The TS&M Bruins got back on track with three wins on a busy weekend.
The bantam AA club defeated the Regina Aces 8-5 on Friday in Regina, then beat the Moose Jaw Warriors 3-1 on Saturday and torched the Swift Current Raiders 9-2 on Sunday. The final two games were played at Affinity Place.
The Bruins (12-12) sit in fourth place in the South Division of the Saskatchewan Bantam AA Hockey League.
On Sunday, the Raiders actually scored first and were tied 2-2 with the Bruins after the first period, but then the Bruins offence exploded for seven unanswered goals over the final two periods.
Mason Strutt and Cole Fonstad scored for the Bruins in the first period, while Tanner Kendall replied with two goals for the Raiders.
In the second, the Bruins took a 5-2 lead on two goals by Carson Benning and another by Kersey Reich.
In the third period, Benning and Fonstad completed hat tricks and Strutt also scored.
Shots on goal were 32-18 for Estevan.
Saturday's game was not nearly as high scoring.
The Bruins took a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Hayden Cutler and J.D. Gervais, but Moose Jaw's Hayden Wiebe made it 2-1 late in the period.
Reich scored midway through the second on a power play to extend the Bruins' lead.
Shots on goal were 36-28 for the Warriors.
On Friday, the Bruins dominated the first half of the game, scoring the first six goals and taking a 7-2 lead after two periods.
Strutt, Fonstad, Cutler and Terran Holzer scored in the first to put Estevan ahead 4-0.
Fonstad and Daymon Wanner scored additional goals early in the second to make it 6-0.
The Aces then got two of their own from Lukas Sillinger, but Estevan's Colton Schell would score a power play goal with just one second remaining in the period to make it 7-2.
Gervais closed out the Bruins' scoring early in the third.
After that, the Aces scored three straight goals, provided by Nathan Halvorsen, Kyle Cowell and Eric Houk.
The Bruins are back in action this weekend. They host the Regina Monarchs on Friday at 8 p.m. at Affinity Place, then on Saturday they visit the Notre Dame Hounds.
