A pair of hat tricks for the Wawota Flyers helped the two-time defending Big Six Champions start the new season with a pair of wins following Tuesday night's 7-4 victory over the Oxbow Huskies.

Top forwards Riley Riddell and Taylor Ernst each potted three goals, and along with Kevin Lincoln combined for 15 points as a line, en route to the road win for Wawota.

With the Flyers' sporting a depleted roster, the host Oxbow Huskies started the game with a lot of speed and jumped out to the early lead.

Klae Bayda finished off a quick transition play with a fancy deke through the five-hole of Flyers' goaltender Guillaume Blouin to get Oxbow out to a 1-0 lead.

Shortly thereafter, Wawota would bounce back as new defenceman Landon Polk fired a shot through a screen on the powerplay to even the score at 1-1. The two teams would trade goals once again before the end of the first period, with Oxbow's Brycen Odgers responding for the Huskies and Ernst getting his first of the game late in the frame to make it 2-2 after 20 minutes.

Just as an extended 5-on-3 powerplay expired for Wawota, Ernst's second goal of the game gave the Flyers their first lead of the night at 3-2. However, the Huskies would tie it up once again before the end of the period as Oxbow captain Corey Fitzpatrick blasted a shot top corner on the powerplay to make it 3-3 heading into the third period.

That's when the Flyers began pulling away, led by last year's leading playoff scorer Riley Riddell. The perennial point-producer wristed his first goal of the new season past the blocker of Oxbow's Ethan Veroba early in the period to put Wawota up 4-3. Just minutes later, Ernst would finish off the hat trick with his third goal of the game to give the Flyers their first two-goal lead of the game.

Less than a minute later, Riddell's second goal made it 6-3 for the Flyers as they quickly created separation from the Huskies. Oxbow would score with 3:33 left in regulation to make it 6-4 and gave the Huskies hope for a late-game comeback.

But while shorthanded and facing six Oxbow attacker, Riddell capped off a third-period hat trick by firing the puck into the yawning cage to ice the game at 7-4.

Riddell (3G, 3A), Ernst (3G, 2A) and Lincoln (4A) were on the ice for all seven Wawota goals as the Flyers improve to (2-0) early this season. Meanwhile, Oxbow falls back to the .500 mark at (2-2).