The Tiger Hills Hockey League began last Friday night when four games took place.
Five games were originally scheduled but the contest between the Deloraine Royals and the Hartney Blues was postponed. This was the second time already that the Royals had a game postponed. The postponed games will be made up on a later date.
The four games that were played saw Souris host Virden, Cartwright travel to Macgregor, Wawanesa in Carberry and Gladstone at Pilot Mound.
VIRDEN OIL KINGS
Souris had first period goals from Joel Schultz, Brett Arbuckle and Troy Kliever as they jumped out to an early 3-0 lead after one period of play. Virden would answer back with one in the second from Drake Bodie but in the third Souris put the game away just one minute and 55 seconds in when Terry Doull scored the fourth Elks goal which proved to be the game winner. Souris won this one 5-3.
Cartwright went to Macgregor but it was not a good night for the visitors. Macgregor was led
by Kelly Rintoull’s hat trick as the Wild scored early and often en route to an 8-1 win.
Josh Tripp had four points for Wawanesa as they got past Carberry 7-2. Only Sean Kubas of Gladstone
had more points on night one. Kubas had seven points as the Lakers defeated the Pilots 10-6.
THREE GAMES SATURDAY
Wawanesa was looking to stay hot when they played host to Minnedosa.
Carberry looked for it's first win of the year when they traveled to Neepawa and the Boissevain Border Kings renewed hostilities in Killarney against the Shamrocks.
Wawanesa and Minnedosa traded first period goals but after that the Jets were grounded and the
Minnedosa Bombers erupted with four goals to skate away with a 5-1 victory. Minnedosa is 1-0 on the season while Wawanesa falls to 1-1.
Garrett Rempel, Daylon Creasy, Benoit Mowbray and Brett Levandoski each had two points for the Neepawa Farmers. Scott Murray and Jackson Stephens had goals for Carberry but it was not enough for the Plainsmen. Neepawa won 5-2.
The Boissevain Border Kings faced off against the Killarney Shamrocks in Killarney. The two teams were scoreless after one period of play then in the second period Brett Opperman opened the scoring for the Shamrocks and the home side led by a goal after two periods. In the third period the Border Kings would tie the game up with a Devon LeBlanc powerplay goal and this one needed overtime! In the extra session David Robertson, the former Estevan Bruin, put home the overtime winner to make the final Boissevain 2, Killarney 1.
NEXT GAMES
An exciting first weekend of THHL action is in the books. Gameplay resumes Nov. 5 when the Border Kings head to Hartney, Carberry is in Macgregor and Killarney hosts Souris. Stay up to date with everything in the Tiger Hills Hockey League on TL Media.
Submitted by Travis Longman
