In what's been described as a Team Yukon locomotive, the territory's female squash team has taken down two Atlantic provinces in the Canada Winter Games.

In a series of matches Tuesday and this morning, Team Yukon defeated Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick.

On Tuesday, the Yukoners defeated Newfoundland three matches to one, and this morning dispatched New Brunswick in three straight.

One game against New Brunswick was won by default as the eastern team only has three female players.

Tuesday's epic nail-biter came down to the wire with Yukoner Sophia Flather beating Daria Snow in the fifth game of the match.

Flather was down two games to one heading into the crucial fourth match but pulled out a two-game victory to take the match and give the Yukon a win in its encounter with Newfoundland.

'I'm really excited; I thought I played really good,' Flather said after the fifth game, which she won by a score of nine to six.

'I was just thinking rally by rally. I just wanted to win the rally and make it to the end,' she said of the back-and-forth battle which saw one athlete and then the other take the lead.

She said the crowd of Yukon supporters cheering her on helped her with the victory.

'It was good because every time I won a rally, they would just go crazy.'

Jessica Borgford was the first Yukon female squash player to win a match at the current Games and is very happy about it.

'I am so excited that I'm the first one to get a match on someone,' she said.

'I worked hard and I made some good volleys and I made some good shots.'

Borgford said when she set out to compete in the Games, she was looking to win at least one match.

'I achieved my goal right now so I'm pretty happy.'

Borgford defeated Newfoundland's Stephanie Stanley in three straight games.

Squash team member Jane Bell also won three straight matches, giving up only one point in her competition against Newfoundland's Amanda Benson.

'It was awesome; it was lots of fun.'

Bell said Borgford's victory gave her and the team an added boost of confidence in their games.

'It was a good help because I knew I had a chance.'

The Yukon's Erin Linklater had the first match against Newfoundland and lost her match three games to one.

Linklater said she felt too many errors had cost her her match.

'I feel pretty good, though; I feel like I could have played a lot better. I had a lot of unforced errors.

'I was serving out and I just wasn't hitting it very well, I thought,' she said.

Team manager Cameron Webber said he was ecstatic his team had won its first encounter.

'I am pleased as Christmas punch; that was huge.'

After this morning's victory against New Brunswick, Webber said he felt his team is picking up momentum.

'The Yukon locomotive just keeps on rolling,' he said.

Webber said his team had some adjusting to do this morning as the match was played on the all-glass court erected at Ecole Emilie-Tremblay.

'It's quite different from the usual. It takes quite a bit of ummph to get it to the back because of the glass,' he said.

'The ball is also a bit slower. It's like that episode of The Twilight Zone where everything is the same, just two inches to the left.'

The next match scheduled after New Brunswick, he said, was against Quebec.

Yukon coach Marie Desmarais said she's proud of both her teams and feels the female squad has earned its victories.

'It feels good; it looks like we're going to finish fourth in our pool out of six, which is great.'

'The crossover is tomorrow I think we're going to be playing third in the other pool so I think we may be playing Saskatchewan.'

The boys' squash team is still hunting for its first victory.