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Okanagan influence in Team B.C. win

Three Okanagan Rockets and one Kelowna Rockets prospect help B.C. to gold at WHL Cup in Calgary.
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Okanagan Rocketsѻý forward Ben King scored the overtime winner in Team B.C.ѻýs gold medal victory in Calgary -Image: Taylor Rocca/WHL

Three members of the Okanagan Rockets and a Kelowna Rockets propsect all had a hand in Team B.C.ѻýs gold medal effort at the 2017

Ben King, a forward with the BCMMLѻýs Rockets and Swift Current Broncosѻý draft pick, scored the winner in overtime Sunday to send in the championship game of the annual U16 tournament.

ѻý(Cole Shepard, Vancouver Giants) moved it up to the point and I just tried to get a screen,ѻý King said of the game winner. ѻý(Ryan Watson, Medicine Hat Tigers) took a shot and I tried to get a stick on it.

ѻýI tipped it and looked and it went post and in and everyone went crazy. It was a good feeling.ѻý

Kingѻýs Okanagan teammates, forward Jack Finley (Spokane) and defenceman Tanner Brown (Vancouver) were also members of the Team B.C. roster, as was Ethan Bowen, the Kelowna Rocketsѻý first round pick in the 2017 WHL bantam draft.

Finley and King finished the five-game tournament with two goals each. Bowen had a goal and two assists, while Brown finished with a goal and an assist.

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