The North Shore Winter Club got three third period goals to score an exciting 4-2 win over the Burnaby Winter Club in the championship final of the Bantam Tier 1 provincial hockey championships Thursday in Prince George.
The North Shore squad held a huge advantage in shots in the final but the score was tied at two in the dying minutes. Assistant captain Justin Almeida finally made the breakthrough with 2:20 left in the game. Captain Jordan Bellerive salted the win away with an empty netter, his second goal of the final.
The Winterhawk’s Brett Stapley opened the scoring in the first period while goaltender Dorrin Luding made 14 saves to get the win. The Winter Club boys will now move on to the Western Bantam Championships scheduled for April 3-6 in Kelowna.
