Game 4, Sutherland Cup Championship Series
Chatham Maroons 5
St. Catharines Falcons 8
(best-of-7 series tied 2-2)
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Falcons jump out to early lead, hang on to tie series
The St. Catharines Falcons scored three goals in the first 10 minutes of the game and hung on the defeat the Chatham Maroons 8-5 in front of 725 fans at the Seymour-Hannah S.E.C. to tie the series at two games apiece.
VIDEO: Falcons take early 3-0 lead in Game 4
Goals from Trent Gates (5), Treyson Dewar (5) and Samuel Mudie (4) gave the Falcons (14-5) a 3-0 lead which turned out to be the difference in the game. Dallys Hibbert (5) and Ally Mostafaie (8) scored in the second period. Nathan Duplessis (10) , Cameron Lowe (8) and William Moore (3, empty-net) scored in the third period.
Hibbert’s goal was his first shorthanded goal in 109 career GOJHL games (regular season and playoffs).
Carter Chadwick scored his 11th and 12th goals of the playoffs for the Maroons (14-9). Ian Lachance (9), Dylan Richter (13), and Eamon Edgar (6) also scored for Chatham. Richter added 3 assists for his second straight 4-point game to take the GOJHL playoffs scoring lead with 31 points. Chadwick leads all GOJHL rookies in goals scored in the playoffs. Connor Hunt added three assists for Chatham.
The Falcons continued two series trends with the win; the team scoring first has won every game, and the winning team has scored 5 or more goals in all four games.
Falcons netminder Hayden Jeffery (W, 14-5) made 28 saves. Gannon Hunter started in net for the Maroons and stopped 9 of 12 shots faced. He was replaced after the third Falcons goal by Samuel DiBlasi (L, 0-1) who made made 17 saves, including a penalty shot attempt by Lowe in the second period.
VIDEO: Post-game comments from Falcons head coach Tyler Bielby
VIDEO: Post-game comments from Maroons GM/head coach Richard Santos
The 13 combined goals by the two teams are the most in a Sutherland Cup final game since the Waterloo Siskins defeated the London Nationals 9-4 in Game 1 of the 2019 final. Ironically, the 8 goals surrendered by the Maroons are the most they’ve allowed in a playoff game since an 8-2 loss to the Falcons in Game 2 of the 2022 Sutherland Cup final.
The Falcons improved their home record in the playoffs to 8-2, while the Maroons fell to 5-6 on the road.
The goal by Mudie was the Falcons’ first power play goal of the series, snapping a 0-for-9 streak with the man advantage. The Falcons finished 1/7 on the power play and are 1/15 (6.7%) in the series.
The Maroons were 3/7 with the man advantage — their second straight game with 3 PP goals — and are 7/18 (38.9%) in the series.
Game 5 will take place Friday night at Memorial Arena in Chatham. Game time is 7:30pm.
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