One of the new Yorkton Novice Hockey League clubs hit the road this weekend as the Yorkton Clean Spot Terriers headed to the Whitewood Novice Tournament to test their mettle outside of the YNHL. The Clean Spot Terriers won three straight games to win the Whitewood Novice Tournament in impressive fashion.
The weekend started with a close game against Ezterhazy that nearly derailed the weekend in the opening game of the tournament. Four goals from Reid Pfeifer, and scoring from Madix Vitkauskas and Daxton Kulcsar lifted the Clean Spot Terriers to a 6-5 down to the wire victory and kept their championship hopes alive setting up a meeting with the hosts. Pfeifer once again came up huge for the Terriers scoring five goals with a single from Josh Needham and an assist by Chet Ostapowich contributing to a 6-1 Terriers win over the hosts.
Winning both games in their pool moved the Terriers to the gold medal game where they met the Ochapowace Thunder. In this game Ostapowich came up huge for the Terriers with five goals while Pfeifer added a goal and three assists to continue his clutch play on the weekend Emma Edel had three assists, and Owen Bahrey and Chance Happy each had an assist each as the Terriers took the final 6-2. Dray Sobkow was given praise for being strong in net throughout the whole tournament in the wins. Reid Pfiefer was arguably their best player all tournament with Chet Ostapowich coming close in filling a role as a setup man in the first two games then filling in with five timely goals in the final.
The Clean Spot Terriers will break for the Christmas holidays before continuing with the YNHL program, practicing with the league's other four teams and regular season action. Their season will continue until February and wrap up with a YNHL playoff.
