The Female Midget AAA Central Plains Capitals saw victory slip away tonight against the Yellowhead Chiefs.  They fell by a final score of 5-4 in a shootout.

It was the Chiefs getting on the board first when Marley Quesnel managed to bang in a rebound past Caps goalie Ella Wiebe.  The Capitals would get it back quickly though.  Capitals Captain Chloe Snaith let a wrist shot go from the point that hit a defender's leg and deflected in.  Snaith would get her second of the period when she fired a knuckle puck that seemed to fool everyone including Chiefs goalie Sadie McIntosh.  The Capitals would control the play for much of the frame and would take a 2-1 lead into the dressing room.

It was more Central Plains in the second as Maegan Inman would net her 17th goal of the year.  McIntosh would bobble a dump in and Inman jumped all over her, batting the puck into the empty cage to give the Caps a 3-1 lead.  The Chiefs answered quickly though as Jena Barscello went top shelf on Wiebe to draw Yellowhead within one.  Central Plains would regain the two-goal lead when Amy Klippenstein banged in a loose puck during a scramble in front of the Chiefs net.  The Caps would take that lead to the break and looked poised to come away with the win.

After controlling play for much of the third period, the Capitals let off the gas and the Chiefs took advantage.  Quesnel would score her second of the night shorthanded on a partial breakaway.  Then, with less than seven minutes left to play, Trinity Tanner would bang in a loose puck past Wiebe to tie the game.  Overtime solved nothing so the teams went to a shootout.  In the shootout, Rylee Gluska of Yellowhead would score the only goal.  

After the game, Capitals Head Coach Ferdi Nellison talked about the game.

"We can't make those mistakes in the last half of the third period when we're dominating.  We dominated the first ten minutes of that period and then we make mistakes.  They did not earn two points, we gave them two points and we lost a point out of it, that's disappointing.  We didn't play two bad hockey games this weekend, we actually played two pretty good games and we only come out of it with one point."

The Capitals will look to rebound when they travel to Gimli to face the Interlake Lightning on January 19th.  Puck drop is 7:00pm.