The Estevan Apex Bruins were involved in a pair of tight one-goal games on the weekend, winning on Friday and losing on Saturday.
The midget AA club edged the Prairie Storm 6-5, then fell 3-2 to the Regina Wild the next night. Both games were played at Affinity Place.
The Bruins now sit at 3-2-1, which puts them in a tie for fourth place in the South Saskatchewan Minor Hockey League.
Kaelan Holt powered the Bruins to Friday's win, scoring a hat trick and an assist, including the tying and winning goals. Matt Bill (2) and Mitchell Morrison also scored.
Dustin McCormick led the Storm with a hat trick and Garrett Schmidt added two goals.
The Bruins started strong, taking a 3-0 lead after the first period. Bill scored 11 minutes into the frame, followed by a Morrison goal 43 seconds later. Bill would score again with 1:36 to play before the intermission.
It was all visitors in the second period though, as they stormed back with four straight goals. McCormick scored his first of three power play goals in the period at 6:47, and Schmidt got the Storm within one halfway through the period.
McCormick went on to score two goals in a span of four minutes to give the Storm the lead.
Holt tied it 4-4 with less than two minutes to go in the period.
The Storm got back on top 38 seconds into the third period on Schmidt's second goal, but Holt would get that one back five minutes later.
Later, with the clock winding down and the game still tied, Holt fired the winner with 1:26 left in regulation.
On Saturday, the Wild scored three times in the second period and held on for the win.
Fraiser Belanger (2) and Malik Henry had Regina's goals, while Bill and Kyle Salaway countered for Estevan.
Bill had the lone goal in the first period, coming early at the 2:17 mark on a power play.
Henry scored less than three minutes into the second period to tie the game, but Salaway responded six minutes later to put the Bruins ahead again.
Belanger scored his first goal less than two minutes after that, at the 10:23 mark, and scored the winner with 2:30 left in the period.
The third period was scoreless.
The Bruins are home again on Sunday, with the Notre Dame Hounds coming to town. Puck drop is at 3:30 p.m. at Affinity Place. The Bruins then head to Balgonie on Sunday for a rematch with the Storm.
