The Steinbach Pistons beat the Virden Oil Capitals in game 4 in Virden by a score of 5-3 to give them a 3-1 series lead and a chance to close it out in Steinbach on Saturday.
The Oil Caps came out firing, drawing first blood a minute and a half into the game. Steinbach struggled to get the puck out of their zone with Roux Bazin eventually finding Joey Bielik on a back door feed to make it 1-0.
Midway through the first period the Pistons would even up the score 1-1. Warren Clark made a great sprawled out defensive play to disrupt the Oil Capitals rush. Clark got the puck up to Parker Jasper who then found Travis Hensrud gunning it into the Oil Capitals end who then wired it past LaRocque.
No teams would get any powerplay opportunities in the first period and the game would go into the first intermission tied 1-1.
Virden would have another great start to a period, scoring just over a minute into the second period. Bray Rookes got the puck in the slot with a Pistons defender on him but turned around and fired it on net and past Wasik to make it 2-1.
Two and a half minutes later the Pistons would strike and tie the game up. Langley Kruggel put the puck on net through bodies with the loose puck bouncing around eventually to Kirk Mullen on the doorstep who would then tap it in to make it 2-2.
With under five minutes left in the second period, the Pistons would take their first lead of the game. The Oil Capitals turned over the puck to Kirk Mullen at the right faceoff dot who then got it to Dawson Milliken in the slot through the legs with Milliken putting it over the blocker of LaRocque.
Just over a minute later Steinbach would extend their lead to 4-2. Hunter Degelman flipped the puck out of the Pistons zone with Davin Griffin tracking it down and with a partial breakaway he slipped it between the glove and pads of LaRocque and into the net.
Virden would get a late one, bringing the score to 4-3 with under a minute left in the second period. Davis Chorney would get the puck behind the Pistons net off a dump in, putting it out front with Josh Lehto finding it and putting it past Wasik.
Midway through the third period Kirk Mullen would get his second goal of the game to restore the Pistons two goal lead. Off a clean breakout, Milliken got the puck to Mullen in the neutral zone who then closed in on net with what did not look like a dangerous scoring chance, but he wrung it off the post and in to make it 5-3.
Steinbach almost made it 6-3 late in the third period with the Virden goalie pulled, but Ty Paisley would hit the post. Steinbach would close out the game, winning 5-3 and heading back to Steinbach with a 3-1 series lead.