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| BCMML Week 13 Recap – Sunday Games Okanagan Rockets 6, West Valley Hawks 4 A second straight third-period comeback propelled the visiting Okanagan Rockets to a 6-4 victory over the West Valley Hawks at the Capital News Centre in Kelowna, BC, on Sunday morning. For the second consecutive day, the BC Major Midget League-leading Rockets (20-3-1) led 3-2 after 40 minutes before the third-place Hawks (15-8-1) rallied on goals by Matt Bradley and Jordan Funk to take a 4-3 advantage in the third period. After the Rockets tied the score on Tanner Campbell’s power-play goal at 8:17 of the third, captain Brendan Wagner scored short-handed with 7:18 remaining to put Okanagan ahead for good. Tyson Jost, the league’s leading scorer, also tallied two goals and an assist for Okanagan and now has 43 points (21 goals, 22 assists) in just 20 games this season. With the victory, the Rockets maintained their four-point cushion over the second-place Vancouver North West Giants (18-3-1) for top spot in the BCMML standings. West Valley now trails Okanagan by 10 points with the back-to-back third-period collapses. Bradley had two goals and two assists for the Hawks, and his 39 points (20 goals, 19 assists) trail only Jost in the BCMML scoring race. Vancouver North West Giants 6, South Island Royals 1 A four-goal second-period outburst snapped a 1-1 tie and gave the Vancouver North West Giants a 6-1 victory over the South Island Royals at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, capping a weekend series sweep. Quinn Benjafield had two goals and an assist for the Giants, and Quinn Thompson also notched two goals. Owen Stout chipped in with a goal and two helpers. Andrew Jack scored the lone goal (his fifth of the year) for the Royals, who are now winless in their last five contests (0-4-1). They have been outscored 23-10 during that stretch, and have won only twice in their past 12 games. Vancouver North East Chiefs 5, Kootenay Ice 1 At Trail Cominco Arena, the Vancouver North East Chiefs defeated the Kootenay Ice by a 5-1 score for the second consecutive day, completing a two-game weekend series sweep. The Chiefs got goals from five different players, with San Chung, Parker Colley, and Lucas Santucci scoring in the second period to break open a scoreless affair. Matthew Davis and Caleb Fantillo added third-period power-play goals for Vancouver North East to put the game out of reach, while Ryan Neil scored the lone goal for Kootenay in the final period. The loss gave Kootenay its league-leading 17th of the year, and the Ice remain tied with the idle Thompson Blazers for last place in the standings. Both Kootenay (3-17-4) and Thompson (2-14-6) have 10 points apiece. The Ice have also allowed a league-worst 138 goals in 24 games. The Chiefs (11-9-4), meanwhile, moved to within five points of Valley West (15-8-1) for third place. North Island Silvertips 4, Fraser Valley Thunderbirds 2 Carter Turnbull’s two goals were the difference for North Island as the Silvertips defeated the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds 4-2 at Nanaimo Ice Centre on Sunday morning. Rowan Siider and Matthew Cahill each had two assists for the Silvertips, and Lewis Bo and Joe Surgenor scored North Island’s other two goals. Nicholas Ponak and Hayden Guilderson each had a goal and an assist for the reeling Thunderbirds, who have won just once in their last six games (1-4-1). North Island, meanwhile, snapped a five-game winless skid with the victory, ending a streak which saw them go 0-3-2 including a 6-6 tie with Fraser Valley the night before. Greater Vancouver Canadians 10, Cariboo Cougars 2 Dante Hannoun’s two goals and four assists led the way as the Greater Vancouver Canadians earned a split in their weekend series with the Cariboo Cougars, winning 10-2 on Sunday afternoon at the CN Centre in Prince George, BC. Braeden Gurney also contributed a hat trick and an assist for the Canadians, who improved to 12-11-1 this season. The outcome was never in doubt as the Canadians exploded for five goals in the opening period, with Gurney scoring twice and Hannoun, Alex Whitwham, and Jordan Deyrmenjian adding single tallies in the game’s first 20 minutes. Gurney’s four-point afternoon gave him 26 points (nine goals, 17 assists) in 24 games this season, and Hannoun now has 32 points (15 goals, 17 assists) in 22 contests. Whitwham also had three assists in the contest for a four-point game, and Deyrmenjian added his second goal of the afternoon in the second period. Specialty teams dominated this game as both of Cariboo’s goals came on the power play, and Greater Vancouver scored four times with the man advantage and also added a short-handed goal. |
