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How could the Penticton Vees top their historic win on Tuesday night? How about by hitting double-digits on the score sheet for the first time this season, in a 10-1 drubbing of Salmon Arm

Penticton's 31st consecutive win leaves them  twenty points clear of second place in the BCHL overall standings and nudge closer to clinching the BCHL Regular Season Pennant.

Sixteen year-old Cody DePourcq kicked off the scoring on a hard-working shift inside the Salmon Arm zone. The puck worked its way to Grant Nicholson who unleashed a shot from the slot; the rebound jammed past Kurt Williams by DePourcq just shy of the six minute mark of the first.

The Vees found another gear scoring three goals in an eight minute span to go up by four after twenty minutes.

Steven Fogarty scored one minute and thirty-one seconds after DePourcq on an individual rush through the Silverbacks end. Mario Lucia added another just over five minutes later; scoring from the right-circle on a pass from Troy Stecher. Stecher himself capped off the first period scoring with a slap-shot from the blue-line two and a half minutes after Lucia.

DePourcq and Lucia highlighted the scoring in the middle-frame; both finding their second goals of the night. Ryan Reilly added the other to give the Vees a seven goal lead after 40.

The slippery DePourcq borrowed from another sport to pot his second of the game.

Just before the eleven minute mark, the Denver Pioneer Commitment connected on a baseball like swing from the top of the crease; Curtis Loik’s centring pass took a deflection, creating the lob to DePourcq. The goal came just ten seconds after Reilly’s, giving Penticton a sizable lead heading into the third.

Ryan Reilly became the third Vees player to score his second goal of the game in the final frame. Other tally’s included Curtis Loik scoring the teams’ twelfth short-handed goal and Connor Reilly scoring the tenth with just over three minutes left.

Penticton is right back at it on Saturday, hosting the Westside Warriors for the final time in the regular season; puck drop is 5:00 p.m.

--By Fraser Rodgers