With one high-school boys hockey championship in the books, the other remains to be claimed this week.

The St Benedict Bears knocked off a very pesky Confederation Chargers squad 6-3 Monday night at the Carmichael Arena, sweeping their best of three Division II set in two straight.

The Bears received two goal efforts from both Cole Crowder and Ethan Matijevich, with Jeremy Houle and Jack Rain also joining them on the scoresheet.

Meanwhile, the Chargers, who were very much in the game heading into the final period of both outings, were sparked, offensively, by Tanner McCosham, Mike Calvank and Denver Boyuk, all of whom lit the lamp on Monday.

The real drama, however, would come earlier that evening, as the regular season champion Horizon Aigles avoided being swept in the city Division I finals, posting a huge 4-2 victory over the St Charles College Cardinals.

After being saddled with back to back 3-2 losses, the Aigles were in control of game three through almost the entirety of the contest. A first period short-handed goal by Caleb Rainville provided an initial lift, while a second period shot from defenceman Cedrick Jutras that deflected off a St Charles' defender only served to accentuate what appeared to be an inevitable Horizon win, with the team playing outstanding team defence in front of the rock-solid netminding of Owen Kilganon.

With less than five minutes to play, however, a pretty three-way passing play in which Riley Bridge and Braeden Watson worked the puck in to Matthew Vehkala, who redirected it into the empty net, created the first chink in the armour.

Just thirty seconds later, the Cardinals would pull even as a shot from Jordan Faught, flying down the wing, handcuffed Kilganon and appeared to signal preparation for yet another overtime battle.

Aigles' head coach Brian Dube would call a timeout on the very next stoppage, settling his team down, and the move paid dividends roughly two minutes later when Mathieu Poliquin split the St Charles defence, was stopped by Cardinals' goalie Ryan Teddy, who could not prevent Eric Frappier from jamming home the rebound.

Ben Lacroix added an empty-net marker as the Aigles forced a fourth game on Wednesday night in Walden, the team trailing the best of five affair two games to one.

On Saturday night in Hanmer, St Charles racked up their second straight triumph by just a single goal, as Braden Watson, Cole Molyneaux and Matthew Vehkala all solved started Blake Barnard, with Vehkala netting the game-winning goal just over five minutes into period two.

Caleb Rainville accounted for both of the Horizon markers, knotting the game at 1-1 late in the first and giving the home team the lead, with the man advantage, early in the middle stanza.

From there, St Charles could play to the skating game that they love to employ. "We forechecked really hard," said Cole Molyneaux, after the game. "The coaches have been on us, all year, to forecheck really hard, and I think we executed that very well today."

"And we knew that they had some guys that can wheel, so we had to identify them and be sure, when we're back-checking, to make sure that we have a guy, to pick up the high guy and not always the guy with the puck."

"We had to make sure we always had a guy high," Molyneaux added. "That's very important, especially when you are up and don't need a goal."

Game five, if necessary, is set for 6:00 p.m. on Friday (March 6th) at the Centennial Arena in Hanmer.