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Weyburn Red Wings win home-and-home over Melville

The Weyburn Red Wings won both weekend preseason games against the Melville Millionaires, and will host a home-and-home with the Estevan Bruins this weekend.

WEYBURN - The Weyburn Red Wings won both weekend preseason games against the Melville Millionaires, and will host a home-and-home with the Estevan Bruins this weekend.

Weyburn hosted Melville on Friday night with a 4-3 overtime win, and then they won 4-0 in the return match in Melville on Saturday night.

On Friday, the Wings were first on the board with a goal about 57 seconds before the buzzer for the first period, as Luke Dekay scored, assisted by Aiden Mohan.

Liam Donovan scored in the second period, assisted by Simon Martin, then Jack Linton made it 3-0 on an assist from Donovan.

The Millionaires then scored three to tie the game, and two minutes into overtime, Mohan scored the winning goal, assisted by Carson Castro.

Nick Forsyth was in goal for the full 62 minutes of play for the Red Wings, making 33 stops on 36 shots on net.

In Saturday’s game, Donovan had two of the four goals, including the first one seven minutes into the game, assisted by Castro and Alyandro De Leon.

Ty McKay scored at 1:20 of the second, assisted by Rhett Vedress and Sutton Verot, then at the halfway point, Simon Martin scored, assisted by Roan Burgess.

On Donovan’s second goal, in the third period, Martin assisted.

Angelo Zol got the shutout for the Red Wings, stopping all 42 shots on net.

The Red Wings hosted the Notre Dame Hounds on Tuesday evening, and will host the Bruins at Crescent Point Place on Friday, Sept. 13, before heading to Estevan for the return game on Sept. 14 to finish out the preseason schedule for Weyburn.

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