By Jeff Gard/Today’s Northumberland
The Port Hope Panthers dropped both games of a home-and-home set with the Amherstview Jets in Provincial Junior Hockey League action this weekend.
On Saturday night, Artyom Shiman scored with 33 seconds remaining in regulation time to lift the Jets to a 5-4 win over the Panthers at the Jack Burger Sports Complex in Port Hope.
Port Hope led three times in the contest, including on two goals by Nolan Stevenson and one by Oz Paziuk.
Stevenson opened the scoring on a power play at 12:54 of the first period, but the Jets responded 17 seconds later. Paziuk restored the Port Hope lead at 14:29 of that opening frame with Carter Clarke drawing an assist, just as he did on Stevenson’s first tally.
With the scored tied 2-2 after the first, Stevenson netted his second power-play goal of the game and team-leading ninth marker 6:20 into the second.
Amherstview tied it up with its own power play goal in the second and then took its first lead of the game just under seven minutes into the third.
Bryson Kelloway evened the score for the Panthers with 4:25 left on the clock before the late winner by Shiman. Port Hope outshot Amherstview 44-28.
Sunday night in Amherstview, the Panthers outshot the Jets again 36-33, but the hosts earned a 4-1 victory to improve to 7-2-0-0.
Trailing 1-0 in the first, Will Perley-Fry scored to the Panthers at the 17:17 mark.
The Jets scored three times unanswered in the second en route to the victory.
Port Hope (3-6-1-0) heads to Campbellford on Saturday for a 7:30 p.m. match-up against the Rebels (3-6-0-0).
