For the second time this season, the Langley peewee A3 Eagles have captured the gold medal.
The Langley Minor Hockey Association team was competing at a tier 2 tournament hosted by Port Moody over the Remembrance Day long weekend.
With the score tied at two midway through the third period against Port Moody A2 in the final, Jude Wessel stick-handled through three defenders and fired the puck on goal with Billy Thompson burying the rebound. It was his second game-winning goal of the tournament. The Eagles would add an empty-net goal to win 4-2.
Langley needed some heroics in the semifinals just to make the final.
The team trailed Saanich A2 3-0 with nine minutes remaining but the Eagles forced overtime and won 4-3 when CJ Christenson buried a rebound off a shot from Dayton Milligan 40 seconds into overtime.
“This team has a few great leaders which were needed in the semifinal game,” said coach Darcy Pinch.
“The team deserved the gold medal for all of their hard work over the weekend.”
In the team’s other games, they defeated Coquitlam A2 Chiefs 4-2, out-scored Victoria T3 8-7 with Jared Striker netting a late power-play goal for the winner, and then rode the shut-out goaltending of player of the game Dominic Bosa in a 4-0 win in their final round robin game.
Nicholas Cormack (one goal) was the player of the game against Coquitlam while Hayden Yahn (one goal, two assists) was player of the game versus Victoria.
