Late goals sink Tigers in third straight loss
VICTORIA, B.C. — Jimmy Hamblin went above and beyond, but a pair of late goals by the Victoria Royals handed the Medicine Hat Tigers their third straight loss.
Tyler Soy forced overtime with a late third period goal, and Noah Gregor finished it off in the extra frame, leading the Royals to a 4-3 victory over the visiting Tigers at Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena on Friday night.
Matthew Phillips and Kade Jensen also scored for the Royals, who pull withing two points of the Kelowna Rockets for first place in the B.C. Division with a 32-14-3-1 record.
Medicine Hat falls to 26-21-7-0 on the season, but remain first place in the Central Division by three points over the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Now losers of eight of the last 10, the Tigers will look to bump off their three-game slump with a victory in Vancouver to wrap up a four-game road trip Saturday night.