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| BCMML Week 13 Recap – Saturday Games Okanagan Rockets 5, West Valley Hawks 4 Kristan Blumenschein and Tanner Wishnowski scored in the final three minutes of the game as the visiting Okanagan Rockets stunned the West Valley Hawks with a 5-4 victory at the Capital News Centre in Kelowna, BC, on Saturday night. The league-leading Rockets (19-3-1) led 3-2 after 40 minutes before the third-place Hawks (15-7-1) rallied for two goals in a 1:03 span midway through the third period. The Rockets, however, tied the game at the 17:00 mark of the third when Blumenschein scored his third goal of the campaign. The game appeared destined to finish in a tie with time running out, but Wishnowski tallied his second goal of the contest—his seventh of the year—with only 48 seconds remaining, giving Okanagan the stunning victory. The win moved the Rockets eight points ahead of the Hawks for top spot in the BC Major Midget League standings. Vancouver North West Giants 5, South Island Royals 1 At Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, Owen Stout scored twice to lead the Vancouver North West Giants to a 5-1 victory over the host South Island Royals. Callahan Brebner had two assists for the Giants, and Dante Fabbro added a goal and two assists, as Vancouver North West (17-3-1) kept pace with first-place Okanagan. With the win, the Giants remained four points back of the Rockets for top spot in the BCMML standings. The loss, meanwhile, dropped the Royals to 8-12-3, tied for eighth place. Eddy Keenan scored the lone goal for South Island. Vancouver North East Chiefs 5, Kootenay Ice 1 At Trail Cominco Arena, Caleb Fantillo scored twice to lead the Vancouver North East Chiefs to a 5-1 victory over the struggling Kootenay Ice, sending the home team to its league-leading 16th loss of the season. Ziyan Karim had two assists for the Chiefs, and captain Connor Burk added a goal and an assist, allowing Vancouver North East to move a game over the .500 mark at 10-9-4. The game was tied 1-1 after 40 minutes before the Chiefs erupted for four goals in the final period, including San Chung’s go-ahead score just 50 seconds into the third. Coy Prevost, the leading scorer for the Ice, tallied his sixth goal of the year but Kootenay dropped to 3-16-4 and remained tied for last place with the idle Thompson Blazers (2-14-6). Fraser Valley Thunderbirds 6, North Island Silvertips 6 At Nanaimo Ice Centre, Brice Sharp and captain Austin Wellsby scored in the final eight minutes of the third period as the visiting Fraser Valley Thunderbirds rallied for a 6-6 tie with the North Island Silvertips. With North Island ahead 6-4, Sharp scored his eighth goal of the year at 12:14 of the third period to cut the deficit to one, before Wellsby got his 11th of the season with 5:37 remaining to salvage the tie for the Thunderbirds. Joe Surgenor scored twice for the Silvertips (8-11-4), who remained a point ahead of Fraser Valley (8-12-3) for sixth place. Cariboo Cougars 3, Greater Vancouver Canadians 2 At Fort Forum Arena in Fort St. James, BC, Jesse Roach scored two goals and had an assist, as the Cariboo Cougars defeated the Greater Vancouver Canadians 3-2. Colton Thomas had a goal and an assist, and Steven Jandric added two helpers for the Cougars. Cariboo led 2-0 after two periods before Braeden Gurney put the Canadians on the scoreboard 2:56 into the final stanza. Canadians captain Scott Munro tied things up 1:30 later, but Roach got his second goal of the game with only 1:17 remaining to give the Cougars (9-12-2) their ninth win of the season. The loss dropped the Canadians to 11-11-1. |
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