Crossroads staff

The West Central Atom Wheat Kings came close to winning a tournament in North Battleford last weekend.

Results were mixed for the other Wheat King teams.

In Saskatoon, the bantam Wheat Kings lost 8-3 to the Generals on Feb. 2 and 9-5 to the Maniacs on Feb. 3.

In their only action in the last seven days, the peewee Wheat Kings downed the Broncos 11-4 in Humboldt last Saturday.

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The bantams aren’t done with Saskatoon teams either as they are to host the Stallions in Unity on Sunday.

The peewees are to play the league-leading Knights in Prince Albert this Saturday and the second-place Wildcats in Warman on Sunday.

The atom Wheat Kings began the tournament with a 5-5 tie with the Lloydminster KFC Blazers on Friday. They then posted Saturday wins of 7-3 over the Lloydminster Fort Garry Blazers and 3-1 over Wainwright.

Wainwright went on to win the tournament, said Wheat King head coach Zane Hayes.

The North East team from the Nipawin, Melfort and Tisdale area then beat the Atom Wheat Kings 3-1.

That loss put the Wheat Kings in the B final, where they beat a North Battleford team 7-0.

“There were probably easily four teams in that tournament that could have won it;” North East, North Battleford and the Wheat Kings being the others, said Hayes.

In that loss to North East, “their goalie just played unreal,” he said.

Having a tiered team and going to tournaments with similar teams means the results are unpredictable, said Hayes.

The atom Wheat Kings have also been busy with exhibition games.

They tied the Kindersley peewee provincial team 3-3 in Kindersley on Jan. 30, beat a Swift Current AA atom team 4-2 in Cabri on Jan. 13 and played the Kerrobert peewee team twice on the Jan. 18-20 weekend, winning 7-4 and 8-7.

The bantam Wheat Kings led the Maniacs 3-0 after the first period. Saskatoon outscored West Central five goals to two in the second period to tie the game after two periods.

Ethan Hilbig, Colbey Frocklage, Jakin Lawrence, Karson Blanchette and Hunter Sperle got the Wheat King markers.

Lawrence also had two assists.

Tye Spencer scored six of the Maniacs’ nine goals.

Logan McCutcheon had five assists, four of them on goals by Spencer.

Blake Sittler made 31 saves for West Central.

Maniac goalie Alex Garrett stopped 16 Wheat King shots.

The Generals game went the opposite way with the city team leading 4-0 after the first stanza and 6-1 after two.

Frocklage, Lawrence and Sperle tallied for the Wheat Kings.

Ethan Kelly assisted on two of their goals.

Mason Bueckert got a hat trick for the Generals.

Avery Kohlman and Sittler split time in the Wheat King goal, making two and 21 saves, respectively.

Rhett Harkot turned back 36 Wheat King shots on the Generals net.

The peewee Wheat King led the Broncos 4-0 and 7-2 by periods.

Carter Ralston scored four goals, Dayton Reschny got two more and Ethan Sautner, Cam Perlinger, Cole Reschny, Cobe Perlinger and Pryce Thiessen also contributed goals.

Sautner and Dayton Reschny each had three assists and Cole Reschny got two assists.

Cam Marshak scored twice for Humboldt.

Wheat King goalie Paige Fischer picked up the win.

Brady Holtvogt went the distance in the Bronco net.

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Crossroads staff

In the past week, the West Central Bantam Wheat Kings went 2-1 against Saskatoon teams while their peewee counterparts won all three of their games.

The bantams can start their Christmas break but the Peewee Wheat Kings have two games this weekend before they can take that holiday rest. They are to host the undefeated Warman Wildcats in Kindersley on Friday and the Battlefords Barons in Macklin on Saturday.

The Bantam Wheat Kings beat the Saskatoon Stallions 4-3 in Saskatoon on Dec. 11, lost 4-2 to the Saskatoon Maniacs in Kerrobert this past Saturday and went to overtime to beat the Saskatoon Outlaws 4-3 in Rosetown on Sunday.

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The Peewee Wheat Kings beat the Tisdale Ramblers 6-2 and 12-3 in Tisdale last Friday and Saturday, respectively, and then hammered the Melfort Mustangs 11-1 in Melfort on Sunday.

For the bantams, Ethan Hilbig got the overtime winner with 49 seconds left in the first overtime period.

The Outlaws led 2-1 after one period. After a scoreless second period, Ostrom got his second goal of the game, scoring shorthanded to tie the score 2-2. After an Outlaw goal, Lawrence scored with just over a minute in the period to tie the score again.

He and Ostrom each had two assists in the game.

Lucas Turple, Berkly Catton and Jackson Wingert got the Outlaw goals.

The Wheat Kings had the edge in shots 43-41.

Avery Kohlman made 38 saves in the West Central net.

James Venne stopped 39 shots for the Outlaws.

Leightin Partington and Hunter Sperle scored Wheat King goals against the Maniacs.

Tye Spencer and Logan McCutcheon each scored twice for the Maniacs.

Spencer and Tyrus Flory had two assists each.

The Maniacs outshot the Wheat Kings 51-34.

Blake Sittler made 47 saves in the West Central goal.

Maniac netminder Declan Boser turned back 32 shots.

Karson Blanchette scored the winning goal against the Stallions, doing so at 16:11 of the second period. Ostrom, Partington and Sperle also tallied.

Ethan Hilbig had two assists.

For the Stallions, James Davidson scored twice and Raiden Zacharias got their other marker.

Hudson Malinoski had two assists.

The Stallions outshot the Wheat Kings 41-33.

West Central goalie Blake Sittler made 38 saves.

Mason Briske stopped 29 shots for the Stallions.

For the Peewee Wheat Kings against Melfort, Cole Reschny got a hat trick, Dayton Reschny and Pryce Thiessen got two goals each and Carter Ralston, Cam Perlinger, Cobe Perlinger and Jake Hudec also scored.

Ralston, Hudec, Cole Reschny and Kayden Cey had two assists each.

Luke Evans replied for the Mustangs.

Tyson Borschneck tended the Wheat King goal.

Andrew Perrot allowed five goals and was pulled at the 17:54 mark of the first period. Hunter Nakonechny allowed six goals the rest of the way.

Cey scored three goals and Ralston, Cam Perlinger and Kayden Hrycan got two each on Saturday in Tisdale. Dayton Reschny, Ethan Sautner and Cole Reschny rounded out the Wheat King scoring.

Dayton and Cole Reschny each had two assists.

Alex Crowe-Nippi, Cade Bohn and Lucas Hvidston scored the Rambler goals.

Paige Fischer minded the Wheat King net.

Kylan Brockman tended the Tisdale goal.

In the Friday game, Dayton and Cole Reschny, Ralston, Sautner, Thiessen and Cam Perlinger tallied for West Central.

Crowe-Nippi and Tarin Smith scored for Tisdale.

Borschneck was in goal for the Wheat Kings.

Wyatt Kreutzwieser was in net for the Ramblers.

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