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LANTZ: <\/strong>The East Hants Senior Penguins rallied back from a 2-0 deficit, but fell short in a shootout to rival Truro Bearcats on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League game was played at the Keith Miller Arena in the East Hants Sportsplex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A large crowd was on hand to see the two storied rivals meetup yet again in NSSHL play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truro led 2-0 until the dying minutes of the third period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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East Hants scored twice within a 1:01 span to even the game and force overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regan Spears at 4:11 and Andrew Shewfelt with 3:10 left in the final stanza had the tallies for the Pens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Burke had two helpers, while single assists went to Cam Pound and Will Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both goalies put on a great performance in net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truro’s Colby Lanceleve of Stewiacke had the shootout winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Welsh earned the goaltending win stopping 53 of 55 shots sent his way while Jett Miller turned away 29 of 31 shots he saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pens are back in action at home on Dec. 12 when they face the Antigonish Bulldogs in a 7:30 p.m. start. They travel to Pictou for a game on Dec. 13 against the Pipers at Hector Arena at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n

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LANTZ: The East Hants Senior Penguins rallied back from a 2-0 deficit, but fell short in a shootout to rival Truro Bearcats on Saturday night. The Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League game was played at the Keith Miller Arena in the East Hants Sportsplex. A large crowd was on hand to see the two storied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[9876,9620,677,9877,595,9522,9784,107],"class_list":["post-60849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-andrew-shewfelt","tag-east-hants-senior-penguins","tag-east-hants-sportsplex","tag-jett-miller","tag-lantz","tag-nsshl","tag-regan-spears","tag-truro-bearcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60849","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=60849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}