One win on the week kept the Yorkton Terriers out of the basement in the Viterra Division of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.
The Terriers sit third in the Viterra with a record of 8-15-01 for 17 points, two better than Melville with 15. Weyburn leads the loop with 35-points, followed by Estevan with 27.
After two road losses in La Ronge the Terriers were hoping for some revenge Wednesday hosting the same Ice Wolves.
But that was not to be.
Nick Prouty and Matthew Painchard scored unanswered goals in the first period for La Ronge.
Brendan Barron made it 3-0 for the visitors with the only score of the second stanza.
Painchard had made it 4-0 in the third before Regan Seiferling spoiled Kris Joyce鈥檚 shut-out bid with a goal at 19:34 to make it a 4-1 final.
Joyce faced 30-shots in the win, while Jakob Severson allowed four goals on 22-shots to take the loss for the Terriers.
Shoot-out win
The Terriers headed to Weyburn Friday, and played a scoreless first period against the Red Wings.
In the second Cole Keenleyside scored the only goal of the frame to give the Terriers a 1-0 lead.
Tucker Neuberger tied the game with a goal at 7:53 of the third for the host Wings, with Connor Burk giving Weyburn the lead at 15:49.
Kailum Gervais tied the game at 19:17, pushing the teams to a five-minute period of four-on-four hockey, which did not determine a winner.
The game went to the shoot-out where Yorkton emerged the winner 3-2.
Matt Kustra had the win in the Terrier nets facing 39-shots.
Jack Burgart took the loss for the Wings facing 25-shots.
聽Home ice encounter
Saturday Nipawin visited the Farrell Agencies Arena jumping out to a 1-0 lead through 20-minutes of action on a goal by Blake Fournier.
Yorkton native Brett Harasymuk made it 2-0 with a short-handed effort 15:30 into the second.
Regan Seiferling finally put the Terriers on the board with a goal 16:11 in the second, only to have Evan Mignault restore a two-goal lead for Nipawin at 18:14.
Jordan Evans scored for the Terriers at 11:38 of the third, but again the Hawks restored a two-goal lead at 13:19, to put away a 4-2 win.
Michael Barabash earned the win the Hawks bent facing 31-shots.
Kustra took the loss facing 23-shots.
Terrier head coach Trent Cassan said consistency is currently eluding the Terriers, whether that 鈥渋s game-to-game, or period-to-period.鈥�
Saturday鈥檚 loss was an example.
鈥淲e had a lot of energy in the third period,鈥� said Cassan, but there wasn鈥檛 the consistent play through the first and second.
Cassan said the team is still working on making 鈥渋n-game鈥� adjustments, those things the coaches try to change in a period when things are not going well. It is an area the Terrier coach said the team needs to grasp better at times.
鈥淲e鈥檙e going to have to learn how to do that,鈥� he said.
It was also a night where the Terriers would score to get close, and then give up a break away, or make another mistake that gave the Hawks a scoring chance they capitalized on. Cassan said that too is part of the lack of consistency the team is experiencing.
鈥淲e talked about that as a staff,鈥� said Cassan. 鈥溾�� It seemed we get chances and then because of a mistake it was back the other way.鈥�
That said, the Hawks played a good road game, said Cassan,
鈥淣ipawin did a really good job of holding the blue line, and getting into lanes too,鈥� he said.
Up next
Friday the Terriers head down Highway 10 to face rival Melville, with the teams matching up again Saturday at the Farrell Agencies Arena in Yorkton.
With the two teams fighting to stay out of the SJHL basement, Cassan said, 鈥渙bviously they鈥檙e very big games for both teams.鈥� He added the Terriers will spend the week in practice focusing on the two-game set, and how to be consistent through both.
