Jonas Gagnon
Observer Reporter
Quesnel Thunder was within a hair’s breadth of making the finals before the Bears woke up and managed to even the score during playoff action at the PeeWee Tier 3 Championships.
“We had them right where we wanted them going into the third,” Dustin Peacock, Quesnel’s coach, said.
The score was 4-1 in favour of the Thunder for most of the game and, after a couple well-fought games against Semiamhoo and Kerry Park and a difficult loss to tournament-leaders, Whistler, Quesnel Thunder were going to the finals, as long they kept the Bears from scoring three goals in the the third.
Then the walls came down.
In the last period the Bears managed a three point, unanswered run that netted them the tie and an entry into the finals.
“We sat back on our heels and let the momentum shift to the other side and we just couldn’t recover,” Peacock said.
Though Vanderhoof and Quesnel had both won two games, and lost one, the semi-final position went to the Bears on goals for/against, the tie breaking procedure for the BC Hockey association.
“The kids were pretty crushed,” said Peacock.