The Gillespie's Tree Service U15 Red Devils continued their march through the playoffs this week with a pair of home contests.
The Central Ontario Wolves came to town on Wednesday night as the Red Devils looked to avenge their only playoff loss to date in this post season. Lauchlan Whelan got the ball rolling early in he game after some hard work and a nice feed off the boards from Cohen Stewart. Forty seconds later, Trent Clow entered the chat after forcing a turnover on a COW clearance attempt and working a nice give and go with Ewan Dahle to put the Red Devils up 2-0. The Wolves would get one back before the end of the first to head to the break down 1. Stewart would cash in a Whelan rebound early in the second to restore the two goal cushion for the Red Devils after Andrew Laurin got the sequence started with a nice breakout pass. The 3-1 score would hold through the break, but Clow would make it a 3 goal cushion early in the 3rd. Ewan Dahle bumped a puck out to Lawson Minife who slid it across for Clow to finish another 2 on 1. COW would get one back before Minifie would finish the game off after a clutch faceoff win by Clow and a great bank off the glass from Jack Sutton for a 5-2 QRD victory.
Sunday saw the back half of the home and home series with Whitby take place. After a scoreless first frame, the Wildcats got on the board first putting Quinte in a 1-0 hole. That score would hold through the end of the 2nd. Andrew Laurin got the squad back to even footing early in the 3rd after some great work by Jax Martin to keep the puck deep and set up the scoring chance. The Quinte offence kept the pressure up and finally broke through on the power play. Trent Clow took a Brechen Aird pass deep in his own end and did the rest to put QRD in front for good. Jax Martin added a long range empty net marker with just over a minute to play to seal the deal on a much needed 4 point week for the Devils. Nathan Ferriss was strong in the cage across both games for QRD. Their 6-1 record so far in the playoffs leaves them only needing two points in their next games to clinch a spot at the OMHA Championships in Kingston.
The close of the playoffs this week sees the gang travel to Kingston Thursday night and then host a pair of games this weekend against Markham on Saturday and York Simcoe on Sunday. Thursday's action gets underway at 7:30 on the Desjardins pad at the Invista Centre, available to all of our loyal fans on LiveBarn for those who can't make the trip. Saturday and Sunday's games will be held at the Wellness Centre with Saturday's contest slated for a 5:30 start on the CAA pad and Sunday's action set for a 2:15 puck drop on the Family Dental Centre sheet.