With the best of five 2024 Sault Ste Marie High School Hockey League city championship series tied 1 – 1, the Korah Colts and the St Mary’s Knight hit the ice on Thursday, February 22nd for game three at the John Rhodes Centre.
Korah Colts (3) vs (5) St Mary’s Knights
Period 1
(13:37) St Mary’s Knights – Carter Doucette (Nik Vecchio/Lucas Green)
(8:46) Korah Colts – Preston Miller (Daego Campagna/Cole Arruda)
(5:22) St Mary’s Knights – Lucas Green (Carter Doucette/Nik Vecchio) (PP)
Period 2
(14:40) Korah Colts – Preston Miller (Daego Campagna/Cole Arruda)
(11:07) St Mary’s Knights – Daniel Guzzo (Lucas Green) (PP)
(10:22) St Mary’s Knights – Nik Vecchio (Unassisted) (PP)
Period 3
(1:33) Korah Colts – Koen Manchulenko (Ethan Ferguson) (PP)
(0:11) St Mary’s Knights – Nick Kelly (Lucas Green/Anthony Blonda)
Goaltenders
St Mary’s Knights – Grant Matthewson
Korah Colts – Payton Melchiorre
Korah coach Chris Perri told Saultsports that “we are taking to many penalties and it’s puts pressure on the entire team to kill penalties, it jumbles up lines and limits the amount of regular strength time we have to bounce back. We can’t afford to let our emotions get the best of us and make careless mistakes that cost us the game. Moving forward, we need to focus on maintaining our composure, showing up and playing a disciplined hockey game in its entirety. It’s time to put tonight’s game behind us, learn from our mistakes and come out next game with some relentless passion to win Sunday night!”
“Happy to come away with the win and series lead but we definitely need to clean some things up, our special teams and goaltending came up big for us. Need to do a better job getting pucks out of our zone consistently, we will review some film and be ready to go on Sunday.” added Knights coach Josh Dunn.
Visit Freeze Frame Photos by Bob Davies photo gallery of game three of the city championship best of five series between the St Mary’s Knights versus Korah Colts
Game four with the Knights leading the best of five series 2 – 1, the series heads back to the John Rhodes Centre on Sunday, February 25th with a puck drop at 5:30 p.m. Game four will be broadcasted on Saultsports TV and Roger tv.
