It was a case of win one, lose one for the Northern Capitals.
The U18 Female AAA hockey team earned a split in its first home weekend of the 2025-26 B.C. Elite Hockey League season.
A 3-2 win on Saturday over the Fraser Valley Rush was followed up by a 5-1 Sunday morning defeat in Kin 2.
Saturday’s nip and tuck affair saw rookie Lily Krueger score the game-winner, which deflected by the stick of a Rush defender and through the wickets of goaltender Kiera Pong.
Kaylan Halwas opened the scoring for Fraser Valley, cashing in on a breakaway against Caps goalie Taylor Rutter for 1-0 edge.
The game turned into a penalty fest where the Rush put the Capitals on the power-play four consecutive times, proving costly.
University of Saskatchewan commit Reese Overton evened the score for the Capitals while Grace Porter notched her fourth on a point shot to put the hosts ahead 2-1 after 40 minutes.
After Krueger made it 3-1 in the third, the Rush got their own fortuitous bounce leading to a Ava McGinley goal.
Rutter picked up the win in goal for the Caps.
Fraser Valley (4-2) exacted their revenge on Sunday morning getting markers from Vada Kennedy, Ava McGinley, Dylann Nelson, Kaylan Halwas and Louella Rempel.
Sasha Fofonoff scored in defeat for the Capitals who drop to 2-3-1 on the season.
While the Caps have no league games this weekend, they are off to Edmonton for the Canadian Crown Female tourney in Edmonton taking on the Regina Rebels, Delta Hockey Academy and Sherwood Park in round robin action.
The tournament runs Friday to Sunday.
In U17 action, the Cariboo Cougars split a pair on the road against the Vancouver NE Chiefs (3-4-0) in Burnaby.
Cariboo fell 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday. Cooper Kursteiner and Sawyer Latkowski scored in defeat.
On Sunday, Gavin Parmar, Garret Harrop and Jayden Brideau led the way offensively in a 3-1 win.
Cariboo sits 5-0-1, good for third in the nine-team league. They travel to Richmond next weekend for a pair of games against the Vancouver Island Royals (0-8-0).
The U18 Cariboo Cougars dropped a pair of heart-breakers to the Okanagan Rockets in Kelowna including a 5-4 shootout decision on Saturday followed by a 2-1 defeat Sunday.
Cariboo had leads of 2-1 and 4-2 but were not able to close the deal as the Rockets evened the score in the third before getting the upper-hand in the shootout.
Kadric Mujcin scored twice and added one assist in the loss while Nic Gordon and Blake Lambe notched singles in defeat.
Brayden Jugnauth, Brayden Westman, Logan Jugnauth and Gavin Wood scored for the Rockets.
Hayden Getzlaf tallied the shootout winner. Ivan Anderson took the loss in net for Cariboo.
Getzlaf played the hero again on Sunday scoring the game-winner in the third period.
Riley Lettington scored in defeat for the Cougars. Ben Campbell replied for Okanagan.
Cariboo sits second in the standings at 3-2-1 one point back of the league-leading Rockets 4-0-0). The U18’s are off on the Thanksgiving weekend.
The U15 Cats are off to the Bauer Elite Tournament in Abbotsford, which begins Friday.
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