{"id":36942,"date":"2025-10-09T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=36942"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:33:48","slug":"junior-panthers-sweep-three-game-homestand-with-wins-over-burlington-barracudas-oakville-hornets-and-oha-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/junior-panthers-sweep-three-game-homestand-with-wins-over-burlington-barracudas-oakville-hornets-and-oha-mavericks\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Panthers sweep three-game homestand with wins over Burlington Barracudas, Oakville Hornets, and OHA Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Central York Panthers\u2019 three-game home-stand yielded two regulation wins and one shootout win at SARC to vault the rebuilt squad into third place in the 25-team OWHA U22 Elite Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Junior Panthers eked out an exciting 2-1 shootout decision over the Burlington Barracudas on Wednesday night via Annabella Van Berkel\u2019s highlight reel goal. On Saturday afternoon, Van Berkel\u2019s three-point game paced Central York to a 5-2 win over the Oakville Hornets. On Sunday afternoon, Audrey Martone\u2019s natural hat trick led the Panthers to a 6-3 come-from-behind victory over the OHA Mavericks to complete a productive 8-point week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday\u2019s tilt versus the Barracudas was decided by Van Berkel\u2019s climactic third round shootout marker. The speedy Panther sped down the right wing, cut dramatically to her left toward the net, and fired the puck high stick side that rang off the pipe and behind Burlington goaltender Mackenzie Ferguson to win the game and elicit a spirited celly by her teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After five players from both sides had failed to put the biscuit in the basket during the shootout, Panthers\u2019 Head Coach Steve Dempsey assessed his talented forward\u2019s emphatic goal: \u201cAnnabella went to the Team Canada camp. There was a reason she was our third shooter. She\u2019s one of the few players in the league that can overwhelm a goalie. She did that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Berkel\u2019s heroics would not have been possible without a clutch power play goal by Panther teammate Anastasia Trifon in the final minute of the third period which tied the game 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Dempsey was impressed with the turn of events and his rebuilt team\u2019s performance, despite some rough patches versus Burlington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have to find different ways to win. This win is something we\u2019ll be able to draw on later in the season. We see glimpses of a good team emerging and we have the ability to play at a high level. We struggled tonight to get connected and it was very choppy at times.  We made line changes on the weekend to prepare for this game. It\u2019s also a tight 48-game schedule this year with the league expanding and we could use more practice time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a scoreless first period, the Barracudas struck first when Addison Butler\u2019s power play goal gave the visitors a 1-0 lead at 12:09 of the middle frame. Burlington clung to their one-goal lead for over 28 minutes. With exactly 44.8 seconds left on the clock, Trifon skillfully redirected Lily Paisley\u2019s shot from the left point past Ferguson to give Central York their sought-after equalizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferguson had stymied the Panthers\u2019 high-scoring offence through fifty-nine minutes\u2014blocking all 32 shots faced in regulation until she yielded Trifon\u2019s second of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equally-noteworthy was the performance of Panthers\u2019 goaltender Claire Hicks who was masterful in the shootout by repelling all three Barracuda breakaways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Dempsey applauded his netminder\u2019s work between the pipes: \u201cI\u2019m happy for her. She went through a tough stretch. She\u2019s also settling in with a very new team. Claire shut [Burlington] down in the shootout so our scorers could come through.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday afternoon, Central York trailed Oakville 1-0 after twenty minutes of play, but the Panthers\u2019 offence shifted into high gear with three consecutive second period goals by Van Berkel, Martone, and Demi Lazarou to stake the home side to a 3-1 lead heading into the second intermission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A power play goal by Oakville\u2019s Maya Valeri cut Central York\u2019s lead to 3-2 less than five minutes into the final frame, but Panther forward Zoe Ordanis restored the home side\u2019s two-goal margin with just under eight minutes to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 1:49 remaining on the clock, Van Berkel fired her second of the game into an empty net to complete her three-point game and clinch the game for the red-hot Panthers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday afternoon versus the Mavericks, Panthers forward Ellie Lewington\u2019s goal two minutes into the second period broke a scoreless tie. Martone and Keira Johnson earned assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Mavericks\u2019 forward Sophie Dedobbelaer tied it 1-1at 16:09, Martone\u2019s unassisted marker restored the Panthers\u2019 one-goal lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Mavericks took a 3-2 lead with two markers less than one minute apart by Jade Pelland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Panthers\u2019 vaunted offence kicked into high gear after Pelland\u2019s pair of goals for the Mavericks and Martone was at the centre of the storm surge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martone\u2019s second goal of the period tied the game at 4:31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six seconds later, the Panthers struck again when Demi Lazarou\u2019s unassisted marker restored the Panthers\u2019 one-goal lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martone earned her natural hat trick\u2014once again assisted by Johnson and Lewington\u2014as she fired her third goal of the period past Mavericks\u2019 goaltender Sonja Reed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central York\u2019s marksmanship was on display in the middle frame when the Panthers scored five goals on seventeen shots. Impressively, Martone made the scoresheet for four of her team\u2019s five goals.  Abby Pak closed the Panthers\u2019 scoring midway through the third period to provide the margin of victory\u2014the Panthers\u2019 fifth in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a battle for second place in the U22 division, the Junior Panthers host the Barrie Sharks on Wednesday, October 8.  Puck drop at SARC is 7.40 p.m. With the trio of victories, Central York improved their record to 7-1-0-0 for 21 points\u2014trailing second-place Barrie by only two points with two games in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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