Jr. C Lakers One Win Away From Advancing to Next Round

By Scott Arnold

The Peterborough Jr. C Lakers are one win away from advancing after opening their first-round playoff series with back-to-back wins over the Huntsville Hawks.

The Jr C. lakers have a chance for the sweep on friday at 8pm at the pmc when they host the huntsville hawks for game 3 of their playoff series (photo via facebook @peterboroughjrclakers

Peterborough earned an 8-4 victory in Game 1 at the Healthy Planet Arena on Saturday before picking up an 8-7 road win in Game 2 on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series.

Braden Hockaday picked up the win in net in the opener, while Chase Brown earned the victory in Game 2.

The Lakers led 8-3 in the third period on Sunday before Huntsville scored four times to make things interesting. Kyson Campbell's goal with 5:52 remaining stood up as the game winner.

The series returns to the Peterborough Memorial Centre for Game 3 on Friday at 8 pm. A Lakers victory would send Peterborough to the second round.

Game 1 points: Ryder Perry (3G, 2A), Braxtin Howard (4A), Kennen Withers (2G), Patrick Curtain (1G, 1A), Hayden Heigh (1G, 1A), Charlie Evans (1G), Quinn Jacobs (1A), Bobby Crowe (1A), Kyson Campbell (1A), Jared Martinell (1A).

Game 2 points: Braxtin Howard (4G, 4A), Hayden Heigh (2G, 2A), Kyson Campbell (1G, 3A), Patrick Curtain (1A), Ricky Bevan (1A), Brady Higgs (2G, 2A), Damon Buttus (2G, 2A), Hunter Crawford (1G, 2A), Carson Frasier (1G, 2A), Jacob Barney (2A)

Scott Arnold is a Journalist and Content Creator at PTBOCanada Media Inc

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