It was a meeting of the two highest-scoring teams and players in the BCHL and while Victoria's Wade Murphy gained ground on Penticton's Connor Reilly for the scoring lead, it was the visiting Vees defeating the Grizzlies 5-4 for their 13th consecutive victory.
Penticton held a three-goal lead at three different points of the game but most importantly after Bryce Gervais' second of the game made it 5-2 in the third. After that, Braxton Bilous and Murphy – with his second of the game – got the Grizzlies within one but that was as close as they'd get.
Penticton scored the first three goals of the game and Victoria didn't get on the board until late in the second with Murphy's first of the night.
The Chilliwack Chiefs broke a 1-1 tie with a three-goal third period in a 4-1 win over the visiting Trail Smoke Eaters. Chilliwack fired 42 shots on 2nd Star James D'Andrea including 18 in the second period but it was David Bondra's tally that broke the deadlock in the first minute of the third.
A pair of third-period goals by Brandon Adams allowed the Alberni Valley Bulldogs to knock off the first-place Cowichan Valley Capitals and give new head coach Kevin Willison his first win. Tied 1-1 going into the final frame, Adams scored the game-winner and then added an empty-netter.
A pair of goals 18 seconds apart in the first period proved to be all the scoring the Langley Rivermen needed in a 4-1 win over the Nanaimo Clippers. Aidan Cavallini and Evan Campbell tallied at 9:01 and 9:19 before Brendan Taylor got the lone Clippers goal. Campbell got another early in the third.
Dante Godinho got two goals playing in just his second game with the Coquitlam Express and helped his team to a 4-1 win over the Surrey Eagles. Alex Hagen scored the first goal of the game for Surrey but Coquitlam got four unanswered with John Siemer and Malcolm McKinney also tallying.
The Merritt Centennials won a back-and-forth affair 4-3 over the Prince George Spruce Kings taking their first first lead of the night on Brandon Pfeil's goal early in the third and getting the winner from Evan Stack midway through the third. Chase Golightly and Jujhar Khaira each had two assists for PG.
A four-goal second period that included two goals by Connor Dempsey allowed the Westside Warriors to down the Vernon Vipers 5-2. Vernon scored first on Jedd Soleway's first-period goal but Max French tied it in the second and Devin Hascarl put Westside up a goal before Dempsey's pair. Adam Tambellini scored in the third for Vernon but Reid Simmon's empty-netter sealed it.
