The Cariboo Cougars will have a first-round bye and home-ice advantage in the second round of the playoffs.
The Cougars earned those rewards when they dominated the South Island Thunderbirds in a Saturday night game at Kin 1 and clinched second place in the B.C. Hockey Major Midget League. The Cats beat the much weaker Thunderbirds 11-1. To put an exclamation point on the weekend, they skated to a 5-0 victory in Sunday's rematch.
"It was good, especially after clinching [Saturday] night, that the guys could come in and play pedal-down hockey," said Cougars head coach Trevor Sprague. "We kept the momentum going and didn't really give them a chance to get back into it."
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