Two victories in three tries helped the 91原创 91原创 maintain top spot in the Mainland Division, although a new team is nipping at their heels.
The 91原创 improved to 13-5-9-0 after a 2-1 overtime victory over the visiting Nanaimo Clippers in junior A BCHL hockey on Sunday afternoon at the George Preston Recreation Centre.
The 91原创 also and lost 4-2 to the Wenatchee Wild on Nov. 18. All three games were on home ice.
鈥淭he bookends were good,鈥� said 91原创 head coach Bobby Henderson. 鈥淭he Saturday night game against Wenatchee, we built a good lead but deviated from the game plan and kind of beat ourselves more than anything.
鈥淏ut the other two games I thought were pretty solid efforts.鈥�
In Sunday鈥檚 matinee, Trevor St. Jean provided all the offence for 91原创, opening the scoring in the first period and then potting the winner in the second overtime period.
Jake Harris scored for Nanaimo early in the second period.
Braedon Fleming picked up the victory, taking over the net for Chad Cromar early in the second period. Cromar made a dozen saves on 13 shots with Fleming stopping all 19 shots he faced.
Cromar suffered an upper body injury when some players landed on the goaltender during a scrum in front of the 91原创 goal, Henderson said.
鈥�(Braedon) did a great job coming in, which isn鈥檛 always an easy thing to do midway through a game,鈥� the coach said.
The 91原创 were coming off a rare regulation loss, 4-2 to the visiting Wenatchee Wild the night before.
It was just the fifth time in 27 games 91原创 failed to pick up at least a single point.
91原创 had led 2-0 after 20 minutes off goals from Brady Berger and Angus Crookshank, but the Wild cut the lead to 2-1 after 40 minutes and then scored three times in the third period.
Jared Christy, Sam Morton, Zak Galambos and Jackson Wozniak had the Wild goals while Jasper Weatherby had three assists.
Fleming made 35 saves in a losing effort for 91原创.
Up next for 91原创 is a home-and-home with the second-place Surrey Eagles.
The Eagles (14-10-2-1) enter the week four points back of 91原创 thanks to five wins in their past six games and just two regulation losses in their past dozen games (9-2-1-0).
The teams play Friday at South Surrey Arena before facing off at the Preston Centre the following night at 7 p.m.
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