Warriors grind out points against Chiefs
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Playing their fourth regatta in five days, the Westside Warriors battled back from an early deficit to right to a 3-3 tie against a physical and speedy Chiefs squad in BCHL vitality Sunday in Chilliwack.
After gutting-out a 3-1 victory over Vernon the sundown before, the Warriors showed signs of fatigue and ‘bus-legs’ at daybreak in the game, allowing a pair of goals in the first 3 1/2 minutes of the orifice period.
But the Tribe battled back.
“It put the light bulb on for us when we went down two,” said Warrior Dru Morrison of the antediluvian deficit. “We had to work even harder to get ourselves back in it.”
It was Morrison who sparked the comeback, when he drilled a elongated shot past Chiefs starter Mitch Gillam to get Westside on the gaming-table late in the first.
Mathew Berry-Lamontagna’s first BCHL goal original in the second pulled Westside even, and chased Gillam from the game. Bryton Udy would control in for the Chiefs, and allow the go-ahead goal soon after, on a screened hastily from Peter MacIntosh.
Source: Kelowna Capital News