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LANTZ:<\/strong> Three goals in each period carried the East Hants Senior Penguins to a convincing 9-1 victory and four game sweep of the Pictou County Pipers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pens now advance to the Northumberland division championship series after the four game wins, which included 4-3 in Pictou County on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Game four was played before a loud crowd at the Keith Miller Arena in the East Hants Sportsplex in Lantz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

East Hants will play the winner of the Truro-Antigonish series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Sunday, Garrett Holmes scored twice and chipped in with two helpers to lead the offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Single goals came off the sticks of Cedric Ralph; Regan Spears; Ty Hunter; Alex Roode; Tyler Noseworthy; Zack Speck-Meek; and Andrew Shewfelt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributing assists were Ralph, Noseworthy, Spears, Taylor Burke, and Connor Baker, all with two apiece on top of Holmes’ pair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Single helpers were recorded by Hunter, Shewfelt, Roode, Ryan Daley, and Connor Rogers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan Gillis earned the goaltending victory between the pipes stopping 26 of 27 shots sent his way in the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The night before in Pictou County, Alex Roode scored the game winner with 6:54 left in regulation as the Pens erased a 3-1 deficit for the victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan Gillis stopped 33 of 36 pucks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Burke and Andrew Shewfelt each had two assists in the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

East Hants will now get a short break until the winner in the Bulldogs-Bearcats series is determined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That series is 3-1 for Truro with game five on Tuesday night at Colchester Legion Stadium at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LANTZ: Three goals in each period carried the East Hants Senior Penguins to a convincing 9-1 victory and four game sweep of the Pictou County Pipers. The Pens now advance to the Northumberland division championship series after the four game wins, which included 4-3 in Pictou County on Saturday night. Game four was played before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[9424,10500,9620,10501,50,595,9427,9522,923,10502,107],"class_list":["post-62889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bryan-gillis","tag-cedric-ralph","tag-east-hants-senior-penguins","tag-garrett-holmes","tag-halifax","tag-lantz","tag-n-s-senior-hockey-league","tag-nsshl","tag-pictou-county","tag-sr-penguins","tag-truro-bearcats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62889","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=62889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}