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Jr. B Hockey Wrap Up - February 25, 2017

Two scoring spurts gave the Leamington Flyers an easy 8-3 win over the Lambton Shores Predators Saturday night at the Shores Recreation Centre.

It was the final regular season game for the Flyers and the season finale for the Predators, who finished last in the GOJHL Western Conference with 21 points.

The Flyers got off to an easy three-goal lead in the first period. Thomas Virban got the first goal at 8:46 in the opening period. This was followed before the intermission by Broden Meloche and Brett Vorshuk. Josh Pope-Ferguson assisted on two of those goals.

Leamington followed up that opening period with four more unanswered goals. Nicolas Mainella made the score 4-0 Flyers at 1:33 into the period. Vorshuk followed three minutes later with his second goal of the game, and the remaining scoring came from Zac Parlette and Zach Guilbeault. The Predators avoided the goose egg when Kyle Fisher scored. The second period ended with a 7-1 Flyers lead.

Lambton Shores got two goals in the third period from Jake Desando and Cale Markham to trim the Leamington lead to 7-3.  Cale Phibbs scored one more for the Flyers before the end of regulation.

Connor Meyerink took the win in goal for Leamington, getting 24 saves.  Tynan Lauziere had 30 saves for the Predators in the loss.

The Flyers finish fourth in the conference and will take on the Sarnia Legionnaires in the first round of the Junior B playoffs.  Game 1 is Thursday in Leamington.

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Trevor Bogaert scored twice as the Sarnia Legionnaires beat the Rockets 5-2 Sunday night in Strathroy.

It was the regular season finale for both teams.  Strathroy, finishing eighth in the Western Conference, will take on the LaSalle Vipers in the first round.  The matchups will be finalized after all games are completed Sunday.

The Legionnaires broke the scoreless tie with a goal from Bogaert. Joel Pavey put the puck in at 7:20 in the first period to double the Sarnia lead, and Jake Vince added another score to give the Legionnaires a 3-0 lead after one frame.

The Rockets got two goals back in the second period. Max Ewart got Strathroy on the board at 21 seconds into the stanza. Ty Glover got a power play score later in the period. The Legionnaires got one of those goals back before the end of the period, off the stick of Curtis Egert.

Bogaert scored the lone goal in the third period, his second of the game.

Travis Moore was the winner in the crease for Sarnia with 29 saves out of 31 shots faced.  Carson Poulin stopped 35 out of 40 Legionnaires shots in goal for Strathroy.

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