The Yorkton Terriers wrapped up the regular season with a pair of wins, one on the road and one at home to hold on to first place in the SJHL Sherwood Conference going into the playoffs.
The Terriers opened the week with a 6-5 overtime win over the Estevan Bruins at the Civic Auditorium in Estevan.
Ryan Ostertag opened the scoring with a power play goal early in the first period to give the Bruins a one goal lead.
Jeremy Boyer evened things up assisted by Craig Eisenhut and Zak Majkowski.
Josh Jelinski slipped one past Terrier goalie Warren Shymko to send the teams to the dressing rooms with the Bruins hanging on to a tenuous one goal lead after 20 minutes.
Ostertag notched his second of the game to give the Bruins a two goal margin.
Eisenhut pulled Yorkton within one late in the second frame assisted by Devon McMullen.
Ostertag scored his hat trick with an early third period marker to hand Estevan a two goal lead.
Calder Neufeld capped the scoring for the Bruins, giving Estevan what appeared to be an insurmountable three goal lead.
A three goal third period rally kept the Terriers in the game, tying the contest and setting up the overtime win.
Justin Lamontagne started the third period scoring spree a little past the mid point of the final frame assisted by Kyle McLeod.
Robbie Ciolfi narrowed the Bruins' margin to one goal assisted by Clarke Breitkreuz.
Boyer scored his second goal of the game, a singlehanded marker with less than a minute left in regulation time to tie up the game.
Terrier defenseman Kurtis Decker, scored the clutch goal with one second remaining in the five minute overtime period to hand Yorkton the narrow 6-5 win, assisted by Breitkreuz.
The Terriers capped their amazing season with a 5-2 win over the visiting, league leading LaRonge Ice Wolves Friday night at the Farrell Agencies Arena.
The Wolves took an early lead as Travis Eggum lit up the scoreboard just 24 seconds into the first period.
Majkowski tied the game late in the frame assisted by Boyer before Marc Andre Carre's goal with about a minute and a half left in the period re-established the LaRonge lead. That was to be the last Ice Wolves' goal allowed by Terrier netminder Shymko in the game.
Brent Struble pulled Yorkton even early in the second period assisted by Breitkreuz and Ciolfi.
Eisenhut scored a late second period goal assisted by Ciolfi to hand a 3-2 lead to the Terriers.
Jeremy Johnson added to the Terriers lead with a late third period goal assisted by Lamontagne and McMullen.
Breitkreuz iced the Terriers cake with an empty net goal assisted by Brant Remenda and Ciolfi to hand Yorkton a 5-2 win.
The win ties up first place for the Terriers in the SJHL south division.
