QUEBEC CITY, Que. - Jerome Verrier scored twice and the Quebec Remparts turned the tables on the Rimouski Oceanic with a 5-2 victory in the tiebreaker game at the Mastercard Memorial Cup on Thursday night.
Adam Erne, Anthony Duclair and Marc-Olivier Roy also scored for Quebec, which had lost its six previous meetings with Rimouski at the Pepsi Colisee including a 4-0 defeat on Wednesday night in round robin play at the four-team tournament.
The Remparts will face the Western Hockey League champion Kelowna Rockets in the semifinal Friday night. The winner plays the Ontario Hockey League champion Oshawa Generals (3-0) in the final on Sunday.
Samuel Morin and Jeremy Lepine scored for Rimouski, which was eliminated.
A sparse crowd of 6,533 turned out as the teams met for the ninth time in 24 days, including the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League final won in Game 7 overtime by the Oceanic.
On Wednesday night, the Oceanic dominated 4-0 and Quebec coach Philippe Boucher blasted the two QMJHL referees for bias against his team, for which he was fined $10,000.
With refs from Ontario and the West working the tiebreaker, the Remparts got the first three power plays and scored on the third one as Verrier, a 21-year-old undrafted forward, deflected Ryan Graves' point shot past Philippe Desrosiers at 17:19 of the first.
Morin tied it on a bullet, off-wing one-timer on a power play 2:32 into the second frame, but the Remparts answered at 3:58 when Duclair snapped a shot past Desrosiers off a drop pass from Kurt Etchegary.
Francois Beauchemin stripped the puck from Vladlimir Tkachev in the neutral zone and fed Lepine for a goal into an open side on Zach Fucale at 16:07, but again the Remparts answered right away as Desrosiers misplayed a clearing attempt and Erne scored from a scramble in the crease at 16:54.
Verrier went to the net to tip in Massimo Carozza's pass at 19:19.
Roy took a stretch pass at the far blue-line and tapped one in after a collision with Desrosiers at 11:31 of the third.
Duclair and Verrier were back in the lineup after both left Wednesday's game with injuries.
Fucale rebounded from being pulled the night before with a solid effort as Rimouski outshot Quebec 32-31.
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