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Highway #10 match-up to end SJ schedule

The regular Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season wrapped up for Highway #10 rivals Yorkton and Melville tonight with a game in the Millionaires home arena. Melville hit the board early with a goal from Luke Nkwama at 2:11 of the first period.
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The regular Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season wrapped up for Highway #10 rivals Yorkton and Melville tonight with a game in the Millionaires home arena.

Melville hit the board early with a goal from Luke Nkwama at 2:11 of the first period.

The Hyundai Terriers knotted the score at the 13-minute mark, when Vaughn Watterodt scored his first of the season.

The 1-1 tie would hold through the remainder of the first period, and then through a scoreless middle stanza.

In the third period Colby Lubachowski scored the eventual game-winner for Melville at 9:45.

Zach McIntyre added an empty-netter at 19:51 to make it a 3-1 final in favour of the Millionaires.

Matthew Pesenti was in the Terrier nets facing 33-shotsin the loss.

Berk Berkeliev was the Mills’ netminder facing 46-shots for the win.