BIENFAIT - For the second straight season, a Big Six Hockey League quarter-final series between the Carnduff Red Devils and the Bienfait Coalers will be going the distance.
The fifth-ranked Coalers kept their season alive Tuesday night with a 5-4 overtime victory over the fourth-seeded Red Devils in Game 2 of their best-of-three showdown. Dayman Wanner scored the winning goal 2:21 into the extra frame on Tuesday.
Carnduff won Game 1 8-5 last week.
Game 3 will be played Thursday night in Carnduff, starting at 8 p.m.
Taysen Holt, Wyatt Garagan, Daniel Wanner and Jordan Ross had Bienfait’s other goals. Zack Miller was in goal for the victory.
Ben Hiltz had two goals for Carnduff, including the marker midway through the third period that sent the game into overtime. Nico Anderson and Kody Martin also scored for the Red Devils. Cody Dumaine was their goalie.
Last season the Red Devils beat the Coalers in a best-of-three first-round series en route to winning their first league title since 2007.
Also on Tuesday, the No. 7 Yellow Grass Wheat Kings edged the No. 2 Oxbow Huskies 3-2 in Game 1 of that series.
Zach Douglas and Braden Mellon scored for Yellow Grass in the first period, and Mellon added another in the third period that proved to be the winner.
Liam Rutten and Brycen Odgers were the Oxbow goal scorers.
Tanner Erickson (Yellow Grass) and Cody Levesque (Oxbow) were the goalies.
Game 2 will be Friday night in Yellow Grass and Game 3, if necessary, would be the following night in Oxbow. Both games are slated to start at 8 p.m.
The top-seeded Redvers Rockets and the No. 3 Moosomin Rangers have already advanced to the semifinal round.
