Blazers suffer 4-3 overtime loss on home ice

KAMLOOPS — The Kamloops Blazers split their home-and-home weekend with the Kelowna Rockets, after they dropped a 4-3 decision in overtime Saturday (Oct. 3) at the Sandman Centre.

Drew Larioza opened the scoring for the Rockets 3:09 into the first period, but the Blazers responded seven minutes later when Teagen Bouchard scored his first ever WHL goal.

About two minutes later, Brady Ondrus made it two goals in two nights when he struck on the power play to make it 2-1 Blazers after one period.

Kelowna evened the score just 42 seconds into the second period when Eli Barrett struck on the power play. Ten minutes later, Madden Daneault put the Rockets up 3-2.