, in victory lane.

Make that a lot more often. Adam Craievich and Bailey Fletcher each scored two goals in an 8-2 defeat of the Pelham Panthers Saturday night helping lead the Caledonia Corvairs to their 10th win in a row and 13th in 14 games.

Bobby Harrison, T.J. Hughes, Jamey Lauzon and Sean O’Brien rounded out the scoring for the Corvairs, who outshot the visiting Panthers 48-29.

Peter Izzo and Noah Caperchione replied for Pelham which lost its third straight.

Each team excelled on the penalty kill with Caledonia going 0-for5 on the power play and Pelham 0-for-7.

The Corvairs improved to 3-0 versus the Panthers in head-to-head play and to 25-3-0-1 overall, best in the Golden Horseshoe Conference and tops in the 26-team junior B league.

Pelham fell to 9-18-1-2.

Avalanche 4, Falcons 1

At Ancaster, second-place St. Catharines lost ground in the race to finish the regular season atop the conference falling to the Avalanche to wrap a home-and-home series.

Fourth-place Ancaster, 20-7-10, moved to within a point of the Niagara Falls Canucks, 20-8-0-2 thanks to power-play goals from Dirk Stadig and Liam Van Loon, an even-strength marker from Nicholas Breault and an empty-net goal from Benjamin Hatanaka.

Zach Lawrence’s power-play goal was all the offence the Falcons could muster as they dropped to 20-6-1-1 one night after playing the Avalanche to a 1-1 tie in double overtime at Jack Gatecliff Arena in St. Catharines.

Ancaster outshot St. Catharines 39-27 and went 2-for-7 on the power play. The Falcons finished the game 1-for-4 with a man advantage.

Canucks 3, Meteors 0

At Fort Erie, Zach Moore made 17 saves for his third shutout of the season, and Niagara Falls took a 4-0 lead in this season’s Battle of the Niagara Parkway.

Matt Baumann, Michael Arch and Noah Boman each scored a goal as the Canucks returned to the win column after dropping a 9-2 decision to the visiting Caledonia Corvairs the night before.

Niagara Falls outshot Fort Erie 37-17, and both teams finished the game 0-for-3 in the power play.

The loss was the Meteors’ third in a row, dropping their record to 8-17-1-3.

Blackhawks 4, Regals 0

At Thorold, Anthony Tremonte turned aside 40 shots for the first shutout of his junior B career, and the Blackhawks blanked the Buffalo to leapfrog over the idle Welland Jr. Canadians to take over fifth place. Snow may have been in the forecast but it rained rubber inside Thorold Community Arena as the ’Hawks outshot the Regals 72-40.

Brendan Charlton, on the power play; Griffen Fox, Devon Thibodeau and Jacob Mastrangelo found the back of the net as Thorold improved to 11-12-3-2 with its second win in a row.

Cellar-dwelling Buffalo fell to 1-26-0-3.

Two games are on Sunday’s Golden Horseshoe schedule: Thorold at Pelham, 3 p.m.,; and Buffalo at Welland, 7:05 p.m. The Blackhawks, whose owner-head coach Scott Barnes coached the Panthers last season, are 2-0 versus Pelham in head-to-head play. The Jr. Canadians, 11-15-3-1; lead the season series with the Regals three wins to none.