SIX NATIONS — The Jr. A Arrows lead the Mimico Mountaineers 2-0 in the OJALL best-of-five series playoffs after winning Game 1, 9-3 last Thursday at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena (ILA), and 15-3, Friday August 4.
The Arrows pick it up again Wednesday, Aug. 9, at the ILA, at 8 p.m. when they hope to sweep the Mountaineers for the Jr. A Ontario championship and a trip back to the Minto Cup.
Friday night in Mimico, the Arrows left no doubt of their intentions in their lop-sided win.
Austin Staats and Tehoka Nanticoke scored two goals each in the first period to take a 4-0 lead by the halfway point in the period. Alec Simons scored a powerplay goal for Mimico to end the first period 4-1. They would not beat Doug Jamieson again until 17:54 of the third period.
In between, there was a quiver full of Arrows goals beginning at 1:46 of the second frame by Holden Garlent, Travis Longboat, Percy Booth, Kesler Doolittle, and two by Austin Staats, ending the second period, with Six Nations leading 10-1.
Staats made it 11-1 early in the third with his third of the game. Garlent scored his second, Cody Ward made it 12-1 and Blake Macdonald made it a baker’s dozen, at 13-1.
With the contest well out of reach for the Mountaineers, they added two late game tallies both on powerplays, before Travis Longboat brought the curtains down at 18:53, to end it, 15-3.
The series opened last Thursday night at the ILA the Arrows won it 9-3 lead by Austin Staats’ four goals and two assists.
Cory Highfield scored the only goal of the first period at 8:11 assisted by Russ Oaks and Tehoka Nanticoke. Mimico’s Jonathan Donville tied the game with a powerplay goal at 1:02 of the second before Staats took the lead back at 4:54.
The Mountaineers kept pace at 8:55 with Adrian Tokok-Orban’s game tier. Only 13 seconds later, Staats netted a beauty from Travis Longboat, followed by Arrows goals by Russ Oaks and Cody Ward.
Three more Arrows hit their mark in the first half of the third, two by Staats and one by Garlent.
The score was 8-2 when Josh Toguri added Mimico’s third of the night which Nanticoke erased seconds later for the 9-3 final score.
The Mountaineers have one huge mountain to climb if they have any hope to get past the Arrows. But in anything can happen in the playoff, as the Jr. B Rebels found out.
