Published: Sunday, 20 February 2022 17:17
Written by David Zammit (swiftcurrentonline)

The Swift Current Innovation Credit Union U18 Female AAA Wildcats continued their winning trend this weekend with two wins over the visiting Saskatoon Stars.

Swift Current was able to erase a late two-goal deficit this afternoon for a 6-5 victory just 17 hours after blanking the Stars 3-0 on Saturday.

“I definitely think we could have done better,” Wildcats forward Sadie Keller said Sunday. “We’ve played better games but we found a way to pull off a couple wins here.”

Keller notched the game-winner with 25 seconds left in regulation completing a wild comeback win for Swift Current pushing their winning streak to five games.

“It [was] a power play so I knew we had to take advantage of it,” she explained. “I knew that there wasn’t much left on the clock and Caitlyn, I honestly thought was about to shoot it and then I just seen the pass come to me and I just wanted to tap it in. Didn’t want to overthink it.”

The Wildcats scored four of their six goals in the final frame, one coming each from; Kiana McNinch, Ava Metzger, Samantha Thompson, and Keller. Swift Current’s other two goals came in the first period, one from Wingert to open the scoring and McNinch’s first of the game.

Goalie Karlee Lehner picked up her league-leading 13th win on the season stopping 20 shots.

Rewind a day and the story was very different between the Wildcats and Stars.

Swift Current defenceman Caitlyn Perlinger scored twice in the first period to power the Wildcats to a 3-0 victory.

While Lehner was perfect in goal, stopping all 29 shots she faced.

And Wildcats leading scorer Jerzey Watteyne added an insurance marker late in the third period registering her 20th goal of the season.

The two regulation wins move Swift Current to 17-8-4 with just one game left in the season against Notre Dame. The Wildcats have now won 11 of their last 12 games.