Although a third-period comeback bid wasn't enough for the Estevan Apex Bruins on Saturday, they rebounded with their fourth win of the year Sunday.
The midget AA club split their two weekend games, with a 5-3 loss to the Notre Dame Hounds followed by a 7-5 victory over the Prairie Storm.
The Bruins (4-3-1) are now tied for fifth place in the South Saskatchewan Minor Hockey League.
On Sunday, the Bruins got a hat trick from Kyle Salaway and a goal and two assists from Kaelan Holt en route to the road victory.
Salaway scored the game winner with 6:10 remaining in regulation and added an empty netter with 25 seconds left.
The Bruins took a 3-1 lead after the first period. Ryley Giblett got them on the board 6:20 into the game, only for Jason Bruce to tie it for the Storm 32 seconds later.
Blaine Herzberg and Salaway would score 52 seconds apart later in the period.
Holt added to that lead 1:36 into the second period, three minutes before Dustin McCormick trimmed it to 4-2.
Jared Steier got the Storm within a goal eight minutes into the period, and it stayed 4-3 until Bailey Lonsberry gave the Bruins a bigger cushion with a minute to go.
Bruce had his second goal of the game for the Storm at 3:35 of the third, and McCormick got his late in the period, but Salaway's two goals in the frame secured the win for Estevan.
On Saturday, it was a completely different story as the Hounds roared to a 4-0 lead after two periods.
In the third, armed with plenty of power play time, the Bruins fired three goals to get back in it, but couldn't get the fourth one. They would go 2-for-12 on the power play.
"The first period, we came out a little flat and they got two power play goals, and we weren't playing that smart. Actually, throughout the game we had enough power play chances, but it never clicked until the third period. It seemed like we were a little too late," said Bruins head coach Dalton Giblett.
The Hounds got goals with the man advantage from Jared Power four minutes into the first and Cam Flinton with 24 seconds left.
They got their third power play marker four minutes into the second period when Connor MacLean, as part of a five-point night, took a pass in the slot and put it behind Bruins netminder Landon Audet.
Notre Dame took a 4-0 lead 10 minutes later on a Ryley Bechard goal from the slot.
"If we put an effort in like we did in the third period, we'll be fine," Giblett said. "It's just getting that consistency. In the first two periods, we couldn't put two good shifts together. We'd have one good shift and then we couldn't do it for another two or three. It kinda took a little momentum out of the game for us."
The Hounds took a double-minor late in the second period and another penalty early in the third, and the Bruins took full advantage.
Giblett scored just 15 seconds into the third, flying into the goalmouth to hammer home a pass from Holt. Then, 81 seconds later, he fired a shot from the point into the back of the net.
"Kaelan Holt made a hell of a pass on the first goal and then Ryley made a good shot on the second," the coach said. "It's not like we didn't have other chances like that. Dylan Lay had how many from the slot and he hasn't scored yet. Once he breaks that egg, things are going to be happening, I hope, for him."
Holt would make it a one-goal game with two minutes to play, scoring on a short-side backhander on a 1-on-1, but that was it for the Bruins, and the Hounds would add an empty netter from MacLean with 13 seconds left.
The Bruins' next regular season game is Nov. 14 in Wilcox against the Hounds.
