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Sunday, March 22nd Ste. Anne arena was the place to be, as the Eastman City Selects hosted the Monarchs in Game #3 of their best of five series that was tied at a game apiece. Selects not only won the game, but won all three periods, moving into a 2 games to 1 lead in the series with a decisive 8 - 2 win. I have to admit that this will be one of my briefer write-ups (some of you will be glad of that) since I was busy enjoying my new noisemaker of choice - - a drum!! Wow, is that thing fun!! First period the Selects actually were "outshot" at the net, with the Monarchs goalie seeing rubber 9 times, but Brendan Edie getting tested 14 times. A pair of coincidental penalties at 11:17, and another two minute minor for Monarchs at 5:57, and that was the extent of the penalties in this period. Highlight of the period was the opening goal, scored for Eastman at 1:18 by Hudson Friesen with a shot from the blue line, assisted by Brent Wold and Kyle Groinus. Second period saw shots on net for Eastman go up to 18 and Monarchs dropped to 11 on Edie. Penalties became a factor in this period, as each team gave up some power-play opportunities. However, it was the Selects who were able to capitalize on this, scoring two power-play goals this period. Scoring for this period was as follows: 16:52 - Eastman on a PP - Brent Wold, assisted by Yvan Pattyn and Brad Kutzak 7:19 - Eastman - Erik Pushka received a nice pass from Tyler McGurry in the neutral zone. He took his time, looking around for the perfect pass, and sent the puck to Tyson Stoesz who was skating in down the other side of the slot. Stoesz neatly deflected the puck into the back of the net. 3:51 - Monarchs scored 1:51 - Eastman on a PP - Brent Wold, assisted by Brad Kutzak and Yvan Pattyn :40 - Monarchs scored - - Second period ended with a score of 4 - 2 for the Selects Third period - Monarchs take an early penalty (a 2 minute minor and a checking from behind game expulsion) at 16:02 and the Selects took full advantage of this to add to their already leading score. Yvan Pattyn got the power-play goal with a beautiful bullet from the point, assisted by Kody Kennedy and Dylan Reimer. 14:26 - Eastman scores - Kyle Groinus, assisted by Wold and Shane Froese 14:20 - Eastman gives up a power-play chance to the Monarchs, by taking a two minute tripping penalty - - but are successful in killing it off. I belive it is somewhere in here that the Monarchs switched goalies, giving Zach Morris what I understand to be his first break since their play-off run began. 8:25 - Russell Trudeau snipes in goal number 7 for the Selects, assisted by Froese and Falk 6:32 - Eastman finishes off their scoring for the night, with a pass from Tyson Stoesz to Travis Dreger at the blue ine. Dreger takes a shot and it defelects off Dylan Reimer for goal # 8 for the Selects. A few late penalties finished off the period: 1:44 a 4 minute penalty to the Monarchs for butt-ending 0:48 seconds a 2 minute to the Monarchs for interference :04 seconds a 2 minute to Eastman for boarding. Shots on net for the last period were 18 for and 8 against. Once again the Selects outshot the Monarchs 45 to 32 Momentum is on our side in this series at the moment, but the Monarchs can not be taken for granted. They are in a "do or die" situation for the next game and you can bet they will come out hungry for that puck. Selects will have to be just as hungry and play just as well as they did tonight if they hope to finish this series off on Monday evening! Next game is Monday, March 23rd at Notre Dame Arena at 7:30 p.m.  Come on out and CHEER CHEER CHEER!!!  Come and share in the excitement of this City Championship Series |
