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TUESDAY TICKER

The line of Jake Gudjonson (2g), Ty Budai (1g-2a) and Ty Budai (3a) combined for eight points and the La Ronge Ice Wolves opened a four game road trip with a 3-1 win in Melville.

Liam McGarva picked up the win making 29/30 saves for the Ice Wolves (27-18-3-2), who sit alone in fifth in the overall standings, breaking a tie with Melfort, but didn’t gain much ground with Nipawin and Yorkton also picking up points on Tuesday.

The Ice Wolves out-shot Melville 46-30, as Berk Berkeliev made 43/46 saves for the Millionaires (15-28-2-4) and Jake Spak got them on the board.

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The Yorkton Terriers grabbed the extra point in a third place battle with Nipawin, edging the Hawks 5-4 in a shootout.

That moves the Terriers (30-19-1-1) two points up on the Hawks for third in the overall standings.  Alec Zawatsky (1g-1a), Brett LeGrandeur, Keenan Taphorn and Carson Henry did the scoring and Kaeden Taphorn scored the shootout winner.  Philippe Bond made 27/31 saves and stopped 5/6 in the shootout.

Brodie Girod scored two third period goals for the Hawks (28-19-3-1), tying the game with his second, with just 13 seconds left in the game.  Burke Simpson and Jordan Simoneau added the others.

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Matthew Fletcher scored the overtime winner and the Battlefords North Stars inched closer to locking down the number one playoff seed with a  4-3 (OT) win over Notre Dame.

Jaxon Steele had a goal and an assist while Austin Becker and Seth Summers also scored in regulation, and Austin Schwab made 29/32 saves in the victory for the Stars (42-8-2-0).

Braydon Iwaschuk scored twice for the Hounds (17-27-3-2) and Ben Hamilton had the other.  Logan Dyck was busy, stopping 45 of the 49 shots he faced in the OT loss.