SYDNEY — The Glace Bay Panthers held off the Riverview Redmen 3-1 on Sunday to even their best-of-seven Cape Breton High School Hockey League championship series at one game each.

Ironically, the same trio of Glace Bay players who scored in the team’s Game 1 loss scored again on Sunday as the Panthers reversed their fortunes before about 150 fans at the Canada Games Complex at Cape Breton University.

Glace Bay’s Dylan MacDonald opened the scoring early in the first period before a Trenton Gove tally just three minutes later gave the Panthers a two-goal lead. But then Riverview’s Dylan MacDonald scored less than a minute after the Gove goal.

Colin Rosta scored the Panthers’ insurance goal in the second period to mark the end of the game’s scoring. The Redmen played the final 1:56 of the contest with an empty net in favour of an extra attacker, but to no avail as Glace Bay’s Cody Smith kept the door shut. Smith stopped 22 of the 23 shots he faced, while Riverview’s Owen MacPhee was a bit busier as he faced 32 shots.

Game 3 is set for Friday evening at the County Recreation Centre in Coxheath, a 7:30 p.m. start.