AMHERST - Playoff hopes for the Amherst Ramblers faded Saturday night when the home team dropped a 5-3 decision to the Bridgewater Lumberjacks in front of a packed house at the Amherst Stadium.
Despite a two goal effort from Justin Matthews, including one with less than a minute on the clock, the Ramblers could not pull off the comeback. Andrew Wigg of Bridgewater sealed the deal at 19:42 of the third period.
Brandon Street also scored for Amherst, with assists coming from Mitchell O'Neill, Nick Brown, Robert Davis, Trevor Layton and Street.
Matt Stoddard led the Lumberjacks in scoring with two goals, while singles came from Michael Crawley, Tyler Noseworthy and Wigg.
The victory earned Bridgewater a playoff spot.
(For the full story, see Monday's issue of the Amherst Daily News)
to reply to doug kenny about my post not correct i would like to go father to say pictou were 10 and 6 befor trade in 16 games and 10 and 6 after trades and 3 of those losses came to the 3 basement teams bridgewater, metro, and amhearst. i know that amhearst were outshot but you can,t forget the goaltender he also is part of the team.they traded for him to rememer good trade or what ,i think so. i am not saying this to knock pictou as a matter a fact im cheering for thembut i still say amhearst played as well as they could with the players they had. you can,t knock a coach when he get,s the most out of his players and that,s what he did. don,t forget this is the direction the president wanted to go in for this year remember .