The Coquitlam Adanacs scored nine straight goals to erase a 3-1 first-period deficit and romp to a 14-5 win over the Victoria Shamrocks Sunday at the Q Centre. The win gives the Adanacs a 2-0 lead in their BCJALL best-of-five playoff series over Victoria after Coquitlam took the opener, 14-10, Saturday.
After Thomas Semple gave the Adanacs a quick 1-0 lead, Victoria stormed back with three straight goals to take a two-goal lead into the first intermission. The Shamrocks also outshot the visitors 13-12.
But the second period was all Adanacs, literally. Dennon Armstrong’s power play goal was the first of six unanswered goals by Coquitlam in the frame. Colin Munro, with two, Tommy Scanlan, Keenan Koswin and Baden Boyenko also found the net, as the visitors outshot their hosts 19-11.
Goals six seconds apart by Armstrong and Nick Jensen extended Coquitlam’s lead to 9-3 less than two minutes into the third period.
After Scanlan scored his second of the game to make it 10-4, Victoria’s Nick Preston finally ended the barrage when he beat Coquitlam keeper Christian Del Bianco on a power play.
Munro led all Coquitlam scorers with three goals and five assists, while Scanlan added four helpers to his pair of goals. Semple and Koswin each had five points. The Adanacs outshot Victorial 52-38.
The lopsided win was a marked contrast to Saturday’s series opener at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Centre when the Shamrocks outshot the Adanacs 59-48 and never trailed by more than three goals until late in the second period.
Again, Coquitlam opened the scoring as Armstrong beat Victoria goalie Will Kinnaird less than two minutes into the game.
But two goals by Marshall King—one on the power play and the other at even strength—put the visitors in front.
It was short-lived, as less than two minutes later Munro tied it and and two quick goals in the final 1:09 of the first period put Coquitlam in front to stay.
Victoria’s Brad McCulley got one of them back on the power play just less than nine minutes into the second period. But again the Adanacs responded with two goals, by Munro and Semple, 28 seconds apart to extend Coquitlam’s lead to 6-3.
Beyenko and Armstrong each has six-point games for the Adanacs, while Munro chipped in with five points.
The teams resume their series Saturday at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Centre. If a fourth game is necessary then the teams return to Victoria for Game Four, Sunday at the Q Centre.
PoCo Saints facing elimination
The PoCo Saints need a win Tuesday at Queen’s Park Arena if they want to extend their playoff series with the New Westminster Salmonbellies.
The Saints gave up the first four goals at the PoCo rec centre en route to a 10-7 loss in Friday’s second game of their best-of-five series.
Jacob Patterson, Jeremy Bosher and Brine Rice, with two, staked the visitors to a 4-0 lead before Clarke Walter got PoCo on the scoreboard with two minutes remaining in the first period.
Connor Robinson extended New West’s lead to 5-1 early in the second period. But goals by Greg Lunde and Dylan Foulds got the Saints back into the game, trailing 5-3.
Larson Sundown put the Salmonbellies up by three. Less than a minute later, PoCo’s Clarke Walter scored the first of two straight goals to close New West’s advantage to one.
That’s as close as the Saints got, as goals by Mitch Stokes and Rice before the third period was three minutes old restored New West’s three-goal margin.
Lunde added five assists to this single goal to lead PoCo’s offence. Walter scored four goals and Keegan Bell set up four.
If necessary, game four of the series will be played Friday, 8 p.m. at the PoCo rec centre.
