Comets swept out of playoff hunt

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The Equity

CHRIS LOWREY

FORT COULONGE

Feb. 23, 2019

After a hard fought inaugural season, the Pontiac Senior Comets saw their playoff hopes come to an unceremonious end in Cornwall on the weekend.

The Comets took on the Cornwall Prowlers in a best-of-three series that kicked off on Friday.

Friday’s game was a tight one, with both teams tallying two goals apiece in the first period.

The second period started with the Comet’s Mitchell Gibson putting one past Prowlers goalie Frédérick Roy to put the hometown team ahead.

However, the Prowlers bounced back quickly with two goals of their own to go ahead 3-2 at the halfway point.

The Comets’ Stéphane Paré tied the game just over halfway through the period. But the Prowlers snatched the lead back on a late period goal by Storm Adams.

With the Comets trailing 4-3 at the start of the third, the team knew it had to come out with a strong push.

Most of the third period went by without any goals being scored, but it was the calm before the storm that was the end of the game.

With less than five minutes left, Daniele Dissipio and Vincent Proulx scored to give the Comets a one-goal-lead.

With just over a minute left, Cornwall’s Olivier Donovan notched the tying goal, setting up an even more exciting finish.

With the crowd ready for overtime, the hopes of the Comets’ fans were extinguished when Cornwall’s Kenneth Neal scored with less than 30 seconds left in the game.

The heartbreaking loss meant that the Comets had to win Saturday’s game in Cornwall otherwise their season was finished.

The Comets started strong in game two with Proulx notching the opening goal just over a minute into the game.

But in quick succession, the Prowlers responded with two goals of their own to take a 2-1 lead going into the second period.

The Comets again opened the scoring in the second period when Paré buried less than a minute in.

With the game tied 2-2, Cornwall turned it up a notch and responded with four straight goals before Miguel Laurin stopped the bleeding for the Comets.

With the Comets trailing 6-3 at the start of the third period, the players knew they had to come out strong.

Unfortunately they were blanked in the final period while Cornwall scored three more times for a final score of 9-3.

The Comets lost a close battle to the Cornwall Prowlers on Friday night, eventually getting swept from the Outaouais Senior A Hockey League playoffs. Pictured, a Prowler gets a shot past defenseman Colton Keuhl, only to be blocked by Comet goalie Danick Boisvert.

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