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Matt Cessna’s overtime goal - his second of the game - in Monday’s (March 18) decisive Game 3 of the Atlantic Junior Hockey League (AJHL) Playoff Championship Series lifted the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights to a 3-2 victory and the 2013 AJHL playoff championship over the Northern Cyclones.
The Knights won the best-of-three series, 2 games to 1, after falling to the regular-season champion Cyclones, 2-0, in Game 1 on Saturday before rebounding with a convincing 9-2 triumph on Sunday.
Cessna, a 1993-born forward from Chicago, was named the Most Valuable Player of the Playoff Championship Series.
The Knights swept their way to the finals, defeating the Boston Jr. Rangers, 2 games to 0, in the first round of the playoffs before disposing of the Connecticut Wolfpack in the semifinals, 2-0.
In Game 3 of the finals, Knights forward Nick Carey opened the scoring in the first period before Cyclones forwards Kevin Valenti (first-period marker) and Brian Bowen (second) countered to give Northern a 2-1 lead.
Cessna tied the contest with just 22 seconds left in regulation before his overtime heroics ended the series to give the Knights their first-ever AJHL championship.
Goaltender Mike DeLaVergne manned the nets for the Knights; J.J. Solloway was between the pipes for the Cyclones.
All three games were contested at Cyclones Arena in Hudson, N.H.
(Nathan can be reached at nathanfournier@mainehockeyjournal.com)
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