The Battlefords AAA Sharks (7-9-1-0) scored five power play goals in two games to sweep the Melville Fox FM Prairie Fire (3-12-0-3) 3-1, and 3-2 over the weekend.
Saturday, it was the Prairie Fire who got on the board first, when Josée Aitken scored unassisted with 6:37 remaining the opening frame.
Melville had the majority of the chances in the first, as the shots were 11-6 in their favour.
The Sharks answered back 5:10 into the second, as just seven seconds after Sami Jo Henry was called for tripping, Cassidy Fehr scored her first career goal, assisted by Mikayla Phillips to tie the game.
Less than six minutes later, the Sharks were even quicker to score in the power play.
Two seconds after Aitken was penalized for hooking, Sharks captain Jetta Derenoski got the puck past Melville goalie Macey McDonald to give Battlefords the lead after two.
The Sharks increased their lead to 3-1 just over a minute into the final period when Laura Harper picked up her fifth goal of the year. Morgan Fraser was given the only assist.
Shelby Tornato made 26 saves for the win, her fifth of the year.
Sunday, MacKenzie Cey got the opening goal for the Sharks 1:23 into the first period, when off a face-off she went to the net and jammed a puck past McDonald for her third of the year. Derenoski and Kailee McGarry were credited with assists on the power play goal.
The Prairie Fire fought back however, as they scored a pair of goals just 1:29 apart, the second of which was shorthanded, to take a 2-1 lead into the intermission.
The second period saw no scoring, with the shots 11-8 in favour of the Sharks, 25-16 total.
Nearly eight minutes into the final frame, the Sharks knotted the game at two, when Maya Tupper tipped in Fehr's point shot. Emily Wilson was given the second assist on Tupper's third of the year.
Penalty trouble was the story of both games for Melville, and late in the third it cost them again.
31 seconds after Hayley Douglas was charged for interference, MacKenzie Balogh was called for tripping to give the Sharks a 5-on-3 power play.
Just five seconds after the puck dropped, Morgan Crosby let go a rocket from the point, beating McDonald through a screen to give the Sharks the lead for good. Fraser's fourth of the year was assisted by Keara Amson and Tupper.
Chloe Marshall made 23 saves in net for the Sharks, improving her record to 3-7-0-0.
The Sharks now travel to Regina to take on the Rebels (4-5-2-3) this weekend, but not before they have their alumni game Thursday at 5:45 at the Battleford Arena.
