A Novice House hockey tournament held last weekend at the South Cariboo Rec. Centre produced a second-place result for the 100 Mile Invis team.
The six-team tourney ran from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3 and was hosted by the 100 Mile & District Minor Hockey Association.
Invis earned the right to challenge Quesnel in the final after recording three wins and a tie in round-robin play.
It was a busy first period in the championship game with five goals potted by Quesnel and three by Invis. Scoring for 100 Mile were Easton Mills with a single, and Kyle Sanford with a pair.
Sanford scored again in the second frame for a hat trick and Mason Pincott lit up the scoreboard for Invis, but the effort still left Invis trailing 8-5 at the end of the period.
Invis was shut out in the third frame, while Quesnel scored three more times to make it an 11-5 game victory.
In the contest for third place, it was 100 Mile Canadian 2 for 1 getting past Lac la Hache with a 4-3 win.
Canadian 2 for 1 took an early lead, scoring twice in the first period with single markers from Aidan Moore and Kyson Hopson, while Lac la Hache went unrewarded.
Spence Giesbrecht and Gradie Fry found the back of the net for Lac la Hache in the second period to tie the score. Then Hopson scored again to give his 100 Mile team a 3-2 lead going into the third frame.
Fry potted another to knot the score at 3-3 early in the final period, but Hopson found the back of the net again, scoring a hat trick and the Canadian 2 for 1 winning goal.
In the battle for fifth place, Lillooet edged out 100 Mile Central GM 6-5 for the win.
The end of the first period saw Lillooet leading 3-0, but then Gavin McLean came on strong for Central GM in the second frame with a pair of markers. Lillooet answered with three tallies to boost their lead to 6-2 before the second intermission.
Central GM came to life in the final frame, scoring a trio of goals. McLean scored one to give him a hat trick, and singles came from Xander Flett and Avery Cole.
The remaining two minutes on the clock wasn't enough time for the 100 Mile team to tie it up and they had to settle for sixth place.
