By Jeff Gard/Today’s Northumberland
Parker Hendsbee’s second goal of the game lifted the Cobourg Cougars to a 5-4 overtime win in their Ontario Junior Hockey League pre-season opener over the visiting Wellington Dukes on Monday night.
Hendsbee also opened the scoring with the lone goal of the first period at the Cobourg Community Centre.
Wellington and Cobourg traded a pair of goals in the middle frame with Edward Noskowitz, shorthanded, and Ethan Walker scoring for the Dukes and Andy Reist and Trevor Hoskin, on a penalty shot, replying for the Cougars.
Noskowitz evened the score for the Dukes for the second time with a power-play marker just over 14 minutes into the third.
Tyler Hunt scored a go-ahead tally for the Cougars with just 43 seconds to play in regulation time, but with an extra attacker on the ice Wellington’s Zander Latreille answered back with a second remaining to send the game to overtime.
Hendsbee scored the winner 1:56 into the extra frame.
The two teams will meet again Friday in Wellington at 7:30 p.m.
Cobourg’s next exhibition home game is next Monday, Aug. 29 against the Lindsay Muskies. Game time is 7:30 p.m. at the CCC.
