The Cougars played a pair of games on the weekend and won over Interlake and then put Central Plains away with a short bench Sunday afternoon. The weekend left them in fifth place tie with a record of 32-12-2 for 66 points tied with the Thrashers in fourth and two behind Yellowhead.
Cougars 6 Interlake 3
Jordan Boyechko got back on the score sheet with help from Hunter Wallace and Braeden Lewis. The Lightning tied the score before the period ended.
The Cougars pounced twice in the second with Lewis finding the net from Wallace and Trevor Hunt. Myles Sobry and Wallace finished the second period scoring before the ten-minute mark of the period.
Interlake scored early in the third with the man advantage to make it 3-2. The Cougars then scored three times in four minutes as Braeden Lewis scored at the four-minute mark from Wallace and Boyechko, and then found the net two minutes later with Zach Turner getting the helper. Kain Shearer then decided to get in on the fun when he went down the right side and wired one off the post and in, unassisted. The Lightning finished the scoring at the 12-minute mark with another power play marker. Christopher Fines faced 41 shots in the Lightning net while Kieran Stewart faced 25 in the Cougar net for the win
Cougars 7 Central Plains 4
The teams had short benches with the Caps destined to finish eighth and the Cougars now lower than fifth with a pair of games to go. Andrew Andries sat out the second game of suspension, Brayden Know was in Mexico, Dexter Whittle was out with an upper body injury, and Myles Sobry left the game with an upper body injury.
Cody Blight opened the scoring, one minute in, when he went around the Cougar defence and scored an unassisted marker. Nolan Wickham got the lead back when he hooked up with Boyechko and Hunter Wallace at the 13-minute mark. Owen Harris then scored a minute later from Cody Gudnason for the 3-1 lead. The Caps tied the game before the period ended.
Matthew Ramsey found the net at the three-minute mark. Zach Turner hooked up with Wallace and Lewis at 11:39 and Boyechko scored from Jacob Dolomont eight seconds later for the 5-2 lead. The Caps narrowed the gap a minute later on the power play.
The third saw Nolan Wickham score his second of the game from Gudnason three minutes in and the Caps responded on the man advantage at the five-minute mark. The Cougars finished the scoring when Boyechko got the puck off the wall in the Capitals end and fed Wallace who fed the empty net goal.
Carson McVickar and Rhett Boschman faced 34 Cougars shots while Eric Reid turned aside 19 Cap shots.
