Defenceman Ty Schultz of New Westminster scored a pair of game-winning goals for the Northwest Giants in a sweep of its weekend series against the Northeast Chiefs.
The Burnaby Winter Club product got the winner with less than two minutes left in Sunday’s 3-2 win over the Chiefs in a B.C. major midget hockey league game at Coquitlam’s Planet Ice on Sunday.
On Saturday, the first-round draft pick of the Western Hockey League Medicine Hat Tigers opened the second period with an unassisted first marker of the year that stood up as the game-winner following a 5-2 win at home over the Chiefs.
Playing with just 15 skaters on Sunday, the Giants got big goals from support players to post the team’s 10th victory this season.
Keegan Jones opened the scoring in the first period with his third counter of the year.
Trailing 2-1 in the third period, first-year forward Ryland Chernomaz scored his first goal as a Giant to knot the contest midway through the final frame.
A day earlier, the Giants dumped the visiting Chiefs at the Burnaby Winter Club.
Defenceman Mitch Stapely got things started in the first period, counting his first goal of the year in a two-point effort at home.
Quinn Thompson scored his 10th goal and Colton Kerfoot, added a team-best 12th goal of the year, while Owen Stout also scored to give the Giants a 5-1 lead before the Chiefs answered back late in the third period.
The back-to-back wins kept the Giants in a first-place tie with the Okanagan Rockets atop the 11-team loop, both with identical 10-1-1 records.
Kerfoot led all scorers on Saturday with a three-point effort. The second-year Giant is currently tied for third place in league scoring with South Island’s Nick Guiney, both with 24 total points.
South Island’s Hayden Hopkins and Liam Finlay of Okanagan lead the scoring parade with 25 points apiece.
The Giants are in Kelowna this weekend for a first-place battle royal with the Rockets.
