The Vernon Vipers maintained what the Salmon Arm SilverBacks started in Games 1 and 2 with a 5-1 road win to pick up their first victory of the conference finals.
The visiting team has now won each game so far and Salmon Arm leads the series 2-1.
Vernon also kept with a trend that has gone on all series by outshooting Salmon Arm in the game but had more to show for it on the scoreboard. In the first, veterans David Robinson and Bryce Kakoske put the Snakes up 2-0 before Brett Knowles replied for the Gorillas.
The score stayed 2-1 until Michael Zalewksi scored for Vernon at 15:15 of the second. Salmon Arm had little response in the third, mustering just four shots to Vernon's 13. The Vipers got additional goals from Patrick McGillis and Dylan Walchuk to seal it.
Robinson had a goal and an assist in earning 1st Star while Kirby Halcrow turned aside 16 shots to get the win in net.
In Surrey, the Eagles poured it on in a furious third-period comeback effort but fell short in a 3-2 loss to the Powell River Kings who now lead the series 2-1.
Outshot 28-13 and down 3-0 after two periods, the Eagles fired 26 shots on Michael Garteig in the final frame and scored twice but couldn't find the tying goal.
Chad Niddery opened the scoring on the power play midway through the first. The Kings added to their lead early in the second with another man-advantage marker by Jon Jutzi and got what would be the winner from Bond Hawryluk not long after.
Surrey didn't hit the scoresheet until Steve Koshey's power-play goal at 5:51 of the third. Richard Vanderhoek tallied with just under four minutes left to get the home side within one but that was as close as they'd come.
Kings blueliner Craig Dalrymple set up the first two goals of the game and took 1st Star. The shots on goal wound up 39-34 in favour of Surrey.
Game 4 of both these series goes Tuesday night in Salmon Arm and Surrey. Both games begin at 7 p.m.
