Mustangs fall to Stars in game one of SJHL semi-final

The Melfort Mustangs have fallen behind 1-0 in their best-of-seven semi-final series against the Battlefords North Stars.

It was a 5-2 final in favour of the Stars who outshot the Mustangs 39-28 in the game.

The Mustangs were tied 1-1 with the Stars through 20 minutes of play, with the help of a late – 0.4 seconds remaining – goal from Ben Tkachuk, but in the second period, the Stars took things to the Mustangs and led 3-1 after two. Mustangs Assistant Coach Dan Meyers said they had the gameplan in motion in the first, but didn’t follow through the rest of the way.

“They have a lot of top end players there,” Meyers said. “And to get physical on them, I think we did that in the first, but we didn’t continue it.”