Terriers/Stamps End Regular Seasons With Losses, Set For Playoffs

Jordan Menke scored 6 times in his last 6 games, including once in Saturday's 3-2 Yorkton Terrier loss in Weyburn to become the first Terrier in 3 years to score 20 goals.

In my three seasons at GX94, the Terriers have always been in the playoffs, but have always had 'defense-first' clubs, and no one had scored 20 since the 2006-07 season when Jordan's brother, Justin Menke, along with Chad Nehring and Derek Serdachny each eclipsed the 20-goal plateau.

Adam Moar also scored in his final regular season game for Yorkton, who wrap up the regular season with a record of 24-30-3-1 (52 points).

The Terriers visit Melville on Friday to kick off the Best-of-Five Survivor Series.

Melfort also clinched 3rd in the Bauer Conference and will face Battleford in the first round, while La Ronge meets Humboldt in the Bauer Survivor.

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Swan Valley's sort of limping into the playoffs, ending the season with a 9-4 loss in Dauphin. The Stamps went 3-5-0-1 in the month of February, and along with a double-digit Portage Terrier winning streak down the stretch, the Stamps wound up 3rd, and will start their first round series on the road vs the Terriers.

Carter Selinger scored twice for the Stampeders in Dauphin, giving him 17-goals and 52-points while playing in all 62 games in his 20 year old season. The other two 'iron men' for Swan this season were fellow 20 year olds Darcy Riddell and Chris Reimer.

Shelby Gray and Brent Wilson also scored on Saturday.

Shane Luke put up 5-points for Dauphin, to pass his linemate Ryan Dreger and win the MJHL Scoring crown with 101 pts. Dreger led the league with 53 goals. No one else scored 40, although if he's in the lineup, Selkirk's Taylor Dickin's sitting on 39 and has one last chance to hit 40 on Sunday.

Like their leading scorer, the Kings as a team also put up 101 points in the standings, including 50 wins. Pretty incredible with a 62 game schedule.

Swan Valley, who were predicted to be basement-dwellers in most pre-season picks, went 34-22-2-4 in 2009-10. Not too shabby.

Stay tuned for playoff schedules!