YORKTON - The Yorkton Terriers should be smiling following a weekend road set of games versus the Battlefords North Stars.
The teams hit the ice at the Access Communications Centre Friday for the first of the games and the Terrier offence was clicking.
Dustin Renas opened things for Yorkton scoring the only goal of the opening frame, a pow-erplay effort at 6:21.
The teams would trade middle stanza markers with Keenan Ingram for the Terriers at 6:38, and a powerplay effort by Brett Boucher for the Stars at 8:29.
In the third the Terriers went on something of a scoring binge.
Jye Zawatsky started things with one just 57-seconds into the period.
Then Jason Desnoyers scored on the powerplay at 4:31, and Aiden Knutson added one at 6:15, and the Terriers were up 5-1.
Braden Nienaber finally responded with a goal for the home team, a powerplay effort at the 15-minute mark to give the local fans hope.
But an unassisted powerplay goal by David Coyle at 16:23 and a final goal by Dustin Renas at 17:53 salted away a 7-2 Terrier win.
Ethan Farrow was in the Yorkton net facing 37-shots, while Justin Maric was peppered with 43 in the Battlefords net being tagged with the loss.
The teams went at again Saturday in a game which proved to be a much closer affair.
In this one the Stars would lead after the opening period, sandwiching a powerplay effort by Terrier William Leonard at 5:30, between two of their own. Branden Nienaber started things at 3:25 and Gavin Granger added a powerplay goal at 8:02.
The middle frame though turned the Terriers’ way.
Goals by Jye Zawatsky at 4:22, Tyler Pallin at 12:23 and Jaron Desnoyers at 15:34 and the Terriers led 4-2 through 40-minutes of play.
But the third was the home team’s as Nienaber with his second of the game at the five-minute mark, and one by Colton Getzlaff knotted the game at 4-4.
The five-minute, three-on-three overtime settled nothing, sending the contest to a shoot-out won by the Terriers to record a 5-4 win.
Ethan Farrow was in net for Yorkton facing 50-shots, while Connor Baumach took the loss for the Stars facing 38.
The two wins lift the Terrier record to 12-7 for 24-points, one back of Weyburn with 25 in the Viterra Division standings. Melville sits third with 22 points, with Estevan a distant fourth with 12 points.
Next action for Yorkton sees the team welcome Melfort to the Westland Insurance Arena Tuesday, Nov. 19, and then Melville visits Friday, Nov.22, with the teams back in the Mills’ barn Saturday, Nov. 23.
