The Estevan Apex midget AA Bruins recently picked up seven points in four games and have earned points in seven straight to move up in the standings.
Estevan defeated the Swift Current Hurricanes 6-5 on Feb. 21 and tied the Moose Jaw Warriors 3-3 the following day. They were in Midale when they defeated the Weyburn Red Wings 5-4 on Feb. 19, and they scored four answered goals in a 5-3 home victory against the Notre Dame Hounds.
In the game against Moose Jaw, Josh Skjonsby scored the lone goal in the first period, as he was assisted by Cole Piche and Marc Shaw.
The Warriors would go on to score three straight , leaving the Bruins trailing 3-1 early in the third.
Kolton Ganson and Wyatt Bayliss lit the lamp for the Bruins in the period, but the team couldn’t break the tie. Colton Winton, Matt Bill and Marc Shaw had the assists.
On Saturday, the Hurricanes struck first in the opening period. Twenty-one seconds later Dylan Massicotte scored for the Bruins. Shaw and Skjonsby earned the assists.
Estevan took the lead shortly after when Piche scored, but twenty seconds remaining, Swift Current tied the game at two.
Fifteen seconds into the second period, Shaw regained the lead for Estevan. Kale Martens had the assist.
Swift Current tied the game again and would go on to score another to lead 4-3.
Estevan scored two goals in the first half of the third period to lead 5-4 with 11:47 remaining in the game. Bill and Piche had the goals, and Josh Giblett and Shaw the assists.
Swift Current later tied it up for the third time, and Estevan responded when Mitchell Morrison scored the go-ahead goal.
In the matchup against Weyburn, Estevan fell behind three-and-a-half minutes into the game, but Bill tied it at one midway through the period. Payten Stevenson and Kale Martens assisted the goal.
Estevan scored again as Bill put the Bruins up 2-1. He was assisted by Shaw and Bayliss.
The Bruins earned another goal with 53 seconds left to go up 3-1. Ganson was the scorer, and Skjonsby and Piche had the assists.
In the second period Weyburn scored two consecutive goals to tie the game. Estevan regained the lead after Shaw netted one. Bill and Stevenson had the assists on the play. Bruins led 4-3 after two.
Bill earned a hat trick in the third to put the game away.
During the game on Feb.17, Estevan scored first, when Peyton Stevenson put the puck past the left pad of Riley Higdon in the opening period. Bayliss and Colton Gingras assisted him.
The Hounds would respond later in the period when they tied the game with five seconds remaining in the Bruins’ penalty kill.
In the second, Notre Dame capitalized on the power play again to go up by one. Despite outshooting the Hounds, the Bruins found themselves trailing 3-1 in the first half of the period.
Coach Blake Jamieson told his team to keep driving to the net, and just past the midway point, Massicotte netted one to put the Bruins within one. He was assisted by Preston Brodziak.
With 1:29 remaining in the period Brodziak tied the game at three, with Massicotte and Giblett assisting.
Estevan continued to score in the third as Bayliss gave them the lead. Morrison had the helper.
Estevan added to their lead when Brodziak lit the lamp as the Bruins went up by two.
Jamieson said he has been impressed with the goaltending over the past week.
Estevan concluded their season on Tuesday against Yorkton and will start league playoffs in the upcoming week.
