With a 6-4 win over the Notre Dame Hounds (Wilcox, SK), Shawnigan Lake School (Shawnigan Lake, BC) has won the 2026 Canadian Sport School Hockey League (CSSHL) U17 Prep Division II Western Championship.
Notre Dame took an early lead thanks to a power play goal by Matthew Boekelder 1:47 in. Lukas Lundgren doubled the lead midway through the period as he scored his second goal of the playoffs. Darwin Ketch (2G, 1A) would get Shawnigan Lake on the board 2:18 later as the defenseman scored his fourth goal of the West Championships.
Matthew Steele (1G, 2A) tied the game 12:29 into the second as he combined with Case Bartley (3A) and Matthew Morris (1G, 1A) for a pretty passing play that lead to Steele taping the puck into the empty net. However, Notre Dame would need just 22 seconds to respond as Reg Huebner beat Liam Chamberlain (24/28) for his third, giving them a 3-2 lead heading into the third.
Spencer Currie would tie the game briefly as he scored his third of the Championships 4:41 into the third. Notre Dame would once again have an answer as Ethan Schwartz (1G, 1A) put them back in front 2:16 later. Shawnigan would tie the game on another three way passing play between Morris, Steele and Bartley, as Morris finished it off with the back door tap-in.
This time Notre Dame would not restore their lead, and it was a Ketch point shot that beat Caden Smith (23/28) to put Shawnigan in front for the first time with 8:19 left to play.
Notre Dame would pull their goal with a little less than two minutes to play, but Egan Kenny would add an empty netter with 47 seconds left to secure the Shawnigan victory.
This was Shawnigan’s fifth CSSHL Western Championship, having won U17 Prep Division I four times, most recently in 2018/19.
