It’s down to a winner-take-all Game 5 for the Tweed Oil Kings and Manotick Mariners in the NPHL Sentinel Cup finals.
Both teams won on the road last weekend to leave the best-of-five championship series all knotted up at two games apiece. Game 5 goes Saturday, April 4 in Manotick.
MARINERS 6, OIL KINGS 5 (O.T.)
A packed barn in Tweed was the site of Game 4 Sunday afternoon where the visiting Mariners won in overtime after Colin Van Den Herk had tied the tilt for the Oil Kings in the third period.
Van Den Herk finished with two goals and two assists to earn First Star honours. Jakob Brahaney, Isaac Brown and Jacob Vreugdenhill supplied the other local markers.
In net, Tweed backstop Matt Loveys made 47 saves for the nod at Second Star. His Oil King teammates fired 49 shots at the Manotick cage.
OIL KINGS 6, MARINERS 4
An empty-netter by Jacob Vreugdenhill sealed the deal for Tweed Saturday night at Manotick where the visiting Oil Kings skated away with a 6-4 victory. Elijah Brahaney, with a pair, Mac Lowry, Isaac Brown and Dawson Ellis scored the earlier Tweed goals.
Shots favoured the home team, 38-29, with Evan Morrison posting the W in net for the Kings.
ON DECK: Sentinel Cup fifth and deciding game Saturday, April 4 at Manotick, 7:30 p.m.
NEED TO KNOW: The western segment of the NPHL got its championship round under way last weekend with the Alvinston Killer Bees and Six Nations Ironmen splitting the opening two games of the best-of-five Apex Cup final.


