The Scotia Bank Mitchell Meteors Bantam LL captured the Clinton Optimists Bantam Tournament Consolation Championship.
The Meteors opened the tournament Saturday
morning against the undefeated Aron-Elderslie Ice Dogs. Mitchell played very well and at controlled
the game in the Ice Dogs zone throughout, but they were only able to solve a
very good Aron Elderslie goalie twice, once by Dominic Voros from Brett Poirier
and once by Josh Duncan unassisted. The two
goals weren’t quite enough as the Ice Dogs managed to score 4 including an
empty netter with just 15 seconds remaining, to come away with the 4-2 victory.
The loss relegated the Meteors to the consolation bracket were they next faced the BCH Ice Dogs Saturday night. The Ice Dogs opened the scoring midway through the first on a penalty shot goal. The penalty shot was awarded to the Ice Dogs when a Meteor player put his glove on the puck in the goal crease during a scramble in the Mitchell zone. The game stayed 1-0 until late in the second when Kurtis DeJong scored for Mitchell with an assist to Will Steinbach. DeJong scored his second of the game, unassisted, early in the third to give the Meteors the lead. Just two minutes later the Ice Dogs evened the score. The Meteors kept coming thought and were rewarded at the six minute mark when Basil Voros scored the game winner of a nice feed from Josh Duncan. Joey Adam would put the game out of reach with two and half minutes left with an assist going to De Jong.
That win set up the Scotia Bank Mitchell Meteors Bantam LL to play the Goderich Sailors in the final. The two teams battled to a 0-0 tie until with just under 5 minutes to play the Meteors were finally able to solve the Goderich keeper on a goal by Braedon McLean assisted by Josh Duncan. Duncan put Mitchell up two a minute late with PJ Marshall and Kurtis DeJong getting the assists. Goderich narrowed the lead to one only 7 seconds later, but that was as close as they could get. Duncan scored his second of the game to put it away with 4 minutes left in the third with the assist going to Marshall. Wade Monden earned the win in net for the final and played well throughout the tournament.