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The Whitehorse Bantam Mustangs put on quite a show in front of the home crowd this weekend.

The squad, sponsored by Mic鈥圡ac Toyota, went undefeated in five games to win the 2014 WMHA鈥圛nternational Showdown Tournament鈥檚 bantam division.

The club stamped an exclamation mark on their fine weekend with an 8-1 blowout win Sunday morning in their final matchup against the Yellowknife Wolfpack.

A good crowd took in the game at the Canada Games Centre, which actually saw the Wolfpack strike first to go up 1-0 early in the second.

But it was all Mustangs from there. Dylan Cozens scored the first of his two goals just over two minutes later to tie the game, and then the onslaught began.

Joe Stokes, Bryce Anderson, Isaac Williamson, Niall Lawrie, Johnny Elias and Dylan Kindervater also found the back of the net as the Mustangs galloped away.

Starting goalie Ethan Vanderkley secured the win in net for Whitehorse.

Head coach Martin Lawrie said he was excited to see contributions from all lines in鈥圫unday鈥檚 final.

鈥淲e鈥檙e starting to see that depth with the team,鈥� he told the Star.

鈥淲e won every third period we played here. A couple games were pretty good hockey games up until the third period, when we took over.

鈥淚t points to some depth. I think teams have trouble playing 60 minutes against us. We wear them down.鈥�

Lawrie said he hopes to take his Tier 3 squad to Vancouver Island next month to test their mettle against some Tier 1 teams.

鈥淚 think this weekend was the last of our Tier 3 hockey until we hit provincials,鈥� he said.

The Mustangs beat Wasilla鈥檚 Matsu Eagles 9-2 to start their weekend Friday, before downing the Wolfpack by the same score that night.

On Saturday, they shut out the Juneau Capitals 5-0, before again besting Matsu 7-4 in a playoff to advance to Sunday鈥檚 final.

Matsu went to beat their Alaskan rivals from Juneau 8-3 to win bronze.

Meanwhile, in the peewee division, the Mustangs finished their weekend on a strong note with a 5-0 win over Matsu to win bronze.

Saul Gale led the way with two goals, while goalie Quinn Howard recorded the shutout.

Kyron Crosby, Ashton Underhill and Errol Ekholm also had goals in Sunday morning鈥檚 third-place game at Takhini Arena.

Yellowknife鈥檚 powerhouse Wolfpack team defeated the Fort Nelson Bluebell 10-0 to win the peewee final.

鈥淥ur expectation was to do better,鈥� head coach Kirk鈥圙ale admitted today. 鈥淲e wanted to play Yellowknife in the one-two game. ... We didn鈥檛 play as well as we should have or could have in the game against Fort Nelson, which in essence came back to haunt us.鈥�

The young Mustangs beat Matsu 8-4 to open their tournament Friday, but fell to Fort Nelson 4-2 that afternoon.

On Saturday, they pummelled Juneau 13-0 before losing to Yellowknife 6-3 in what would be the toughest competition the Wolfpack would face over the weekend.

Hosting teams from British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and Alaska was special for the Mustangs organization, Gale said.