With the South Sask Lacrosse League and provincial playoffs coming up in the near future, the Moose Jaw Mustangs are quickly seeing their respective regular seasons come to a close.
The Mustangs 1 and Mustangs 2 faced off in under-11 action on Sunday afternoon and saw the Mustangs 1 come away with a 7-5 victory. The Mustangs 2 were also in action in Swift Current Saturday and won 4-1 over the Rampage before dropping an 8-2 decision to Queen City.
The U13 Mustangs capped off an unbeaten season with a pair of wins over Standing Buffalo on Sunday, taking a 5-1 win in the first meeting and 8-5 victory in the second.
Mustangs 1 7, Mustangs 2 5
With the two teams sporting almost identical records, it stood to reason any game between them would be close, and that was the case Sunday at the Kinsmen Arena.
The Mustangs 2 took a 2-0 lead out of the first period, but the Mustangs 1 rallied with four unanswered goals in the second to take a 4-3 edge into the final frame. There, the eventual victors would make it a three-goal lead before the Mustangs 2 got back within one with 6:45 to play. A late insurance marker would put things away once and for all for the Mustangs 1, and they’d have their two-goal win.
Kipton Tremblay had a solid game for the Mustangs 1, scoring six goals, while Kayden Howes had their other marker.
Sterling Stewart scored a pair for the Mustangs 2, Austin Duncan, Bennett Dunlop and Clark Alexander also scored.
The Mustangs 1 are now 4-3-2 and close out their regular season Monday in Weyburn.
Mustangs 2 4, Swift Current 1
A pair of first-period goals set the tone, and Moose Jaw would add single markers in the second and third to take their relatively comfortable win.
Stewart and Dunlop scored for the Mustangs in the first, Duncan had their lone marker in the second, and Stewart closed things out with the only goal of the third period.
Queen City 8, Mustangs 2 2
The Regina squad came into the contest with an unbeaten record, and they looked the part, scoring a pair of goals in each of the first and second periods and tacking on four more in the third.
Axton Gebhart scored on the power play for Moose Jaw’s lone goal in the opening period, Silas Calibaba had their other goal with 36 seconds to play in the game.
The Mustangs 2 cap their regular season with a 4-4-2 mark and will finish in fifth place heading into the league playoffs in two weeks’ time.
U13 Mustangs 5, Standing Buffalo 1
The Fighting Sioux raised a few eyebrows by taking a 1-0 lead out of the opening frame, but goals from Ryder Seiferling and Cruz Seaborg gave Moose Jaw a 2-1 lead and they’d never look back.
Seiferling, Jaxyn Houle and Rhett Hazell scored for the Mustangs in the third period.
U13 Mustangs 8, Standing Buffalo 5
It was another relatively close one in the rematch later Sunday, as a back-and-forth first period saw Moose Jaw take a 4-3 lead. The Mustangs extended that edge 7-4 through two before the two teams exchanged single goals in the final frame.
Seiferling had a hat trick and four points, while Houle picked up a pair of markers. Rylan Deichert had a goal and two assists, Cash Bellefeuille and Connor Hart-Livingston rounded out scoring for Moose Jaw.
The Mustangs wrap up their regular season with a 10-0-1 record and will be the top seeds when Moose Jaw hosts the league championship at the end of June.
