Vikes advance to Championship Game following shootout win over Okanagan

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The University of Victoria Vikes are the kings of the shootout.  For the second straight night, the Vikes pulled off an upset, coming back to down their opponent in a shootout.On this night (Mar 16), the Vikes downed the Okanagan College Coyotes 7-6 in a wild one at Memorial Arena in Kamloops.   The victory puts the Vikes into the championship final of the BC Intercollegiate Hockey League on Sunday (Mar 18).A wild first period saw five goals scored as the Coyotes led 3-2.Chris Glen (forward, Vernon, BC), Layne Stopanski (forward, Trail, BC) and Dave Mann (defence, Kelowna, BC)  all beat Vikes goalie Jason Margolus (Vancouver,BC).    Brent Sutherland (forward, West Vancouver, BC) and Vikes captain Doug Evans (defence, Calgary, AB) scored on Okanagan goalie Sunny Gill  (Medicine Hat, AB).Victoria took the lead 4-3 after two periods thanks to goals from Dustin Taylor (forward, Airdrie, AB) and Mark Callaghan (defence, North Vancouver, BC).  Callaghan's goal coming on the power play.The third period was a wild affair. Victoria went up 5-3 on a goal from Mark Prest (forward, Delta,BC) at 3:30.  Prest was later named as the Vikes player of the game.   Less than three minutes later, a great three way passing play resulted in OCC cutting the deficit to 5-4.  Aaron Buat (forward, Kelowna, BC), a BCIHL all-star converted for the first of two for him on the night at 6:10. Buat tied the game at 12:00 of the period .Three minutes and 50 seconds later, the Coyotes took the lead when Shawn Mulchany (defence, Kelowna, BC) went top shelf.  Just over a minute later at 16:14, the Vikes tied it at six when Prest scored his second of the hockey game.A scoreless overtime solved nothing and the teams went to a shootout.  For U VIC, their second in as many nights after downing defending league champion SFU.This affair went ten shooters.  Vikes forward Eli Wiebe (Tswwassen, BC), with the shootout tied at one, beat Gill.That left it up to Buat, who was shooting for the second time in the competition to tie it up with a goal. He missed and the Vikes are off to Sunday's championship final.The loss leaves Okanagan College to play SFU in the semi final on Saturday (Mar 17) at 7:30 pm at Memorial Arena.  SFU eliminatedgd the host Thompson Rivers University WolfPack 3-0 earlier in the day.