Over the weekend, the Prince Rupert Sea Wolves played their final two games before competing in the Skeena Valley League midget rep zones. The Sea Wolves took on Kitimat in two intense games that had each team win once and lose once. Game one took place on Saturday evening, with the first goal of the night being scored by Sea Wolves captain Garrett Santurbano at 16:07 in the first period. The Sea Wolves scored their second goal of the evening at 8:59 by Josh Kierce giving Prince Rupert the lead with a score of 2-0. After a minute of a great deal of body checking, and defensive playing, Michael Bell from Kitimat got his team their first goal at 7:16.The Sea Wolves brought took lead higher at 15:33 when Jordan Weir got a goal. Kitimat didn’t take it sitting down, scoring at 11:54 and again at 4:39, to bring the score to an even tie. Fortunately for the Sea Wolves Ben Mark got a puck in the net in the last two minutes of the period to bring the score to 4-3 for the Sea Wolves. 15 minutes into the third period Girbav scored a goal for Rupert, but around a minute later Kitimat’s Bell netted another goal for his team.In the final period, members of both teams were feeling the competition. Around nine minutes in the period there was a close call for a fight. Under 30 seconds later Tyler Ostrom of the Sea Wolves’ shot a puck right past Kitimat’s goal scoring the team’s sixth goal.As the end of the game drew nearer, Braydon Horcoff from the Sea Wolves and Michael Brat from Kitimat broke out in an intense fight that had two referees trying to separate them. In the last three minutes Kitimat stepped up their game and at 2:56 Connor Black scored their last goal of the night. When the final thirty seconds of the game began, Kitimat took out their goalie to add an extra player on the ice, which proved to be a mistake when, during the last three seconds of the game, the Sea Wolves’ Justin Fontaine added another goal to their total, making the final score 7-5 for the Sea Wolves.“At Saturday’s game the team had a good effort. The game was back and forth and we showed improvements from our last game,” Sea Wolves coach Roger Atchison stated, adding that the coaching staff are very impressed with the work ethic of the team members recently.Despite being the champions on Saturday, Sunday’s game was not one of the Sea Wolves best. In the first period, Kitimat gained themselves a hefty lead and kept it up in the second period. The Sea Wolves scored their first goal of the game at 5:51 in period two by Bryan Tates. In the end, the Sea Wolves only got themselves two goals, the second being made by Jadyn Archer at 5:16 in the last period. The ending score was 8 to 2 for Kitimat. “We lost some momentum and Kitimat came on strong. This loss was a pretty tough one to take and we lost a little bit of composure, but overall I think our teams will be very prepared for zones,” commented Atchison, later adding, “They’re a really good squad.”The Sea Wolves finished first overall in the Skeena Valley League, which entitles them to host zones at home starting on Friday, March 4 and running until the 6. The Sea wolves will be playing their first zone game on Friday at 6 p.m., as well as games at 10:45 am and 6 p.m. on Saturday.