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GUNNING FOR GOLD – Titan Gaming players, left, line up for a faceoff against their Skookum Asphalt rivals during the gold-medal game at the Yukon atom hockey championships in Haines Junction, Sunday. Photo by JONI PIERCE
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GUNNING FOR GOLD – Titan Gaming players, left, line up for a faceoff against their Skookum Asphalt rivals during the gold-medal game at the Yukon atom hockey championships in Haines Junction, Sunday. Photo by JONI PIERCE
Skookum Asphalt stunned Titan Gaming to win atom hockey gold in Haines Junction last weekend.
Skookum Asphalt stunned Titan Gaming to win atom hockey gold in Haines Junction last weekend.
The all-Whitehorse final saw Skookum take down the tournament favourites 4-2 thanks to a hat trick from Cassie Cebuliak and some stellar goaltending by Alex Arsenault.
The Yukon hockey championship for nine- and 10-year-olds saw eight teams battle for gold at Bill Brewster Arena last weekend.
Five teams were from the Yukon capital’s house league system, while Dawson City, Tok, Alaska, and a community team made up of players from Haines Junction, Teslin and Watson Lake also competed.
Titan entered the final unbeaten, but couldn’t solve Arsenault, said coach Blayne Monahan.
“It was a bit of a shocker for us,” he said. “We were the team to beat there, for sure. We dominated in all aspects.”
Bryn Studney-Amos scored on a pass from Conner LaBar, and Kayce Saligo also found mesh for Titan.
Defenceman Alex Brown’s goal stood up as the game-winner for Skookum.
The final made up for the “wolloping” Titan put on his team Friday night, said Skookum coach Blair Macdonald.
“We had to right our wrong,” he said, noting his club had only nine players, but got progressively better as the weekend went on.
“I just told them to keep playing like a team and keep working hard. They worked hard and earned it.”
Whitehorse Beverages beat an upstart team from Tok 9-2 in the bronze-medal game.
Kieran Halowaty starred, scoring a hat trick in the victory.
Tok was the surprise of the tournament, said convenor Georgie Townrow, after finishing last in 2015.
The territorial bantam title will be decided in Whitehorse Jan. 29, with the peewee championships set for Watson Lake, Feb. 5.
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