Spartans take game #1, 5-1 | Titans de témiscaming

Spartans take lead in series with 5-1 win

In a game where the Almaguin Spartans dominated almost every aspect of the game played Thursday evening at the Centre and go back home to South River for the next 2 games leading the best of 5 North division semi final. The Spartans played a typical playoff style hockey. The Spartans were the superior team tonight as the controlled most of the play winning a fairly high percentage of face offs. You win the face off, you control the play ! An all around team effort by the Spartans had the Titans looking puzzled and frustrated. The only statistic that the Titans dominated were the shots on goal, 52-35. But a lot of these shots were long distance that Erik Spath had no trouble with. The Titans also kept the penalties to a minimum with 2 minors compared to 7 for the Spartans

Any way you lose whether by one goal, four goals or ten goals a loss is a loss.

The Spartans and Titans will renew their acquaintances tomorrow evening in South River, game time is 7:30pm. Game 3 will be again in South River on Sunday evening. If required a game 4 will be back at the Centre next Tuesday at 7:30pm.

Alex Provost-Ross was the lone Titans goal scorer and was the 3^rd star. First star was Matt Labrosse (S) and the second was Alex Gauthier (S). Emile Goulet suffered his first loss in the playoffs.