The Mapleton-Minto 81’s came out of their first weekend of second-round playoff action deadlocked with the Saugeen Shores Winterhawks.
The 81’s took the first game of the best-of-seven WOAA Senior ‘AA’ semi-final series by a 5-2 count in Palmerston on Feb. 26. The Winterhawks rebounded in game two on Feb. 27 in Port Elgin, winning by a 3-2 margin.
Game three in the series goes March 4 in Palmerston at 8:30pm. Game four is back in Saugeen Shores on March 5 at 7:30pm.
The winner of this series will play for the league championship against the victor of a series between the Clinton Radars and Petrolia Squires, also tied at one game apiece.