YS Playoff Finals Stouffville Peewee AE Clipper Champs Make good in Game 4 OT, News (Whitchurch Stouffville Minor Hockey Association)

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YS Playoff Finals Stouffville Peewee AE Clipper Champs Make good in Game 4 OT
The Peewee's brought the YS final round to conclusion in OT of game 4, scoring the extra point early to make it 2-1, and bring down the hometown crowd.  The series will go down in the history books with big time memories, stranger than the weather these days.

With a sudden start at the end of March Break, Pacheco diagnosed with pneumonia and Nowaskey a thousand miles away with no flight options on the busiest day of the year for Pearson, Charlie Berry put on the pads for game 1.  Berry had one 'training' session from expert sis, Jessica, and was rated as "Good to Go" in a once in a lifetime opportunity to face down the end of the Barrie Blue gun barrels.



The team hung back, playing a conservative game, with Charlie coming up with some big saves... but the score inched up to 2-0 for the Blue.  With nothing to lose, the forwards took a more offensive game to the Barrie net, and managed to tie it up before the end of the third, forcing OT.  As if the Berry's needed MORE time biting nails, the Clippers went into overtime mode, and pushed the score to 3-2 for a game one miracle win!  The home town crowd chanted CHARLIE CHARLIE CHARLIE as the teammates buried him under the pile of hugs.  Things seemed to be in Clipper favour, with Nowaskey heading back from the southern climes and game 2 set for the next night in Barrie. 

But the flight gods were not in our favour, and emails captioned "Charlie - PART II" started flying.  By puck drop, Charlie was in the pads again, this time in black.  Again, Charlie managed to keep the team in the game, but Barrie had the wind at their back and the desire to get back 2 points.  The game once again decided in a one point difference, this time 2-1 for Barrie Blue.

Luckily for the Clippers, both Ethan and Adrian were back on the ice and ready for game three at home.  This time mother nature won, bringing on an ice storm that pelted Barrie and the 905 pretty heavily.  No game 3 meant that Clippers would have to take the game to Allandale on Saturday March 27th.  Pacheco donned the pads, and we all sat riveted to the play.  The Clippers went up this time, and seemed to have the advantage, but never quite the comfortable sure win feeling.  Sure enough Barrie finally penetrated the play and put one past the netminder buoying the Barrie crowd and generating cow bells and cheers.  The Clippers put up an insurance goal making it 3-1, and it was a good thing too, because with only about 2 minutes remaining, right off the face off to Pacheco's left, the draw went back to the Barrie Blue point and they scored another through traffic.  The winning third goal stood, ending game 3 with Clippers 3, Blue 2.

By now, up 2 games, and netminders back, with two back to back home games scheduled, you would surmise the Clippers would hit their stride and take it to Barrie's upstarts!  Game 4 turned into a pitchers' dual (Ok the Jays have afterall started and home openers for baseball are just around the wintery corner)... Meaning, the goalies would determine this game.  Barrie scored first, in the first, on a messy turnover and ensuing scrum that left an errant puck on a Barrie stick with an open net.  1-0 at the end of the first.  1-0 at the end of the second... and surely this game was destined to end 1-0 at the end of the third?  Barrie Blue had a monster in the net.  He ate pucks, the ones he didn't never found a Clipper rebound, and if there was a chance, the Barrie D ate those too.  Adrian did his own version of gymnastics counting on the Clipper guns to find a way through Big Blue in net.  Who knows how, or who (ok many of you do know how and who but for this paragraph I don't and to quote the back of the Bantam's practice jerseys  "DOESN'T MATTER").  Somehow the little black rubber thing got around, or over or under the Barrie goalie.  Finally something to cheer about.  (We tried to get Jessica Burrows to do a pirouette or jete but her agent would not permit it).  Grandma Burrows clanged her bells, I banged the seats, the Clipper hometown support ROARED approval.  (THANK YOU FANS!)  1-1 .... Fate then assigned us a penalty to count down the final minute plus of regular play, but Barrie could not threaten at this late stage.  The Clipper fire was lit.

Over-time.  1-1 going in.  2-1  coming out, and once again, the OT point went to the Clippers.

Such a tight series with unexpected twists.  Barrie Blue fans, parents, families and players will all have their own version of memories from this series.  A hard-fought, close series.  The finale to both teams season producing some great hockey and its most exciting moments, saved right til the final buzzer.

Congratulations to both teams. 

              STOUFFVILLE GIVES HATS OFF TO PEEWEE AE CLIPPERS as

                                       YORK-SIMCOE CHAMPIONS
                                                      2015-2016


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