The Battlefords AAA Stars emerged with a split of their two weekend games with the Tisdale Trojans at the Civic Centre.
They took the Saturday night contest 6-1 but wound up on the wrong end of a 4-1 score on Sunday, snapping a four game win streak.
“Saturday was really good -- played well,” said Stars head coach Norm Johnston.
“The structure was there. Outworked them, did a really good job. Sunday, not quite sure what happened.”
In the Saturday night contest, the Stars got on the board early as Luke Fenning scored from Tye Scherger and Shayde Peterson with 7:25 left in the first. The score was 1-0 Stars through one period.
In the second, with Tyson Tuck in the box for tripping, Cade Hayes tied it on a power play goal from Liam Rotten at the 5:47 mark.
But the Stars scored two more to retake the lead. Fenning scored again from Scherger and Peterson midway through the period, and then Adam Beckman scored from Ty Mosimann and Matthew Flodell with 5:37 left in the frame, and it was 3-1 through two.
In the third the Stars blew the game open, starting with a power-play goal from Peterson from Mosimann and Beckman with 6:56 left. Damon McKenzie fired one into the empty net with over three minutes left, and Mosimann added one more with 51 seconds left to wrap up a 6-1 victory for the Stars.
In the Sunday rematch, Tisdale came out flying in the shots department, but good goaltending by Joseph Young in the Stars’ net kept things scoreless through the first period. Shots on goal through one favored Tisdale 13-8.
Tisdale finally broke the deadlock at the 9:25 mark of the second period as Carter Lake fired it past the Stars goaltender, with Colton Schell assisting.
With 8:53 left Tisdale made it 2-0 as Kaleb Ukrainetz scored from Kaden Kohle.
The Stars finally got on the board with 46 seconds left in the frame. On the power play, Jackson Tonnies scored from Shayde Peterson and Trey Stocker to make it 2-1 through two. But shots heavily favored Tisdale 37-15 after the second period.
In the third period Tisdale broke the game open. Just 1:19 into period three Tisdale restored the two goal lead with Kohle scoring, Ukrainetz getting the assist. At the seven-minute mark they added one more by Cade Hayes, with Landon Kosior assisting.
That would make the final score 4-1. Final shots favored the Trojans 48-26.
Going forward, Johnston said the Stars have “just got to go back to what we were doing the last four hockey games. We won four straight, we lost this one.”
Next action for the Stars is on the road Thursday against the Saskatoon Blazers before two home games Saturday and Sunday against the Yorkton Maulers, both of which will start at 2 p.m.
