After going down 2-0 in the first two games of the series, the Estevan Apex AA Midget Bruins battled back in games three and four to tie the series up and get their home ice advantage back for the fifth and final game of the series against the Notre Dame Hounds. Zane Winter has been in the crease all four games, and in the last two victories had only allowed a single goal in each game. 

In the first period, the Bruins would get on the board right away, only four minutes in when Tanner Stovin would put in the games first goal on a passing play from Kelby Widenmaier just 3:04 into the game. 

Only a 1:45 later however, the Hounds would tie it up right away when Keegan Willier-Ferguson found the net for Notre Dame to tie it up. From there, the Bruins would look a little flat for the remainder of the period, and the Hounds would take advantage and the lead a little over halfway through the first period when they would take the lead from a call up player, James Wiebe, would find the net to make it a 2-1 game after the first. The Bruins were outshot 15-10 in the period.

In the second period, the Bruins would start to look a little more alive and start to push back, but despite a single chance on the powerplay in the twenty minute frame, not a single stat would be added to the scoresheet other than a few shots on goal. They would take the lead on the shot clock 28-26.

The Bruins would come out a little slow in the third period, much the same as the first, and the Hounds would again take advantage just over two minutes in when Jaxon Krupa would score for his team, making it 3-1 for the Hounds and a tough road to climb. 

The road would get a little easier at the halfway point of the period with a powerplay, but the two minute tripping call would go by and the Bruins would be forced to tie it up at 5-on-5. It started to look as if all hopes were lost when Zane Winter went to the bench to give the Bruins an extra man on the ice, and their efforts thanks to Tristan Sorenson sitting in front of the net, tipping in a shot from Dalton Schrader at the point, 3-2 Hounds, 2:16 left to go.

"Our assistant coach, Dustin Stepp, he just kind of drew up a play when we were down by two, and it happened to work right away which was huge," says head coach Riley Hengen. "Once that second one went in, it got the boys excited late in the game and it just carried over the momentum for a couple moments later and we tied it up."

Thirty-six seconds later, Dylan Hull would become the second hero of the period for the Bruins when a scramble in front would leave the puck on his stick, and Hull would be the lucky one to smack it passed Notre Dame's goaltender Trey Olson-Deobald and tie the game with 1:40 to go.

The third period would end a 3-3 tie, and so teams would take a rest at their benches, talk a little strategy, and get ready for a 10 minute overtime period. The teams would battle back and forth to no avail in the ten minutes, meaning the ice would need a flood and the teams would need a fifth period.

Reffering back to the start of the game, just over three minutes in, #21 Tanner Stovin got the scoring started. In the fifth, and final frame, the Bruins would get their third and final hero of the night. To the right side of the net, Jared Fornwald would pick up a loose puck and make a move to get passed one defender, then skate towards the slot, looking for a pass. No one there. Instead, he had room of his own, enough to curl the puck back into the back of his stick blade and send a backhand towards the net, under the arm of Olson-Deobald, and into the net.

Jared Fornwald: unassisted overtime winner. Game over, 4-3 Estevan, Bruins move on to the second round.

"It's unbelievable. It's just... it's one of a kind you could say, I don't know if I'll ever score a goal that big again in my life," says an overly excited Jared Fornwald after putting in the game winner.

The AA Midget Bruins now wait to see who their opponent will be, either the Weyburn John Hubert Construction Wings or the Prairie Storm Extreme Hockey. Their series is all tied up at 2-2 with game five on Thursday.