The Norman Vipers ( A Major Novice) team put together with players from Flin Flon, The Pas, Thompson and Swan River competed for the Portage Cup last weekend.

This is a Triple "A" Tournament with teams from all over Manitoba competing. The local players from Flin Flon were:
Rogan Bacon(goal), Caiden Simard(goal), Magnus Pearson (center), Nolan Rideout(l.wing), Austin Weseen (defence) and Michael Rideout Watling(defence-forward).  

The Vipers lost their first game to Brandon 8-1 then rebounded to beat Morden 9-7. In the Vipers third round robin game they showed some character by coming back from a 6-3 deficit to give Pembina Valley all they could handle and ended up losing 8-7 in a heart breaker. A late controversial goal was the diffence.

The Vipers finished third in their pool and ended played Virden in the Consolation final. The Vipers ran out of gas and lost the game 9-3 to finish in 6th place.