The Yorkton Teriers have pushed the Notre Dame Hounds to the brink of elimination as they defeated the Notre Dame 3-2 in OT to take a 3-1 series in this Best of 7 Quarter-Final series.
In the 1st, the Terriers/ Hounds would be playing once again a very tight period here at the Olympic sized Duncan McNeil Arena as neither team wanted to give up the first goal of the evening and neither team did in the opening period as it was a scoreless opening frame with shot margin also very tight with a 13-12 shot edge for the Hounds.
The Terriers took an early penalty to start the middle frame but on that initial powerplay, it would be the Terriers' getting the best chance and they would convert as the birthday boy Riley Hunt (turned 19 years old) would take a nice feed behind the Hounds defence and go in alone with Alexi Thibedeau and slip it five-hole for his 2nd goal of the postseason to give the Terriers an early 1-0 lead. It would stay like that until the 12:12 mark of the 2nd period, as the Kramer Division Player of the Year Sam Aulie would go top shelf on Kale Thomson for his 3rd goal of the playoffs to give his team the equalizer, and make it a deadlocked 1-1 game after 40 minutes.
In the final frame, both teams would have their chances of trying to get the go ahead early on but were unsuccessful and then it would be the home team getting the go ahead marker as Andrew Cummings would bang home a loose puck by Kale Thomson for his 2nd goal of the series to give the Hounds a 2-1. So the Hounds would look to get the home ice victory with the lead, but that evaporate as Tanner Lischynsky back hander would slip past the Hounds net minder for his 1st SJHL playoff goal to even it up at 2-2 heading into the overte.
Early on in the overtime period, it would be the Hounds getting a great chance when Cory Anderson would feed across on a 2 on 1 over to Dion Antisin but he was robbed by Thomson. Then just shotty after a an unsuccessful Terriers powerplay, Jordan Ross (pictured above) would step over the Hounds line and let a shot go that would go through Thibedeaus glove to give the Terriers the thrilling 3-2 OT win.
Kale Thomson stopped 31 shots for the win, while Alexi Thibedeau made 36 saves in a losing cause.
The Terriers will look to wrap things up in Game 5 tomorrow night (Fri) at the FAA. Pregame 7:20, pxp at 7:30 on GX94.
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