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St. Walburg, Wilkie look for league titles over weekend

The St. Walburg Eagles have another chance to win the North Saskatchewan River Hockey League title Friday. Last weekend the Meadow Lake Stampeders avoided losing the championship on home ice with a 5-4 overtime win in game five.
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The St. Walburg Eagles have another chance to win the North Saskatchewan River Hockey League title Friday.

Last weekend the Meadow Lake Stampeders avoided losing the championship on home ice with a 5-4 overtime win in game five.

The day before, the Eagles skated to a 5-1 win.

Kevin Nasby scored twice while Cole Fern, Kelly Leer and Brady Zerr added goals for the Eagles.

Randy Larre, Leer and Travis Nasby each had a pair of assists, while Zach Wourms, Fern, Zerr and Brad Gehl all added an assist.

Bryan Bridges collected the win in goal for St. Walburg.

Chris Nault scored the only goal from the Stampeders from Logan Pethick.

Jeff Vidal took the loss allowing all five goals.

The Eagles had built a comfortable 4-0 lead heading into the final frame before the Stampeders finally solved Bridges.

In game five Jorden Iron took it upon himself to extend the series as he scored four times and added an assist in the 5-4 win.

DJ King scored the other goal for Meadow Lake while adding three assists on Iron’s goals.

Jarrett Aschenbrenner had three assists as well.

Cullen Morin had a pair of helpers while Bryce Neufeld chipped in with one assist.

The winning goal came just four minutes into extra time.

For the Eagles, Fern had a goal and an assist and Gehl scored once and assisted on two others.

Kevin and Travis Nasby each scored, while Leer and John Larre had single assists.

Game six is in St. Walburg and if the Stampeders can fend off elimination for the second straight game, game seven will be Saturday in Meadow Lake.

Meantime the Wilkie Outlaws look to finish off the Kindersley Red Lions Friday.

After winning game three 6-1, they can wrap up the Sask. West League championship with a win on the road.

The Outlaws jumped out to the series lead March 3 when they downed Kindersley 5-1.

The Red Lions answered back in a big way in game two, with a decisive 7-2 victory.

The Outlaws came out firing in game three, and heavily outshot the Red Lions by a 43-19 margin by games end.

Just over 12 minutes into the first, Lorne Griffiths got Wilkie on the board from Barett Penner and Robert Keller.

Kindersley answered quickly when Josh Sim scored from Brandon Cummings and Patrick Omness two minutes later.

Rick Cey restored the Outlaws lead 14 seconds after Sim’s goal with the help of Will Rathje and Mike Sittler.

In the second Brett Schell and Cey scored six minutes apart to give the Outlaws a 4-1 lead after two.

Rory Gregoire and Brock Harrison assisted on Schell’s goal, while Derek Keller and Schell combined for Cey’s second of the night.

In the third Harrison scored a goal of his own from Mark Lorenz midway through the period.

Lorenz then finished off the scoring from Blake Bannerman and Schell two minutes later.

Jared Herle stopped 18 shots for the win, while Josh Thorimbert made 37 saves for Kindersley.

The two teams had a long break inbetween games two and three, with nine days off in between.

If Kindersley wins Friday, the date for game five as yet to be determined.


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