Sunday 26th October - Botany Rink ( 7.15 - 8.45pm )
Venom & Bears dominated there respective semi finals to meet in this years Div 4 final. If the script was to follow the regular season this was going to be a hard fourght contest between two evenly matched teams.
The Venom opened the scoring in the first period & the Bears answered minutes later to see the score 1 - 1 .
Through the next two periods of hockey , both teams had there chances to get the go ahead goal but this game had been taken over by the goaltenders as they shut up shop and denied all comers.
60 minutes of action and the score remained 1 - 1. The question became " Would 4 on 4 overtime produce a winner or would be be going to shoot out ? "
Venom caught a break in overtime with a Bears player shooting the puck out & coping a " delay of game penalty ". This was the opportunity that Venom where looking for and they made the most of it by scoring from the faceoff to take out the win 2 - 1.
2014 D4 Champions - Venom
Scoring Summary - PERIOD 1
Venom at 9:33 - Don Kolisnyk from Kyrssa Kolisnky & Mark Baldwin
Bears at 5:17 - Davey Carr from Mathew Walsh
Shots on Goal ( Bears 10 ) ( Venom 7 )
PERIOD 2 - No scoring
Shots on Goal ( Bears 6 ) ( Venom 6 )
PERIOD 3 - No scoring
Shots on Goal ( Bears 3 ) ( Venom 10 )
OVERTIME
Venom at 5.42 ( PP ) - takashi Kato from Mark Baldwin
Shots on Goal ( Bears 3 ) ( Venom 7 )
Bears Goaltending - Jonny Wong Too 28 Saves , 93.33%
Venom Goaltending - Lochlyn Hyde 21 Saves , 95.45%
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