The Yorkton Kinsmen Terriers have eliminated the Lumsden/Bethune Lions in the opening round of the 麻豆传媒AV Saskatchewan Minor Hockey League鈥檚 AA Midget Division playoffs.
The series got under way last Tuesday with Yorkton hosting the Lions.
The visitors jumped out to the lead on goals by Ryan Monteith and McGuire Danbrook.
A powerplay goal by Josh Herman put Yorkton on the board, before Taylor Onishenko added a Lions goals to make it 3-1 heading to the dressing rooms after 20-minutes of play.
Chase Zurowski added a powerplay marker early in the second to extend the Lumsden/Bethune lead to 4-1 before the Terriers began a comeback.
Michael Coleridge, Josh Peppler on the powerplay and then Coleridge again would score in the final 5:10 of the second to tie the game at 4-4.
In the third, Colby Vranai with an unassisted effort and Massan Ziola on the powerplay scored to make it 6-4 Yorkton.
Jacob Ulmer got one of those back for the Lions before Josh Herman completed his hat trick with a pair of goals to round out an 8-5 Yorkton win.
Riley Christison took the loss in the Lions net, while Tyson Byman took the win for Yorkton.
In Bethune
Game two of the series saw action switch to the Bethune Arena Thursday.
The first period saw the teams trade unassisted markers, Zurowski for the Lions and Evan Mattatal for the Terriers.
Kyle Nameth would be the only goal scorer of the middle stanza, his goal giving the home side a 2-1 lead.
Conlan Nielson would make it 3-1 for the Lions with another unassisted marker in the third, before Ziola fired a final goal for Yorkton to make it close at 3-2 for the Lions to even the series at a game apiece.
Spencer Welke took the loss in the Terrier net, with Christison backstopping the home side to the win.
Back at the Farrell
The series returned to the Farrell Agencies Arena for game three Saturday.
In the first period an unassisted goal by Lion Rylan Bennett was sandwiched between Terrier goals by Josh Peppler and Ashton Shewchuk, leaving the home side up 2-1 after 20-minutes.
It was a repeat performance of sorts in the second. McGuire Danbrook鈥檚 goal for Lumsden/Bethune was sandwiched between Yorkton goals by Dylan Novak and Dreyden Haberman to leave the score 4-2 Terriers through two periods.
The third period, however, was all Yorkton as Shewchuk with his second of the game, Colby Vrani, William Hauber, and Tyler Shankowsky all potting goals to make it an 8-2 win for the Terriers.
Christison was again in net for the Lions in the loss, with Welke getting the win for Yorkton.
Game four
What would be the deciding game in the series was held Monday in Lumsden.
While the game sheet was not posted by presstime, the final score was 7-2 in favour of the Lion Terriers.
Yorkton head coach Brad Haberman said the Lions proved their own worst enemy in the series.
鈥淭hey ran around and took bad penalties,鈥� he said, adding the Terriers made them paying scoring nine powerplay goals聽 in the series.
鈥淭hey were a very undiscplined team.鈥�
And that trend certainly continued in the deciding game Monday.
鈥淚t got pretty heated in the end. I wasn鈥檛 very happy the way they played the last 10-minutes,鈥� said Haberman.
鈥淚t got a little hairy.鈥�
Haberman said the shennigans even spread into the stands.
The result was a bad taste in everyone鈥檚 mouth.
鈥淣o one shook hands at the end of the game. It was very classless on their part,鈥� said Haberman.
The Terriers must now wait until other series are complete before knowing who they will face in round two of the playoffs.
