The Basin Armada nipped rivals Kings Hockey Club, who has players from Fall River and East Hants on their roster, in the championship final on Sunday afternoon to taste gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earning that bite into their gold medals were Nate Boudreau; Alex Damczyk, goalie Payson Stewart; Trent Peveril; and Liam Conlon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daniel MacKenzie is the equipment manager\/assistant manager for the Armada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the final, it was Noah Maccallum-Stokes scoring the game winner in overtime on a pass by Windsor Junction\u2019s Conlon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris Brill on the power-play had the other tally for the Armada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Espen Simensen and Samuel Cowan picked up assists on Brill\u2019s goal to tie the game at 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dylen Probert had the Kings goal to open the game scoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armada goalie Dylan Benautio picked up the goaltending win, while it was Nate Beaton who suffered the loss in goal. Both goalies made game-saving stops that allowed the game to be as close as it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the semi-final, Basin Armada tripped up the Thunder 3-2 on a game winner from Liam Conlon at 10:22 of the third period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jaxson Prior and Nathan Turple had the other goals for the Bedford-based squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conlon, Sam Cowan, Damczyk, Prior, Henrik Gerard, and Carson MacDonald picked up the assists for the Armada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Payson Stewart earned the win in net coming up with big saves to give his team the shot to win and advance to the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Kings punched their ticket to the final with a 3-2 win over the undefeated Moncton Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joel Verge; Theo Stapleton; and Braden Martin with the winner had the goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chace Munden; Jackson Orchard, who setup Martin\u2019s winner; Nic MacIntyre; and Josh Hollett had assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nolan McLauchlan had the win in net giving his team the final berth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n During regular season play the Armada are in second place and the Kings are in fifth, so making it to the final showed great improvement for the Kings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It truly showed how close the league is and any team winning on any given day no matter the opponent is possible and created exciting game atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other games for the Armada defeated the Western Rebels in the quarter-final 7-1; edged the Rebels in their final round-robin game on a Conlon game winner 2-1; blanked the NL Osprey 15-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Armada started the tournament with a 4-2 loss to the Wildcats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Basin\u2019s Jaxson Prior was a first team all-star forward while Payson Stewart was named first team all-star goalie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nic MacIntyre from the Kings was named to the first all star squad, while defenceman Donovan Jay was named to the second all star team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”169″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”78″] FALL RIVER: Five players from the Fall River area and one staff member have earned the crown as Cleve\u2019s Source for Sports East Coast ice Jam champions for the Under-16 division. 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