All the Northwest Giants needed was a win, and they got it.
The Giants won a seventh consecutive B.C. major midget hockey league title, narrowly edging runner-up Okanagan Rockets by a single point in the final regular season standings.
The Burnaby-based Giants swept its two-game swept with the Cariboo Cougars in Prince George, while Okanagan only needed to do the same at home against the Northeast Chiefs to place first overall. They couldn’t do it, tying the fifth-place Chiefs 7-7 in their opening game on Saturday.
In fact, the Rockets became the victims of their own complacency, giving up five unanswered goals in the opening six minutes of the period to drop what proved to be a valuable point to the Giants.
The Giants blanked the Cougars 7-0 in their opening game and then ensured themselves of a seventh straight regular season title with a 4-1 win on Sunday. Colton Kerfoot led the Giants in the title-winning victory with a hat trick.
