Markham ended the regular season by traveling to the home of Canada ’s #1 rated team, the Aurora Tigers.  Battling hard for 60 minutes, the Waxers, stayed close with the Tigers but in the end fell by a 6-4 score.   Again, Greg van’t Hof performed well in the Waxers net, making 33 saves in the losing cause.  

Aurora took a 2-0 lead after the first period before Markham would get on the scoreboard.  Ben Cottreau made it 2-1 when he converted on the powerplay early in the second period for his team leading 43^rd goal of the season.  Aurora stretched their lead to 4-1 before the Waxers would close the second period with a flourish, scoring twice in the last 1:32 of the period, on two Ryan Olidis goals, to make it 4-3 entering the final period.  

Aurora made it 5-3 early in the third before a Steve Ritchie goal made it 5-4.  A Cottreau assist on Ritchie’s goal gave him 95 points on the season (in 43 games played), which at this point appears to give Cottreau the unofficial OPJAHL League Scoring Title.  Aurora would salt away the victory with a just past the midway point of the third to round out the regular season.