Photos courtesy Kimberly Dickson

The Pictou County Weeks Junior A Crushers have won the Bent Division with a 3-2 win over the Truro Bearcats on Monday evening at the John Brother MacDonald Stadium. The Crushers won the series four games to two, to win the best of seven match up, charging back following a two game disadvantage after the Bearcats posted victories in the first two games of the series.Strong goal tending by Justin Collier as well as a huge overtime win in game three on the road gave the Crushers the momentum to forge ahead with four straight wins.  The Crushers are a team that showed lots of character and grit and an all round team effort in order to eliminate a tough Truro Bearcats squad, who finished the league standings ahead of the Crushers. The Crushers Specials Teams were impressive on both the penalty kill and power play throughout the series and along with key performances by Collier made the difference.Dan Joyce lead the Crushers with two goals and an assist, before the largest home town crowd in the history of the Crushers franchise. Captain Geoff Hum, who comes to play every night, contributed one goal and as assist. Joyce opened the scoring on a power play while Jamie MacInytre of the Bearcats replied to make it 1-1 to end the first period. Joyce's unassisted short handed goal put the Crushers up by one while captain Geoff Hum's tally on the power play made it 3-1 to end the second.Truro's Dana Fraser scored late in the third but Truro could not close the gap to force another overtime. Crushers Collier, Joyce and Hoyt were named the three stars of the game.With the win the Crushers were presented the Provincial Junior A banner by Hockey Nova Scotia. The Crushers will now face Woodstock Slammers for the MJAHL Championships.  Game one will be in Woodstock on Saturday and then back in New Glasgow on Tuesday evening at the John Brother MacDonald Stadium.

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