by Romano Di Franco
The Nepean Raiders visited the Pembroke Royals at the Pembroke Memorial Centre for the third game of their four game road trip. Nepean was coming off a 4-1 loss to the Navan Grads at the Earl Armstrong Arena. Meanwhile the Pembroke Royals pulled off the upset having won 4-2 against the Kemptville 73s.
For the starting goalies, Otsirakatste Brant who was remarkable in the last game on Friday got the start in goal for the Raiders and Brayden Burrows got the nod in goal for the Pembroke Royals.
Nepean got on the board first when Brody Dunbar scored his first career CCHL goal on the powerplay. Jack Malandra and Cole Stants drew the assists. Pembroke answered back when Caleb Bourne tallied his third goal of the year assisted from Luca Kettles and Daxton Markwick got the assists on the goal. The goalies in the first were brilliant with Brant and Burrows performing well in goal for each team.
Brayden Blyth was the third Nepean Raider to score ten goals this season when he helped Nepean retake the lead. Pembroke took over the rest off the second period with goals from Tristen Aben, Luca Kettles and Jalen Lobo.
Instead of folding, Nepean began a comeback with goals from Lucas Leblanc and Benjamin Carr. The Royals would take the lead again with Caleb Bourne’s second goal of the game.
With Brant at the bench for the extra attacker, Ryan English would score to tie the game at five goals to five. It was his third goal in the last four games.
The game goes into overtime and just like the game on Sunday October 25th against the Smiths Falls Bears, Brayden Blyth’s second goal of the game was the game winning goal. That helped the Raiders cap off the comeback with style!
For the three star selections, having scored twice in the game including the game winning overtime goal, Brayden Blyth was rewarded the first star of the game for the Nepean Raiders, having scored his first career CCHL goal Brody Dunbar was given the game’s second star of the game and finally for his three point performance Luca Kettles was granted the third star of the game for the Pembroke Royals.
Nepean’s next game will take place on Saturday November 14th when they visit the Ottawa Junior Senators at the Jim Durrell Sports Complex for a 7:30PM puck drop.
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