REGINA – The Yorkton Terriers have forfeited their 3-0 victory over the Estevan Bruins from Oct. 16, as well as victories on Oct. 11 and 18 against the Nipawin Hawks and Melville Millionaires, respectively.
According to a news release from the SJHL, the Terriers were caught using an ineligible player. The wins and points in the standings from those games will be awarded to Nipawin, Estevan, and Melville.
Estevan's record now stands at 4-3-1-1. Yorkton is 5-6 instead of 8-3.
According to an SJHL news release, section 4.1 of the SJHL rules and regulations identities the parameters around this matter:
"No player shall be permitted to participate in a league game unless he appears on that team’s player protected lists. Notification of protected players lists, certified players and affiliated players are to be completed through the electronic registration process. In addition to the right of the commissioner to forfeit a game for the use of an ineligible player, the offending team will receive a mandatory fine of four hundred and fifty dollars ($450)."
The league did not identify the ineligible player.
The players involved with these contests will still be credited with all personal statistics, but for all games that Yorkton used an ineligible player, they will have their team goals reduced to zero. All goals scored against Yorkton will remain as is. The non-offending team will have their total goals against reduced by the number of goals that were scored against them during that game. In the case where the opposing team did not score a goal, one will be added to their total to make the score 1-0. It will not be awarded to any specific player. All individual player stats will remain as is. Only team stats are changed.
