| Mar 20, 2019


The Frontenac Flyers Pee Wee rep team is in the driver’s seat in their Ontario Hockey League final series against the Ilderton Jets following identical 4-1 victories at the Frontenac Community Arena Saturday and Sunday.

“It’s definitely great to have a lead heading up to Ilderton,” said Flyers coach Al Pixley. “And only needing one more win is a big one.”

In the OMHA Playdown format, six points are needed to win a series, which heads to Ilderton March 23 and 24. If a fifth game is necessary (because of ties) it would be played March 30 in Ilderton and in the unlikely event of a sixth game being necessary, it would shift back to Frontenac March 31.

Pixley said he’s unlikely to change anything for this weekend’s matchup.

“You don’t fix what ain’t broke,” he said. “We’ve been moving the puck well and we’ll continue to do that.”

Sunday’s game was actually closer in game play than the score might suggest. The first period was scoreless with plenty of back and forth.

Kaleb Baldwin opened the scoring with 12:37 left in the second. Vann Thomas got his first of two goals on the night in the dying seconds of the period followed Jack Pixley shortly thereafter.

But it could have just as easily gone the other way but for the play of Flyers goalie Severing Steele and his defensive corps.

Steele managed to keep the biscuit out of the basket on three goal-mouth scrambles and turn aside three one-on-nones. The Flyers managed to get the puck out of the zone quickly each time.

“He (Steele) definitely kept us in there during that second period,” Pixley said. “It was very important to maintain momentum.

Beau Reade, Jack Pixley, Mason Joynt and Kaleb Baldwin scored for Frontenac in Saturday’s game.

On the Atom side, things didn’t go so rosily as the Flyers fell 5-1 Sunday after going down 6-4 Saturday.

“That certainly didn’t go as we’d hoped,” said coach Jamie Craig. “We have to come and play three periods.

“I just hope that when we get on the road, they come to life.

“There have been a lot of people at these last two games and maybe in Ilderton’s building, things will be different.

“But we’ve still got lots left in the tank.”

Rhett Colson scored Frontenac’s lone goal Sunday. Saturday’s scorers were unavailable.

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