SURREY — The Surrey Eagles (0-6-0-0) took a brief lead against the Okotoks Oilers (2-2-0-0), who made their first BCHL appearance at South Surrey Arena, with Lucas DiGiantommaso’s fifth goal of this season’s campaign from Gavin Rocha, and Dryden Kuramoto on the power play.
Brett Wilson returned fire for the visiting Oilers with their own power play marker three minutes later, before Okotoks topped off the first period with two more goals in the span of five minutes to take a 3-1 lead, holding a 14-8 shot advantage over Surrey.
A scoreless second set up for a big third period, which saw both teams get on the board. However, it was the Oilers who did so twice at the middle point of the final frame, and within two minutes of each other, to take a commanding 5-1 lead. With the game pretty much decided, Rocha scored a shorthanded goal, assisted by Nishaan Parmar, giving Surrey’s special team a bonus for killing off the penalty and getting one back. 5-2 Oilers.
Final shots of the game were 31-26 in favour of the Oilers as Eric Young picked up the win for the visitors and Nathan Claydon picked up the loss for the Eagles. FortisBC Energy Player of the Game was DiGiantommaso, while Rocha picked up the third star for Surrey.
