Kate Olynyk, streaking down the left wing, tripped by a defenseman, falling and sliding, still managed to put the ball on net.

Olynyk's second – or third, or fourth – effort lifted the Yukon News Spidermonkeys over Capital Towing 2-0 in the Yukon Broomball Association (YBA) playoff finals on Saturday afternoon.

"It was a pretty lucky goal,” she said after the game.

"I was just running down, realized I only had one defender, got tripped up and

decided to pass it along the ice, and I had a wrong angle and somehow it went it. I don't know.”

Spidermonkey Ryan Martin opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal in the first period.

Goaltender Darryl Cann earned the shutout after a late-game press from Capital Towing, who finished the regular season in first.

"It was a tough battle,” Spidermonkey Chris Nash said. "That first shorthanded goal gave us a lot of momentum, and Kate Olynyk's insurance goal, there was a beauty.

They knocked her down, we had a penalty coming, but she threw it on net, it went in, and that gave us the insurance that we needed.”

Olynyk's third-period goal left much defensive work to do.

In broomball, she pointed out, no lead is safe.

"You need to have a few goals before you feel comfortable. One goal doesn't really do it, especially with that team, because they can score a few goals in a few minutes,” she said, adding that regular-season match ups between the two teams went back and forth.

"We didn't know what would happen in the final. They finished the league in first.”

The Spidermonkeys knocked Coyne – playoff winners for the past three years – off the top en route to the finals.

The eventual champions played six playoff games throughout the week, including two overtime wins, one against last year's champs.

"We were lucky enough to knock them out in overtime a couple nights ago in another close game,” Nash said.

The Spidermonkeys split their opening playoff games and therefore went down to the bottom and had to work their way up again, Olynyk added.

"So all of them were close. And stressful.”

This was the third year the Spidermonkeys reached the finals, Nash said.

"It was very tiring, but a very satisfying win, and I'm just proud of the way our whole team played from start to finish,” he said.

He added that his team played well defensively, especially by blocking shots in the third to maintain the lead.

He also noted the solid goaltending of first-year broomball player Cann.

"Our goalie has just been outstanding all year. It's his first year playing the sport, so

I'm very happy for him too. He's just been on fire,” he said.

Nash was a member of the Yukon Brewing Lead Dawgs, who won bronze at the world championships in Innsbruck, Austria, in November.

He's seen the sport grow in the seven years he's been playing.

"All the playoff games this year were close one-goal games…which makes it fun for everybody, when the games are close. You got a chance every night,” Nash said.Olynyk agreed.

"A lot of people have been playing for a long time and every year we take on a rookie team and a bunch of new players and we're always looking for new people.

It's always a fun league, a chance to run around a few days a week,” she said.

Added Nash: "Broomball's starting to take off here. After we did well in the worlds in Austria, I think that's going to help grow the sport a bit, as we get new players and people taking it more seriously…it can only help.”