The Miniota/Elkhorn C-Hawks are Hockey Manitoba Provincial Senior "A" champions. 

Shawn Bowles had three goals and two assists as the Tiger Hills Hockey League champions defeated the Ste. Anne Aces 7-3 Sunday night at the East End Arena in Winnipeg in the deciding third game of the Manitoba Cup final. 

Brad Cole, Taylor Sanheim, Curtis Gardham and Dillin Stonehouse also scored for the C-Hawks who led 5-0 early in the second period. 

Tanner Harms, Keith Grondin and Brenden Walker replied for the South Eastern Manitoba Hockey League champions. 

Harms and Grondin scored three minutes apart midway through the middle frame. 

Walker's power play goal with 39 seconds left in the period made it a 5-3 game.

"It was kind of a bit of a rollercoaster of emotions," said Miniota-Elkhorn captain Devrin Stonehouse. "First period we're all over them. Played like we meant to play. In the second period we kind of unraveled a bit. They're a really good team. Sometimes we don't recoup from that, but everyone said the right things in the dressing room in-between the second and third and we came out and did the same thing we did in the first."

The Aces had a chance to cut the deficit to one but failed to score with the man advantage to start the third period. 

Gardham's goal 5:39 into the final frame extended the C-Hawks lead to 6-3. 

"We came out flat again and that's kind of been the thing for us all year," noted Ste. Anne coach Kevin Lansard. "We talked in the room, and we believe in ourselves. We really thought we could make a push to get back in this game and we did. We had numerous chances in that second period. If that period would have been two or three minutes longer, we might have tied it. That flood for them couldn't have come any quicker and they did what they needed to do in the third to keep us from gaining that momentum again."

Five of the C-Hawks seven goals in game three were scored on the power play. 

"I think we were just exhausted," added Lansard. "Maybe that Morden series in the SEMHL final really stretched us thin and we just didn't have the same drive that we had. It was a tough way to finish."

The Aces are two-time Manitoba Cup champions having won in 2018 and 2019. 

Miniota/Elkhorn is the third Tiger Hills Hockey League team to capture the Manitoba Cup. 

The Deloraine Royals won in 2014 and the Killarney Shamrocks captured back-to-back championship banners in 2016 and 2017.