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Novice Leafs win Weyburn tournament

The Estevan Leafs novice hockey team went undefeated en route to winning a tournament in Weyburn on the weekend. The Leafs won all three of their round-robin games before edging the Weyburn Oilers 3-2 in the final.


The Estevan Leafs novice hockey team went undefeated en route to winning a tournament in Weyburn on the weekend.

The Leafs won all three of their round-robin games before edging the Weyburn Oilers 3-2 in the final.
Boden Dukart scored twice for the Leafs in the championship game on Sunday, with Zack Gedak adding the third marker.

The Oilers scored the only goal of the first period though, with Cooper Walbaum finding the net five minutes in.

Weyburn kept that lead until late in the second period, when Dukart tied the game with 1:42 to play.
Dukart scored again less than eight minutes into the third to give the Leafs their first lead, and Gedak added some insurance just 42 seconds later.

That goal would prove important, as the Oilers got a goal from Caden Dennis with 20 seconds left in regulation.

The Leafs began the tournament on Saturday with a 6-5 win over the Weyburn Lions.

The Lions led 4-2 after the first period, but the Leafs would rebound in the second.

Tensei Iida and Wyatt Ebel potted goals in the first four minutes of the game to put Weyburn ahead 2-0.

Dukart scored midway through the period and Cole Blondeau tied the game for Estevan at the 13:15 mark.

The Lions would quickly retake the lead though, as Darien Herlick and Iida scored in the last five minutes of the period.

Dukart scored three more goals in the second period for a four-goal game.

The first came at the 5:35 mark, and he scored another at 7:49 to draw even with the Lions again.

Josh Kalman lit the lamp midway through the period to put the Lions back on top, but Dukart struck again five minutes later.

Andrew Schmidt scored the winner with five seconds left.

In their second game, the Leafs dumped the Weyburn Penguins 10-3.

Four goals in each of the first and second periods powered the Leafs to victory.

Dukart and Landon Kaban led Estevan with three goals each, while Braxton Dukart, Schmidt, Gedak and Morgan Kjersem added singles.

Quinn Mantei had all three goals for the Penguins, one in each period.

In their final game of the round-robin, the Leafs faced a fellow Estevan team, the Stars. It was another tight game that went down to the final buzzer, as the Leafs won 6-5.

Boden Dukart continued his torrid scoring pace with five of the Leafs' six goals.

He and Denver Sehn of the Stars traded goals in the first period.

Dylan Anderson scored for the Stars midway through the second period to put them on top, but Dukart replied at the 16:30 mark to tie the game.

After a low-scoring 40 minutes, the two teams combined for seven goals in the third period.

Kaban gave the Leafs the lead at 7:15, and Dukart put them ahead by two 90 seconds later.

But the Stars rebounded, with Ty Hoste scoring at the 12-minute mark and Nathan Wagstaff knotting the score again exactly two minutes later.

Dukart scored another goal just 35 seconds after Wagstaff's marker, but again the Stars countered with another goal by Wagstaff with 3:10 left in regulation.

Dukart would score his fifth goal and the game-winner only 40 seconds later, with 2:30 left to play.