The Bienfait Coalers continued to roll in the Big Six Hockey League, as they defeated the league-leading Carnduff Red Devils 3-2 in overtime on Jan. 7 at the Bienfait Memorial Arena for the Coalers seventh straight win.
Taysen Holt scored the winner midway through the extra frame. Dylan Lay and Dylan Herzberg also scored for Bienfait.
Justin Smith and Callan Carlton had the Red Devils goals.
Play in the Big Six resumed on Jan. 3, after a 10-day break for Christmas and New Year’s. The games on Jan. 3 were the Yellow Grass Wheat Kings over the Carlyle Cougars 4-3 in overtime, Carnduff over the Kipling-Windthorst Oil Kings 4-1 and the Redvers Rockets routing the Arcola-Kisbey Combines 11-3.
Three more games were played Jan. 4. Yellow Grass edged the Wawota Flyers 5-4, Bienfait hammered Kipling-Windthorst 13-1 and Carnduff defeated Arcola-Kisbey 9-4.
Carlyle defeated the Midale Mustangs 8-2 in the lone game on Jan. 5.
With less than a month remaining in the regular season, the Red Devils continue to lead the league with an 11-1-2 record and 24 points, two points clear of the Redvers Rockets (10-1). The Rockets have three games in hand.
Yellow Grass (8-3) and Bienfait (8-4) are tied for third with 16 points each, although the Wheat Kings have a game in hand. Carlyle (7-7-1) sits fifth with 15 points, but they have just three games remaining. Wawota (5-4-1) is sixth at 10 points, and the Flyers have five games in hand on the Cougars.
Midale (3-8), Kipling-Windthorst (2-10) and Arcola-Kisbey (1-12-1) round out the standings.
Two games are slated for Jan. 10: Midale at Kipling-Windthorst and Yellow Grass and Redvers in a clash of two of the top teams in the league.
Three more games are scheduled for Jan. 11: Redvers at Wawota, Bienfait at Carnduff in a rematch of their recent game, and Arcola-Kisbey at Midale.
Wawota will be at Arcola-Kisbey on Jan. 12, and Bienfait visits Kipling-Windthorst on Jan. 15.
