By Mitch Bach

Jevne tallies two as Tigers double up Blazers

Dec 12, 2018 | 8:12 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — Ryan Jevne’s scoring surge continued against the Kamloops Blazers on Wednesday night.

The overage assistant captain recorded his third straight multi-point game, leading the Medicine Hat Tigers to a 4-2 victory over the Blazers at the Canalta Centre.

The victory leap-frogs the Tigers into the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, one point clear of the Brandon Wheat Kings who have three games in hand.

Mads Sogaard, who will join his Danish teammates for the World Juniors later this month, stopped 36 shots for his ninth win of the season.

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Dylan Ferguson made 31 saves in the loss.

Medicine Hat has now won three games in a row for the first time since mid-October.

Coming off a second consecutive three-point performance over the weekend, Jevne scored the opening marker 5:38 into the game. He sniped a high snap-shot over the glove of Blazers net minder Dylan Ferguson for his 15th of the season.

Tyler Preziuso extended the Tigers lead to 2-0 later in the first, tapping in a sneaky, goal-line pass from rookie Carson Hopwo.

Jevne secured his third straight multi-point performance with a shorthanded marker 4:35 into the second period. Moments after the Blazers rang it off the post, causing the goal judge to flick the red light on mistakenly, the 20-year-old muscled his way through a pair of defenders and snuck home his second of the night between the legs of Ferguson.

Kamloops closed out the second period with a a pair of goals. Their first tally came from Connor Zary burying a pass from Martin Lang on a two-on-one.

With just over two minute left, Blazers assistant captain Brodi Stuart cut the home team’s lead to one, finding a hole under the glove of Sogaard from the left circle.

Tigers rookie defenceman Daniel Baker swung the momentum back to the home-team, scoring his second career goal on a screened Ferguson from long range. This strengthened the Tigers lead to 4-2 early in the third. Baker’s first career tally came last Wednesday in Moose Jaw.

Neither team capitalized on the power play, with the Tigers held scoreless on five opportunities and the Blazers unable to score on two occasions.

Medicine Hat has two games to go before taking a 13-day break for the holidays. They’ll take a trip to Red Deer to face the Rebels on Friday, then take on the Kelowna Rockets at the Canalta Centre on Saturday.