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Eskasoni takes Game 7 of Rowe Final....NS Junior Championship series opens Easter Eve at C.F.B. Shearwater | NSJHL

Eskasoni takes Game 7 of Rowe Final....NS Junior Championship series opens Easter Eve at C.F.B. Shearwater

Posted on April 2, 2026

By Dan Boyd

Eskasoni takes Game 7 of Rowe Final....NS Junior Championship series opens Easter Eve at C.F.B. Shearwater

For the first time in five years, the Antigonish Jr. Bulldogs will not be playing for the Veterans Cup, symbolic of Nova Scotia Junior Hockey Supremacy.  The Bulldogs were defeated 5-2 at home Thursday evening by the Eskasoni Jr. Eagles who will now open a Best-of-Seven Championship series with the Capstone Colts.

 
The Jr. Eagles rallied from a 3-1 deficit in their Best-of-Seven Sid Rowe Division Final to advance to the 25-26 Nova Scotia Junior Championship series.
 
In the opening period Thursday night, the clubs exchanged two goals in 42 seconds with less than three minute to play in the opening period.  Keegan O’Neill scored the first of his two in the game while Gavin Clarke tallied for the Bulldogs.
 
The second period was tied at 2-2 until Kendrick Marshall scored what proved to be the game winner for the Jr. Eagles with slightly more than five minutes remaining in the middle period.  Earlier Kegan Geizer put Eskasoni up 2-1 before Brody MacPherson scored for the Bulldogs.
 
In the third, the Jr. Eagles obviously tasted the championship as Keegan O’Neill scored his second of the night and ninth of the playoffs on the power-play before Marcellus Francis put one into an empty net to make the final 5-2.  Francis also collected a pair of assists in the deciding game.  O’Neill has collected 18 points in 11 playoff games after registering 20 in only 12 regular season games this season.
 
Antigonish outshot Eskasoni 34-29 but Darian MacInnis stopped 32 of 34 shots in leading the Eagles to the Championship series, which opens at the C.F.B. Shearwater Forum Saturday night at 7:30 p.m.
 
As noted earlier this will mark the first time in five years that the Bulldogs will not be playing for a provincial championship.  After winning three consecutive Nova Scotia and Atlantic Junior Championships in 21-22, 22-23 and 23-24, they were defeated by the Colts in the 25-26 Provincial Championship.

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