The Estevan Apex Bruins won their last two games of the regular season on the weekend, locking up the fourth seed in the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Saskatchewan Minor Hockey League entering the playoffs.
The midget AA squad ends the regular season with a record of 19-11-6 after beating the Regina Capitals 5-2 on Friday and the Prairie Storm 6-3 on Saturday.
Estevan will start the playoffs against either Lumsden/Bethune, the Regina Wild or Regina Flames, depending on the outcome of those teams' last few games.
On Saturday at Spectra Place, the Bruins scored two goals in each period to double up the Storm.
Zach Paxman and Brad Tomiski scored in the first eight minutes of the first period to give the Bruins a quick lead.
But Bryant Watson and Logan Foushe would respond 91 seconds apart in the last five minutes of the period to tie it up heading into the intermission.
Ryan Frehlick put Estevan ahead again 51 seconds into the second, and Dylan Herzberg added a power play marker late in the period to make it 4-2.
But Foushe scored again with 27 seconds left to pull the Storm within a goal before the buzzer.
The Bruins would extend their lead in the third period, with Paxman scoring his second midway through the period, and Travis Holma adding a sixth goal with three minutes to play.
Cody Murray was in goal for the Bruins.
In Regina on Friday, the Bruins scored three goals in the second period to break the game open.
Tomiski and the Capitals' Brandon Derkson had swapped goals in the first period.
Frehlick and Herzberg scored six minutes apart in the first half of the second period, and the Bruins got a fourth goal from Steven Henderson at 12:40 on the power play.
Kyle Lucier scored the Capitals' second goal with less than two minutes to go in the frame. The lone goal in the third came from Paxman with 9:20 left in regulation.
Levi Eiteneier handled the goaltending duties for Estevan.
