{"id":63391,"date":"2026-03-27T22:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=63391"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:10:23","slug":"three-goal-first-powers-senior-penguins-to-game-three-victory-over-bearcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=63391","title":{"rendered":"Three goal first powers Senior Penguins to game three victory over Bearcats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LANTZ: <\/strong>The real East Hants Senior Penguins showed up on Friday night in force to cut the Truro Bearcats best-of-seven Hollingsworth Cup series lead in half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

East Hants scored three times in the first, and two in each the middle and third stanza’s to earn the convincing 7-2 victory over their arch rival Truro before a full house at the Keith Miller Arena in the East Hants Sportsplex in Lantz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Penguins had multi point games int he win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Game four is set for Sunday at Colchester Legion Stadium in Truro. The Bearcats lead 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puck drop is set for 5:30 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Game five is back in Lantz at the Igloo on Tuesday night at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Against Truro on Friday, Will Thompson and Jimmy Scullion each had a goal and two helpers for the victors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other markers came from Tyler Noseworthy; Andrew Shewfelt; Ty Hunter; Cam Pound; and Riley Spears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assists went to Jordan Wentzell with two, while singles were credited to Noseworthy; Regan Spears; and Brett Armstrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goalie Bryan Gillis turned away 25 of 27 pucks he faced to get the Penguins first W in the Hollingsworth Cup championship final. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Welsh surrendered seven goals on 33 shots in the loss in the Bearcats net.<\/p>\n\n\n

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An East Hants Senior Penguin raises his stick in the air after scoring on Truro. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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LANTZ: The real East Hants Senior Penguins showed up on Friday night in force to cut the Truro Bearcats best-of-seven Hollingsworth Cup series lead in half. East Hants scored three times in the first, and two in each the middle and third stanza’s to earn the convincing 7-2 victory over their arch rival Truro before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[196,9620,10619,595,9559,10462,396,107,10652],"class_list":["post-63391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-senior-penguins","tag-hollingsworth-cup","tag-lantz","tag-n-s-senior-hockey","tag-riley-spears","tag-truro","tag-truro-bearcats","tag-will-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63391","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=63391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}