Dek: Local Boys have a chance at the Regional Finals

The U11 Otter Energy Prince Edward County Kings are marching on in the 2025 OMHA playdowns.

The Kings emphatically punched their ticket to the Finals Tuesday night with a 9-0 whitewash of the visiting Tweed Hawks.

The team spread the scoring around with 8 different goal scorers lighting the lamp in Game Two.

But as good as the Kings were in the offensive zone, their play was spotless in the defensive end.

Netminder Lane Bulten was brilliant in the early going when a Tweed tally might have tipped the scales in the visitor’s favour. The defensive tandem of Evern van der Bij and Solomon Holmes had a particularly strong outing.

Ezra McLuhan sprang Wyatt Robinson for the game’s opening goal just under two minutes into the contest. The pair teamed up again just over five minutes later to set up Owen Cameron and the Kings were off and running with a 2-0 lead.

By the time the buzzer rang at the end of the period, Knox Stevens and Austin Howe each had a goal and an assist to make it a 4-0 spread for the locals.

In the second, Carson Norman showed a nose for the net, digging out a loose puck in the crease and firing it across the goal line to make it 5-0 Kings.

Laik Cole, the County’s most consistent two-way performer of the night, tucked home a nice wrap-around effort before the end of the second stanza to push the Kings to a 6-0 lead after two.

Mr. Cole doubled down in the third while Cruz Thompson and Emerson Gellar also tickled the twine for the Kings.

The Kings hook up next with the Bancroft Jets for a chance to attend the U11 OMHA Championship in Kingston in April.

They host Bancroft on Saturday in Wellington for Game One of the OMHA U11 Regional finals at 2:30 p.m. Game Two goes Sunday at the North Hastings Community Centre at 12:30 p.m.