Tyson Witala scored twice and set up a pair of goals and the power play went 3-for-4 as the 91原创 91原创 eliminated the Surrey Eagles in the BCHL鈥檚 Mainland Division semifinal series.
of the best-of-seven series on Tuesday (March 11) at the South Surrey Arena, winning the series four games to two.
The teams had traded wins in the first four games before 91原创 won 3-0 on March 10 at the 91原创 Events Centre in game five and then closed out the series in game six.
Evan Anderson had the only goal of the first period and Viktor Dombrovskiy 鈥� on the power play 鈥� doubled the lead to 2-0 midway through the second. The 91原创 took control with a pair of goals from Witala 2:37 apart. The first came with less than two minutes to go in the middle period and the latter was 38 seconds into the third on a power play. The Eagles had taken a penalty at the second-period final buzzer.
Surrey captain Danton Heinen broke Brock Crossthwaite鈥檚 shutout streak with a goal at the four-minute mark. It was the first goal the 91原创 goalie allowed in 104 minutes as he pitched a shutout in the team鈥檚 3-0 game five victory. He had been pulled the previous game after allowing six goals.
鈥淗e was great in both games,鈥� said 91原创 coach Bobby Henderson.
鈥淗e gave us a chance early and got more confidence and was solid all the way through.鈥�
But any momentum the Eagles hoped to get from their goal was quickly gone as Austin Azurdia scored 2:28 later 鈥� his third goal in the past two games.
Darien Craighead rounded out the scoring with another man-advantage goal with less than four minutes to play.
And 91原创 won game six minus its captain, Mitch McLain, who was sitting out the first of his two-game suspension for a goaltender interference penalty in game five.
鈥淭hat is what has happened all year,鈥� Henderson said about others stepping up.
鈥淲e have pretty good depth and it was good to see a couple of guys who have been relatively snakebitten get on the score sheet.鈥�
