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Bulldogs squeak by Eagles, Oxen surprise Penguins

Posted on November 23, 2025

By Dan Boyd

Bulldogs squeak by Eagles, Oxen surprise Penguins

The season series is now deadlocked at 2-2 and the Antigonish Jr. Bulldogs trail the first place Eskasoni Jr. Eagles by only three points following a tremendous see-saw battle in Antigonish Friday night.

The Jr. Eagles held leads of 3-1 and 5-4 but simply could not hold off a hard charging Bulldogs unit as Jake Prince scored the game winner with 7:22 to play for a 6-5 Antigonish victory. The Eagles jumped in front 3-1 with 1:30 to play in the opening period before Will McKinnon’s short-handed goal with only 28 seconds left gave the Jr. Eagles a 3-2 lead after one. Kent Wolodka, Alexander Chenhall and Keagan Geizer tallied goals for Eskasoni in the first while Will Normandeau added the other Bulldogs goal.

In the second, Gavin Clarke’s power-play goal and Tully Grant’s goal made it 4-3 Bulldogs after two.

In the third, the Jr. Eagles in an attempt to win their 11th game of the season took a 5-4 lead on goals from Noah MacKinnon and Kendrick Marshall’s short-handed effort. The Bulldogs came right back in lightening fashion as Kevin Walker and Prince scored to give the Bulldogs the 6-5 win.

Geizer’s goal in the first also came along with a pair of assists for the Eagles while Will McKinnons goal also came along with two assists. Antigonish outshot Eskasoni 50-31. The Bulldogs now have a chance to move within a single point of the Jr. Eagles when they play the Jr. Miners in Membertou Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. Elsewhere Friday night:

Windsor 5 East Hants 4

For the second time this week, the Penguins fell to a teaming the lower-half of the Fred Fox Division as they lost to the Windsor Oxen on home ice 5-4 after falling to Sackville Monday night.

The Oxen now 6-7-2 gave the Penguins an early 3-0 lead after one period before roaring back with five consecutive goals, three of them in the second to leave the teams tied at 3-3 after forty minutes. Finley Diab, Jayson Hanson who also recorded a pair of assists and Jacob Sanford gave the Penguins their 3-0 lead before Dylan Manning, Wilson Davison and Jacob Gerhardt with only 47 seconds left in the middle period tied it at 3-3 for the Oxen.

In the third, DeShawn Fletcher and Gerhardt with his second of the game gave the Oxen a one goal lead at 5-4 before Chris Caissie scored his 16th goal of the season while recording points in 13 of his last 14 games pulled the Pens to within one goal with only 23 seconds left in regulation but it was as far as the Pens could go who fell into third place one point behind both the Colts and South Shore Lumberjacks. East Hants outshot Windsor 36-26.

Colts 10 Port Hawkesbury 2

The Colts moved into a tie with the Lumberjacks for first place in the Fred Fox as they destroyed the Port Hawkesbury Strait Pirates 10-2. Cody Garcin scored a hat-trick and added an assist for the Colts while Liam Andrews scored once and added three assists and Cooper Puma and Jacob Troini-Willis both scored and added a pair of assists. Other Colt goals went to Fin Merritt, Connor MacPhee, Xavier Coggins and Brandt Whitelaw. Aidan O’Rourke and Angus Berry scored for the Strait. The Colts are now 12-3-0 while the Pirates fell to 6-9-1. Luke McPhee recorded three assists for the Colts.

Bulldogs squeak by Eagles, Oxen surprise Penguins

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