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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> The Bedford Basin Armada are U-16 AAA league champions, thanks to key contributions from four Fall River area players, including their star goaltender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Armada defeated Saint John Knights 3-0 in the final at the RBC Centre in Dartmouth over the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Armada were third in the league championship playoff with a 2-1-1 (won-loss-tied) record in four games played during round robin play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the playoffs they were 2-0 to win the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the first game of the league championship, they defeated the Voyageurs HC 5-2 led by a hat trick from Noah MacCallum-Stokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Single tallies came from Schafer Gibbs and Luc Pineau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Payson Stewart stopped 31 of 33 shots he faced for the victory in goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Armada fired 24 shots on the Voyageurs net, who pressured in the third outshooting the winners 12-4 in the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”93″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the championship final, it was Stewart who stole the show stopping all 24 shots directed at him as the Armada used special teams and hard work to pick up the 3-0 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sam Cowan on the power play was credited with what would be the eventual game winner in the first period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schafer Gibbs, with a shorthanded tally, and Wellington\u2019s Rylan Millett with a third period power-play goal also scored for the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stewart, from Fall River, had a stellar 6-0-1 Record; with a .928 save percentage and 1.64 goals against average to be named Playoff MVP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Millett, Stewart, Andrew Sinclair of Fall River, and affiliate player goalie Ryan Donovan are the local players on the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alex Feltmate of Fall River is head coach, and Daniel MacKenzie, also from Fall River, is Assistant GM\/Equipment Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”194″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”188″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”84″] [adrotate banner=”78″] FALL RIVER: The Bedford Basin Armada are U-16 AAA league champions, thanks to key contributions from four Fall River area players, including their star goaltender. The Armada defeated Saint John Knights 3-0 in the final at the RBC Centre in Dartmouth over the Easter weekend. The Armada were third in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3529,2,48,4825,4826],"class_list":["post-35395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-basin-armada","tag-fall-river","tag-n-s","tag-ns-u16-aaa-hockey-league","tag-payson-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}