The Truro Major Bantam Bearcats lost two close games on the weekend in Sydney against the Cape Breton Cougars.

On Saturday at the Centre 200, the Bearcat's Brody MacPhee openned the scoring, only to have Carter MacGillivary and Mitchell Balmas put the Cougars ahead 2-1 before the period ended. In the second , the Bearcat's Aaron Coleman and Brady Meech each to flip the score in Truro's favour-3-2 after 2 periods. Midway thru the third period, the Cougar's tied it up on the power play and within a minute went ahead to stay, defeating the Bearcats 4-3. Assists n the game went Lucas Holman and Coleman with two, Bradley Gallant with a single. Truro's goalie Luke Melanson stopped 31 of 35 in the loss.

On Sunday, both teams playing a physical and a two way hockey game, but came up on the short end of a 2-1 loss to the Cougars. Noah Archibald opened the scoring scoring a short handed marker with the assist going to Michael Stuart. Both the Cougars goals came on the Power Play.

Bearcats goalie Blake Meech stopped 22 of 24 shots while Cape Breton's Levi Denny stopped 21 of 22.

The Bearcats are home this Saturday against the Western Hurricanes at the Colchester Legion Stadium at 430pm.