The Pat Duke Memorial Arena in Lumby may get some renos, should it win the title of Kraft Hockeyville 2016.
But there is another banner to be added to its rafters, courtesy of the Lumby Atom Stars, who finished a perfect season at 28-0 by winning the Okanagan Valley championship.
The Stars outlasted Logan Lake in the final 8-4, exploding for six goals in the final period.
In round robin play, the Stars got off to a good start by blanking Princeton 6-0 on Friday afternoon. Saturday morning had the Stars get off to their usual slow start but finding their legs in the second period and getting by Ashcroft in a spirited affair, 9-0.
After 141 minutes of tournament play, the Stars finally gave up a goal against Logan Lake in the third round robin game, a 14-4 win.
To finish off the season the coach (who doesn’t want to be named) decided to leave out all names of who scored and got assists from the weekend. It was a team first, teamwork, win and lose as a team attitude all season and it didn’t matter who scored the goals or got assists, it was about working together on a process.
The Vernon Corbett Office Plus Midget Kings settled for silver at the Okanagan Valley Midget League house hockey championships in Ashcroft.
The North Okanagan Super League champs fell 6-2 to the strong Kelowna Flyers in Sunday’s championship game. The Flyers put the game away with a pair of empty net goals.
Ryley Johnson and Brett Lambert scored for the Kings, while Ethan Huizinga was spectacular in goal for the Kings.
Corbett Office opened the valleys against the Flyers, losing 4-2 with Kelowna again sealing the win with an empty net marker.
Johnson, set up by Cole Benjaminson, and Lambert, assisted by Johnson, scored for the Kings, who got a solid game in goal from Noah Foufoulas.
Vernon bounced back in its second contest, clobbering the host Ashcroft squad 10-0 behind a Sebastian Wenger hat trick.
Benjaminsen had 2+1, Macguire Gilchrist, Alyssa Racine and Leland Riguedell each had 1+1 while Lambert and Johnson rounded out the scoring.
The Kings secured a spot in the final with six unanswered goals in a 6-1 romp over Lillooet. Reid Lawrence and Lambert each had two goals for Corbett Office while singles went to Benjaminsen and Liam Hennig.
Noah DeBalinhard had two assists.
The Kings would like to thank their head coach Ross Jewell, assistant coaches Ron Racine, Jody Lambert and Brad Shaigec and manager Cheryl Lambert for an excellent season of hockey.
