Well, at least one Argos team full in Saskatchewan sports scene Sunday.
While the Saskatchewan Roughriders came up short against the Toronto Argonauts Sunday afternoon, the Estevan Apex Bruins defeated the Notre Dame Argos 5-4 in overtime Sunday evening in South Saskatchewan Midget AA Hockey League action, putting the Bruins in a three way tie for first place. Jaiden Gervais' marker at 2:27 of the extra frame gave the Bruins the win.
“We just have a really resilient bunch,” said Bruins head coach Robin Ulrich, whose team also defeated the Argos the night before at Notre Dame. “There's been multiple games over the last little while where we're either down and we keep finding ways to keep coming back or here today, adversity being up and having the lead slip away a few times.”
The Bruins had played well in a 4-4 tie late in a game until captain Daymon Wanner took a penalty for interference on the goaltender with six seconds left in regulation. After the Bruins killed that penalty in overtime, they ended up scoring the winner, with Wanner and Triston Seeman picking up the assists.
The Bruins' own power play performed well earlier in the game, with Wanner claiming a pair of goals in the second period.
“it's our third game in a row against them so we knew we had to give them a couple of different looks,” said Ulrich. “We just wanted to create more options and the boys did a good job of moving the puck and finding some open lanes.”
Carson Benning and Cale Adams scored the team's other goals, with Terran Holzer scoring three assists.
“We had a couple of (penalty) kills that we needed to kill off and we were kind of panicking,” said Holzer. “We had to get the puck out and give it our all trying to kill those penalties off.”
Logan Nagel got the win in net.
Saturday, the Bruins got their goals from Adams, Benning and Carson Schaff with a pair. Bryson Garton got the win in net.
The Bruins have now won nine of their last ten in league action.
“We've definitely come a long way since the start of our season,” Holzer said.
The Bruins have the weekend off of league action but get ready for a pair of games Dec. 2 against Yorkton (8 p.m. at Affinity Place) and Dec. 3 against Lumsden/Bethune (5:15 p.m. at Affinity Place).
