Terriers take two in old-fashioned tilts with Mills

The Highway 10 rivalry, SJHL-style, wrote another chapter Friday as the Yorkton Terriers visited the Melville Millionaires.

The newest chapter was one highlighted by goals and referee calls.

The first period certainly went the way the visiting Terriers would have wanted, taking a 4-1 lead.

Logan Cyca started the scoring for Yorkton with a goal 3:22 into the contest.

Carter McKay knotted the score for the Mills, scoring a short-handed effort at 4:06.

A powerplay goal by Ashton Funk 20-seconds later gave the Terriers a 2-1 lead.

Twenty-three seconds later Karsten Kruska made it 3-1, with Pavel Mckenzie adding the fourth Terrier goal at 12:30.

It was a better middle stanza for the home team.

Nathan Fox scored a powerplay marker 1:28 into the period to make 4-2.

Then 7:41 in Aiden Robson scored to cut the Yorkton lead to one.

From there the teams traded one more goal each in the second period.

Greg Nelson scored from Yorkton with Sam Schofield responding for Melville making it 5-4 through 40-minutes.

In the third period the Terriers pulled away with three unanswered goals, in a period where the referees would have nearly worn out their whistles.

The teams would combine to serve 13 roughing penalties, four fighting majors, 13 10-minute misconducts – seven of those assessed at the 20-minute mark, and seven game misconducts.

The calls built on a roughhouse game which in the first two periods included two calls for kneeing, one for a hit to the head – a second was called in the third period, two slashing calls, a checking from behind and two calls for spearing.

Meanwhile there were goals in the final 20-minutes too.

JD Hall scored an unassisted marker at 3:07, with Cohner Saleski matching the unassisted effort at 10:21.

Karsten Kruska rounded out the 8-4 win with a goal at 15:03.

Caleb Allen was in net for the Terriers facing 33-shots in the win, while Clement Labillois guarded the cage for the Millionaires facing 32-shots in the loss.

Back in Yorkton

It was a rare afternoon start for the Terriers, but it proved to their liking as they took a second win in as many days from Melville.

Pavel Mckenzie started things in the SJHL encounter scoring a powerplay goal 2:07 into the contest to give the Terriers a 1-0 lead on Westland Insurance Arena ice.

Karsten Kruska scored a short-handed effort at 11:46 to make it 2-0.

The Millionaires then responded with a pair of powerplay markers to tie the game 2-2. Tucker Buhay struck at 12:05 and Nathan Fox at 18:15.

It was a powerplay effort by Colton Koran at 19:05 that edged the Terriers ahead 3-2 through 20-minutes of play.

In the middle frame

McKenzie scored an unassisted goal for Yorkton at 3:08, only to have Melville respond with a goal by Carter McKay at 5:27, again on the powerplay. McKenzie was back to make it a 5-3 contest with his hat trick completing effort at 8:09.

And, that was it as the third period was a scoreless affair.

Ethan Rau took the loss in net for the Mills facing 33-shots, while Caleb Allen secured the win for Yorkton facing 32-shots.

The Terriers are in action next hosting Humboldt on March 10..