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Cougars Win Twice on Weekend

   
 A huge crowd attended the Breton Sport & Trophy Cougars annual "Pink In The Rink" night for breast cancer awareness.  The team wore pink laces and used pink stick tape, as well as having a pink ribbon sewn onto their jerseys for the game.  Breast cancer survivor Carolyn Brown and her grandson, Nathan MacKinnon, who recently  underwent a kidney transplant dropped the puck for this game.  Also, the Northside Atom Girls team sang O Canada and scrimmaged between the second and third periods to celebrate World Girls' Ice Hockey Weekend.

Logan O'Neil had a big night with 2 goals and 3 assists, Dylan Morley had 1 goal and 3 assists, Mitchell Balmas had 2 goals, while Dan Reid and Dylan Pimentel added single markers.  Brenden Dauphinee had 2 assists and Hunter Bettens had 1 helper.  The Wildcats goals were scored by Cody Burghardt with 2 and Anthony Corradini.  Levi Denny made 16 stops including a spectacular glove save in the second to keep the momentum in the home teams favor. Kate Spooner had 16 stops for the Valley.  Final score was 7-3

Both teams went back and forth on Sundays game, before cougars scored 3 in the third to defeat a hard working Wildcats team 7-3. Derek Gentile had 2 goals and 2 assists for the Cougars.  Veteran players Balmas and Dauphinee each had 1 goal and 2 helpers. O'Neil added a goal and an assist for a 7 point weekend.  Morley and Brady Buchanan rounded out the scoring.  Brandon Farrell had 2 assists.   Cole Rafuse, Drake Batherson, and Cody Burghardt replied for the visitors.  Liam MacDonald made 15 saves for the win and Paul Janes made 21 stops for the Wildcats.

Cougars next game is on the road vs Bedford Barons on October 20.