Playoff Series
Petrolia Squires vs Monkton Wildcats

March 6, 2009

The Petrolia Squires have taken a 2 - 1 lead in the best of seven series against the Monkton Wildcats with a 5 - 2 win in Petrolia Friday night.
 

Darryl Foster, Mike Henry (League Chairman), Steve Bryce
missing Justin Day

Before the game and in front of the home town crowd a special presentation was made to the Petrolia Squires Goaltenders by league Hockey Chairman Mike Henry.  The Squires earned the WOAA Sr Hockey Leauge Award for best goals against with a record of 51 goals in 20 games. Earning the award were Darryl Foster, Steve Bryce and Justin Day.

Photos by Pat Brethauer

In the first period Lee Cole fired a pair past netminder Andrew Daub to take a 2 - 0 lead after the first period.
Both goals were both scored on powerplays with Jason Polera and Craig LaFramboise assisting on the first
at 3:34 and and Polera and Scott Hull on the second at 12:45.

Second period action saw Petrolia Kyle Hills score goal 3 from Mike Gardner and Steve Barraclough at 3:30.
Monkton came back to narrow the gap to 3 - 2 scoring the next 2 goals the first at 14:20 by Steeve Valois from Matt May and Geoff Fullerton and the 2nd goal with just :03 seconds remaining in the period on the  powerplay Matt May scored from Geoff Fullerton and Steeve Valois.

In period three two powerplay goals would secure the win with the first at 8:47 by Kyle Gould from James Edgar and Lee Cole and the final goal at 16:30 by Scott Hull from Jason Polera and Craig LaFramboise.

Andrew Daub made a total of 33 save in net for Monkton and for the win was Darryl Foster with 19 saves.

The two teams meet again tonight (Mar 7) in Monkton at 8:30 pm for game 4 and are back at home for game 5 on Friday March 13 at 8:00 pm.