The Penticton Vees and Salmon Arm Silverbacks both advanced to the third round of the playoffs after each eliminating their opponents in five games.
On Friday night, Thomas Pichette scored in overtime as Penticton rallied to defeat the Vernon Vipers in Game 5 of their second-round series.
The 2-1 victory earned the Vees a 4-1 series victory, meaning Penticton will now play in its third consecutive conference final.Erik Pastro opened the scoring, making it 1-0 for Vernon at 3:00 of the third following 40 minutes of scoreless hockey.Will Ingemann stopped 14 of 15 shots for Penticton. For Vernon, Ethan David had a stellar performance against the two-time defending league champions, stopping 38 of 40 shots.
Terik Parascak, Bauer Dumanski, Hudson Thornton, Ondrej Becher and Koehn Ziemmer scored for Prince George in a game that saw 68 shots on net. Ravensbergen stopped all 33 shots fired his way. At the other end, Jan Spunar stopped 30 of 35 shots for Portland, which trailed 1-0 and 4-0 at the period breaks.Prince George was 1-for-3 on the power play while Portland was 0-for-1. The attendance at CN Centre was a standing-room crowd of 6,011.
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