Cape Breton Screaming Eagles – 4
Moncton Wildcats – 3 (SO)
Cape Breton goals: Egor Sokolov, Mitchell Balmas, Shaun Miller
St. Andrews’ Declan Smith, Cape Breton’s captain, missed the game with an upper-body injury; Pleasant Valley’s Jacob Hudson and Antigonish’s Jake Stewart were in the Moncton line-up, while Antigonish’s Sean Stewart was a scratch.
The Screaming Eagles (46-14-3), winners of four of their last five, are tied with Charlottetown for sixth in the 18-team league with 79 points, nine points behind Rimouski for fifth, and two points ahead of the eighth-place Wildcats.
Cape Breton earned a split in the home-and-home series between the Maritimes Division teams, and wins the nine-game season series 5-4.
Photo credit: Cape Breton Screaming Eagles (www.CapeBretonEagles.com)
