YORKTON - Saturday the Yorkton Terriers headed south down Highway #10 to the CN Community Centre in Melville for chapter two of the 2025-26 SJHL season rivalry story.
It took Wesley Olson only 3:36, and an opportunity on the powerplay to give the home ice Millionaires a 1-0 lead.
The one-goal margin held until 6:42 of the second period when Preston Baerwald made it 2-0 Mills with another powerplay goal.
The Terriers finally got on the board with a man advantage situation of their own at 9:17. William Leonard scored the goal.
The game stayed 2-1 in favour of Melville into the third period.
In the final stanza of the contest it took only 1:46 for Vinay Junek to score to knot things 2-2.
At 4:07 Melville edged ahead 3-2 on a goal by Keil Schmalz.
From there it was all Yorkton.
Leonard scored his second of the night to tie the score 3-3 at 4:52.
At 9:22 Mattias Schoffner scored to give the Terriers their first lead with the eventual game-winner.
Jye Zawatsky added a powerplay insurance marker at 13:22, with Brett Buckley adding an empty-netter at 17:42 rounding out a 6-3 Terrier win.
Alexandro Montoya guarded the twine for Yorkton, facing 43-shots in the win.
Kael Svenson was the netminder for Melville facing 29-shots in the loss.
