The male U18 Pembina Valley Hawks dropped a pair of games last weekend after having opened up the season with three wins.
A trio of games this past week against the Southwest Cougars saw the Hawks start it off Oct. 1 with a 4-3 win in Morden, but they then fell 6-5 and 4-1 Saturday and Sunday in Souris.
Paxton White’s second of the season 3:08 into overtime gave the Hawks the 4-3 victory Wednesday.
Cole Secord scored a pair to already put him at seven for the season. The other goal came from Mason Leite, while Koen Bleznuk made 29 saves as the Hawks outshot the Cougars 41-32.
In game two, the Cougars needed a shootout goal to pick up the 6-5 win after overtime failed to settle things.
Ragnar Gillis, Caden McMahon, Casey Magarell, Nolan Bravo, and Carson Hiebert scored for Pembina Valley. Bleznuk made 35 saves with the Cougars having a 41-39 edge in shots on goal.
Ocean Fehr then scored the lone Hawks goal in the 4-1 loss in game three, which saw the Cougars take a 2-1 lead after 20 minutes before putting it away with two more goals in the third. Bleznuk took the loss on 19 saves as Pembina Valley outshot Southwest 26-23.
The Hawks will look to rebound this weekend when they visit Central Plains in Portage Friday before hosting Interlake on Saturday.
