It seems the game hopped away from them in the second period.
The Lac la Hache Tomahawks fell 7-3 when the local senior men's team faced off in Quesnel against the Kangaroos in Central Interior Hockey League action on Oct. 25.
Quesnel won 7-3.
Lac la Hache was down 2-0 when Francis Johnson scored on the power play with 13:52 gone in the first period. Assists went to Brad Crump and William Sellars on the play.
While Eric Nickel found the back of the net for Lac la Hache with eight minutes left in the second, with assists to Walter Schmidt and Gilbert Robbins, it was the Kangaroos, who improved to (3-3) and second place in the East Division, who really turned things up, notching three unanswered and four total goals in that middle frame.
Quesnel took a 6-2 lead into the third, where things got heated.
A number of altercations broke out and several fighting penalties were earned. In total throughout the game, but mostly in the last period, Lac la Hache took 80 minutes in penalties and Quesnel took 71.
Drew Rose, on the power play, scored the Tomahawks' last goal, with assists to Donovan Nicholas and Johnson.
William Sellars made 16 saves for Lac la Hache while the Tomahawks fired 29 pucks at Ryan Manderson, who turned away 26.
Lac la Hache (1-2) is last place with two points in the East Division. Lac la Hache plays in Williams Lake against the division-leading Stampeders (5-0) on Nov. 1.