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Cougars Win and Tie with Barons

   
Captain Derek Gentile opened the scoring on the PP for the Cougars on a top shelf shot that beat Barons goalie Brendan Hirtle over the shoulder.  Leon Denny and Logan Struthers assisted.  Struthers gave the home team a 2 goal lead with a huge shot from the point, Gentile assisted.  Kyle Sexton got the Bedford team on the board on a rebound that eluded Kaine Drake in the Cougars net.  AJ Allain had the helper.  Logan O'Neil gave the Cougars a 3-1 lead on a breakaway.  His goal was from Owen Higgins and Connor Campbell.

Sexton scored 2 in the 3rd to tie the game, Keenan MacIssiac and Allain assisting.  Kaine Drake made several sensational saves for the Cougars including a huge blocker save, on a Barons 3 on 1 rush late to preserve the point.  He had 25 stops in total.    Hirtle made 13 saves.

On Sunday Colton Marchand scored from Gentile to give the home team an early lead.  O'Neil followed shortly after from Dylan Pimentel to give the Cougars a 2 goal lead.  Morgan Robinson would bury a goal on the PP from MacIssiac to get Bedford on the scoreboard.  Sexton then added his 4th of the weekend from Brett Thorne.  

Marchand would put on the heroes cap for the Cougars with the game winner in the 3rd.

Cody Smith was spectacular making 20 saves, including a highlight reel save late in the game.  Lukasz Kolanko suffered the loss making 14 saves.

The 3 point weekend was huge for the Cougars following 2 losses at the hands of Bubba Rays Gulls.  Gulls took game 1 3-1, Shane Bowers had 2 goals and an assist for the goals while Liam Stagg had a single on the PP.Jake Sampson, Jack Cameron and David Worth each had single assists.   Derek Gentile had the lone goal for the Cape Breton club.  Kaine Drake had 16 saves in a losing effort while Kirklin Allan had 18 for the Gulls.   In the second game Worth, from Jacob Power and Bradley Shaw would open the scoring with Bowers adding an insurance marker from Cameron and Stagg.  It was to be the only goals in the game as the Cougars were blanked.  Allan made 27 stops for the shut out and Cody Smith had 26 saves.