It looks like High Prairie is locked into third place in the All Peace Minor Hockey League Under 13 Tier 5-6 Division standings after a split on the Feb. 8-9 weekend.
High Prairie fell to second place Valleyview 8-5 at home on Feb. 8 before rebounding for a 5-2 win over the Sexsmith Female team the next day, also on home ice.
The split left High Prairie with a 9-2-1-2 record for 21 points, five behind first place Wembley and four behind Valleyview, but High Prairie only has two games left so first place is now out of reach.
Valleyview blew the game open against High Prairie by scoring four second period goals to break a 2-2 tie. They outshot High Prairie 32-18 in the game.
Braxton Macnab scored four goals and Ethan Cauchie added three to propel Valleyview to the win. Jaxson Zenner scored the other goal.
Reid Herben scored a hat trick to lead High Prairie, all goals unassisted. Callum Lambton and Kael Halcrow-Cardinal scored the other goals.
High Prairie scored early and often the next day against Sexsmith. Mikael Feschuk, Henlee Potskin and Halcrow-Cardinal scored first period goals and Ryder McIntyre added a second period goal to make it 4-0.
Meadow Belanger and Rylee Rowlandson scored in the third period for Sexsmith with Steven Carifelle scoring in-between to end the scoring.
High Prairie outshot Sexsmith, which fell to 6-10-0-0 with the loss, 29-24.