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posted 04/03/2008
On Saturday, March 29th, the Canton Mite C2 team captured the Yankee Conference K Division Championship. Riding the hot goaltending of Matt Casamento, who had two shutouts during the three game playoffs, the Mite C2 team beat Westwood 3-2 in a back and forth thriller. After going down 1-0 in the first 30 seconds of the game, Canton found themselves down a player after a tripping penalty, but Peter Bartlett, Adam Slocum, Bryan Healey and Thomas Cahill killed the power play to keep the Bulldogs down by one. In the second period, Canton battled back to tie the score at 1 on a goal by Tom Delello assisted by Jake Connolly. Later in the second period, down 2-1, Canton again came back on a nifty goal by Nick Rousseau, who was assisted by Tessa Cudmore and Ricky Mason.
In the third period, with the score tied at 2-2, the front line of Tom Delello, Mike Dadasis and Brian Ghostlaw cycled the puck in the Westwood zone and kept the pressure on. After a scramble in front of the Westwood net, Tom Delello scored his second goal of the game to put Canton ahead for good.
Westwood pressured right after the go-ahead goal, but thanks to the stingy defense of Brad Murphy and Rebecca Eckler, the Bulldogs were able to hold them off. During the last two minutes of the game, the defensive pairing of Cam McManus and Kristen Eckler shut down the Westwood offense to preserve the win.
All the hard work and extra effort by the kids during the regular season paid off for the Bulldogs during their exciting Championship playoff run.
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