The Gateway Gladiators Squirts skated their way to a 19-2-1 regular season and 2-1-0 playoffs, but just missed the championship win in overtime versus Walpole Express Sunday afternoon.

Gateway was fired up the whole game and so were their fans, cheering to the end. In the first period, Ty David Ribeiro fired one in with assists from Jacob Hebbel and Lucy Murphy. In the second, Gateway was unable to get on the score sheet. In the third period, the pressure was on with the score sitting at 2-1 Walpole.

Benjamin Hebbel added one with help from J. Hebbel and Ribeiro. Ribeiro then scored his second of the game with an assist from Brayden Hathon. Soon after, Walpole scored again from a bad bounce, tying the game 3-3. What a nail-biter, with seconds left it could go either way both teams playing hard and then the buzzer to end regulation.

In overtime, Gateway wanted the win and they showed it, but Walpole found a break and scored the winning goal to make it a 4-3 championship final for Walpole.