After falling 2-0 to the Regina Rebels last night to end their playoff hopes, the Diamond Energy Female Midget AAA Wildcats ended their round-robin and tournament on a high note this afternoon.

The Wildcats were victorious in their final game of the tournament in a 4-2 win over the Fraser Valley Rush.

Swift Current got the jump in the first period on a power-play goal from Layne Hryhoriw with 6:19 left in the frame.

The Wildcats lead was erased 40 seconds into the second period, however, as Rush forward Hayley Chang snuck a puck past goalie Harper Davey to make it 1-1.

The evenly-matched game would extend through most of the middle frame until Brynne Doerksen gave Swift Current a 2-1 lead on a goal with 8:27 remaining.

The Wildcats struck short-handed five minutes later when Taylor Lind solved Rush netminder Jordyn Verbeek to give Swift the 3-1 lead - a lead they carried into the second intermission.

Fraser Valley managed to strike first in the third period to cut the lead to one off the stick of Katie Chan.

But, the one-goal Wildcats lead was short-lived - forward Kenedee Klevgaard increased the lead back to two 1:31 later.

That 4-2 lead would be carried out through the final 14:20 of regulation to give Swift Current a 2-2 round-robin record.

Harper Davey stopped 9 of 11 Fraser Valley shots to record the win in net.

It was a solid, even offensive performance for the Wildcats - a necessity as Taylor Lind, the team's leading scorer this season, scored just her second goal in four games at the tournament.

"We talked about the importance for us to get secondary scoring," said head coach Terry Pavely. "We've got arguably the best offensive kid at our level, and maybe western Canada [in Lind]. The reality of it is that teams key on her now. In some games against good teams, it's really difficult for her."

"We had four different goal-scorers and that's what we need to be successful moving forward because it's going to be tough for our top line a lot of times," Pavely admitted. "Today we got contributions offensively from lots of different people. We ended up with eight different people on the scoresheet out of the four goals - that's what we really need."

Giving up just those 11 shots in the game, Pavely was also impressed with the defensive effort of his team to finish their 2017 Mac's tournament.

"We did an excellent job of containing their forward group and breaking us out of our zone. We were really happy with the way we played defensively, not just the defencemen - it starts with good play in the neutral zone, and forwards who backcheck and pick up their check. We did a really good job of that today."

Swift Current played the game with five defencemen, as rookie Ryleigh White was out of the lineup with an injury.

Also missing from the blue-line was captain Taylor Kirwan, who missed Friday's game against the Regina Rebels as well, as she's in Toronto prepping with Team Canada ahead of the 2018 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship.

The defenceman, along with the rest of the Canadian roster, will be in Dmitrov, Russia for the tournament which runs from January 6-13.

That means the Taylor Kirwan-less Wildcats will be without their captain for most likely four, maybe five league games.

The Wildcats start the new year with two home games against the Weyburn Goldwings. Swift started their season on the road against that same Weyburn squad, winning 7-0 on September 16 and 5-2 the next day.

"We're going to make sure that we're ready to play," Pavely said regarding their southeast opponent. "They're a team that's getting better. They work extremely hard - if we're not ready to compete and take them for granted at all, that's when things get tough. You don't want to be that team that loses to them. If it's close, the longer that goes on, they start to believe they might win and get a little more energy. For us, we're just going to really focus on playing our game."

The Wildcats (7-6-0-3) and Goldwings (0-15-0-1) play January 6 and 7 at Fairview West arena.