For the first time in team history the Boissevain Border Kings are Tiger Hills Hockey League champions.

The hometown Border Kings scored four powerplay goals, and one while shorthanded Saturday night, and defeated Gladstone 8-1 ending the Lakers reign as THHL champions. Boissevain swept the best of five final three games to none.

Boissevain goaltender Cody Matthewson made 28 saves in game three.

“The series was great,” Matthewson told CJRB’s Tyler Addison. “This game here, this is how we could played all year long. They battled and we just came out flying tonight. It was a great game for us.”

Chris Low and Tyler Dittmer scored two goals each for the Border Kings while the rest went to Jared Dueck, Skylar Canada, Jagger Thomas and Kelly Glowa.

“Obviously we had high expectations going into this year,” said Boissevain defenceman Travis Mealy who had three assists in game three. “We lost a couple of tough ones to Killarney and honestly that was the series that we were focused on the most – getting past them. Personally I lost to them five years in a row. For being 90% local, that team is pretty unbelievable. You don’t come across that too often in senior hockey and hats off to them. We had a good series against them. That was a big personal feat for myself beating them and moving forward near the end of my career. Gladstone was a good team...individually skilled and not to knock them but as a team game, it wasn’t like the series with Killarney that’s for sure.”

Drew Selin had the lone goal for the Lakers who received a 30-save performance from Danny Hall.

It’s the Border Kings first championship since they won the Southwest Hockey League final in 2009.

Boissevain will join the winners of the South Eastern Manitoba Hockey League and the Carillon Senior Hockey League as well as the North Central Hockey League champion Miniota/Elkhorn C-Hawks at Hockey Manitoba’s Provincial Senior A Championship which takes place March 28, 29, 31, April 5 & 6.