Kilty B’s rise with win over Meteors

Living up to their name as well as the pre-game buzz, the Hamilton Kilty B’s stung early and often Monday night.

They outshot the visiting Fort Erie Meteors 58-35 on their way to a 6-3 victory in Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League action at Dave Andreychuk Mountain Arena.

The rebranded and relocated Ancaster Avalanche snapped a two-game losing streak, improved to 3-0 in head-to-head play versus Fort Erie and overtook the idle Pelham Panthers to move back into third place in the Golden Horseshoe Conference.

Hamilton, 14-6, leads Pelham, 13-8-0-1, by one point in the eightteam junior B loop and has two games in hand on the Panthers.

Anthony Pinelli, with two goals, Jacob Maillet, Derek Raposo, Mason Reeves andHolden Rogers scored for Hamilton.

Evan Miller, with two, along with Luca Marcellitti replied for the Meteors.

Seventh-place Fort Erie lost its fifth in a row to fall to 4-15-0-1.

The B’s went 1-for-9 with the man advantage, while the the Meteors went 1-for-4.

Since the game was played in Hamilton, the teams were unable to take care of business of that has remained unfinished since Oct. 20.

That’s when a widespread power outage in Fort Erie

plunged the Leisureplex into darkness and left the Meteors with a 1-0 lead with four seconds in remaining in regulation.

Action will resume and the interrupted game will be completed with a faceoff at the Hamilton end of the ice when the QEW rivalry resumes 7:15 p.m. Saturday in Fort Erie.

Next action for the Meteors is 7:07 p.m. Thursday at the Thorold Blackhawks, 7-11-1.

Two games are on Friday’s Golden Horseshoe schedule: Pelham at Niagara Falls Canucks, 18-2-0-1; Welland Jr. Canadians, 5-14-0-1, at St. Catharines Falcons, 15-3-0-1; both are 7 p.m. starts at Gale Centre and Jack Gatecliff Arena, respectively.