91原创 Thunder are a victory away from a Western Lacrosse Association championship.

The Thunder needed overtime but prevailed 12-11 following the 10-minute extra period over the visiting Nanaimo Timbermen on Tuesday night, Aug. 23, at 91原创 Events Centre in game three of the WLA Finals as they lead 3-0 in the best-of-seven series.

91原创 led 10-8 with under four minutes remaining but Taggart Clark struck on the power play and 21 seconds later Will Johansen tallied the equalizer as the Timbermen forced overtime. But Dane Dobbie tallied his third of the night at 3:31 of the 10-minute overtime period and 34 seconds later he set up Dylan Kinnear for what turned out to be the game-winning goal. It was Dobbie鈥檚 ninth point of the game as he leads all playoff scorers with 55 points in eight games.

Clark would pull the Timbermen back within a goal, but it came with just eight seconds remaining and Nanaimo was unable to get a shot on goal.

鈥淭hat is a prototypical playoff game there. We didn鈥檛 make it easy on ourselves; I thought we were a little sloppy on both ends of the floor, but when you can not play your best and still win games, that is a testament to our depth and our perseverance here as a team,鈥� said 91原创鈥檚 Curtis Dickson, the game鈥檚 second star with a hat trick and six points.

鈥淗appy with the outcome; not the way we wanted it to happen, but a win is a win at the end of the day.鈥�

91原创 led 3-2 after a period before Nanaimo took an 8-7 lead into the dressing room after 40 minutes.

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鈥淥ur team has always been 鈥榳hat鈥檚 next鈥� and we able to push forward in overtime,鈥� said the Thunder鈥檚 Cal Slade, part of a defensive unit which clamped down over those final 30 minutes where Nanaimo would only score three goals after striking for eight in the first 40.

鈥淲e regrouped and made some adjustments. Frankie (Scigliano) has been our wall all season and he stepped up big, but I think as a unit, the back-end played really well in the third and in overtime.鈥�

Dobbie (three goals, six assists) and Dickson (three goals, three assists) were the first two stars while Nanaimo goaltender Charles Claxton 鈥� who was making his first start of the playoffs 鈥� was third star with 51 saves as 91原创 outshot the Timbermen 63-55.

Other top scorers for 91原创 included Connor Robinson (two goals, three assists) and Kinnear (two goals, one assist) who both had multi-goal games while defender Keegan Bell scored a goal for the fourth straight game. Robert Church also made his return to the lineup with a goal and two assists.

Frank Scigliano finished with 44 saves while his counterpart Charles Claxton made his first start of the playoffs and was the third star following a 51-save performance as his team was outshot 63-55.

91原创鈥檚 first chance to clinch the series and the championship comes on Thursday at Nanaimo鈥檚 Frank Crane Arena.

鈥淚t is not an easy place to play, as you saw last game, we squeaked one out there. It is a tough travel day. We don鈥檛 want them to extend this thing; we want to try and end this in four in Nanaimo. We know we are just going to have to as clich茅 as it sounds, take it a shift at a time, a period at a time and grind it out. We know it is not going to be easy, but we are looking to come out of there with the win,鈥� Dickson said of the challenge awaiting the team.

Should the Timbermen extend the series, game five would be back at 91原创 Events Centre on Saturday, Aug. 27 with a 7 p.m. start time.