The Fundy Highland Selects play their third game at the 2019 Bantam AAA Female Hockey Atlantic Championship in Clarenville, NFLD.
The Selects, based in Pictou Co., feature several local players; Bryan Smith, the team’s head coach, is from Antigonish.
They won their first two games of the tournament Thursday; they play PEI’s Western Wind (0-1-0) at 4 p.m.
The five-team round-robin wraps up Saturday; the top two teams advance to the championship game Sunday, with the third and fourth-place teams playing for bronze.
You can find a link to the tournament website here.
The province’s two Quebec Major Junior Hockey League teams open the second round of the playoffs.
St. Andrews’ Declan Smith and the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles visit River Denys’ Colten Ellis and the Rimouski Oceanic in game one of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semi-final.
The Screaming Eagles (40-22-6), who finished fifth in the conference with 86 points, beat Charlottetown in six games in the first round to advance; the Oceanic (44-20-4), who were third with 92 points, swept Chicoutimi in the opening round.
Cape Breton swept the two-game season series between the teams.
Game time is 8:30 p.m.; the series remains in Rimouski for game two Sunday afternoon.
The Halifax Mooseheads host Pleasant Valley’s Jacob Hudson, Antigonish’s Jake and Sean Stewart and the Moncton Wildcats in the opening game of their second-round series.
The Mooseheads (49-15-4), the conference’s top seed with 102 points, needed seven games to eliminate Quebec in the first round; the Wildcats (38-21-9), who finished seventh with 85 points, upset second-seed Baie-Comeau in the opening round.
Halifax won seven of the nine games in the season series between the division rivals.
Puck drop at Scotiabank Centre is 7 p.m.; the series remains in Halifax for game two Saturday night.
