Ken Alexander Free Press The 100 Mile House Wranglers will see another banner on display after knocking off the Chase Heat 2-1 in Chase to clinch the Doug Birks Division playoff title in game 6 on March 11. However, fans were nervous after the Wranglers were significantly out-played and shutout 4-0 by a desperate Heat squad in 100 Mile House in game 5 the night before. Coach Dale Hladun says he wasn’t happy with the team effort in the March 10 game. “Full kudos to Chase; that’s a good club. Their power play is dangerous and we’ve been managing to kill off a lot of penalties against them, but they were bound to get few in the net and sure enough they got two that game.” Hladun says his boys seemed to be getting mentally tired and were making mistakes in the back end. “The pace Chase initiated... they deserved to win. “In a weird way, that game may have set us up for the mental toughness and focus we had for the next game.” Game 6 Hladun made a couple of changes for game 6 in Chase that produced golden results. His first decision was to start Adam Derochie to give Zane Steeves, who had been outstanding during the series, a rest. “I felt if the series did go seven games, I wanted to make sure Zane Steeves was very rested. He’s been such a huge part of our run that I didn’t want to wear him out if there was a game 7 because we were going to need him leading the charge for us. “And we had full confidence in Derochie and he needed a game and we needed to get him into a game.' He started game 6 and to [no one's] surprise, he stood on his head and was the game star. “He’s such a breath of fresh air for us and such a hard-working kid.” Hladun says Chase had a good tempo and got a goal in the first period, so he decided to move Michael Lynch into the back end at the start of the second period to give the defensive corps a seven-man rotation. “Our D has been working so hard and they’re pretty beat up and banged ... they’re tired and sore, and when you’re tired and sore, you make mental mistakes. “So, by adding an extra defenceman like Lynch, who can carry the puck out of our end and move the puck out, and rotating him in, just gave some life to all our boys in the back end. I think Michael turned the game around for us.” He notes Lynch set up both Wrangler goals. Meanwhile, Williams Lake product Justin Bond scored both goals in the third period: tying goal at 16:57 with the assist going to Lynch; and 12:32 on the power play with Lynch and Ryan Friesen getting the helpers. Hladun says the six-foot-one 175-pound forward is a pure scorer. Noting a lot of different guys are scoring goals in important games, the coach says, “there’s Justin Bond stepping up to be a big-game scorer.”