The 100 Mile House Wranglers came out on the short side of a pair of 2-1 scores on home ice on Sept. 27-28.
On Friday night, the Wranglers got off to another slow start against the previously winless Golden Rockets and were down 2-0 at the end of the first period after being out shot 7-5 and giving up a power play goal.
The boys in white woke up in the second period and narrowed the gap to 2-1 on a goal by Connor Sloan with the assist going to Cole Zimmerman.
Despite out shooting the visitors 11-7 in the third stanza, the Wranglers couldn’t notch the tying goal.
Nathan Warren took the loss for the home team.
The Wranglers took two delay-of-the-game penalties for shooting the puck over the boards in the defensive zone.
Saturday night
The North Okanagan Knights came into 100 Mile House with a 4-0-0-1 record and the lead in the Okanagan/Shuswap Conference.
Despite out shooting the Wranglers 15-6 in the first frame, the score was knotted at one apiece at the first intermission.
The Knights lit up the scoreboard first at 13:21 of the opening period, but the Wranglers replied with a power-play marker a minute later by Luke Santerno. Sloan and Tyson Levesque recorded the assists.
The second and third periods were scoreless.
North Okanagan scored the overtime winner with 1:17 left on the clock
Kristian Stead took the loss for the home team.
Read the details in the Oct. 2 edition of the 100 Mile House Free Press.