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Kamloops – The Kamloops Blazers have been bombed in two of their last three games — and they still have two-thirds of their longest road trip of the WHL season remaining.

The Blazers lost 8-3 to the Wheat Kings in Brandon on Saturday, but are 1-1 on their six-game East Division swing through Saskatchewan and Manitoba after a 5-4 overtime victory over the Regina Pats on Friday.

Kamloops (8-3-2-0) is scheduled to play the Warriors in Moose Jaw on Tuesday, before meeting up with the Swift Current Broncos on Wednesday. Kamloops plays the Prince Albert Raiders on Friday before finishing the trip against the Blades in Saskatoon on Saturday.

But Kamloops hasn’t been great lately. In their last three games — including the victory in Regina and a 12-5 home loss to the Medicine Hat Tigers on Oct. 12 — the Blazers have allowed 24 goals on 130 shots.

On Saturday, the Blazers were outshot 43-15 — 31-10 after two periods — but managed to keep it close until the Wheat Kings scored three third-period goals.

Brandon’s Brayden Schenn scored the lone goal of the first period on a power-play, before Kamloops’ Bronson Maschmeyer scored a power-play goal of his own 4:04 into the second period. Wheaton King and Schenn scored four minutes apart to make it 3-1 for Brandon, before Shayne Wiebe scored his eighth on a power play just past the midway point of the second.

Brandon scored twice more — off the sticks of Scott Glennie and Matt Calvert — before Brendan Ranford scored unassisted with 1:39 remaining in the period to bring the visitors within two.

Calvert, Aaron Lewadniuk and Toni Rajala scored for Brandon in the third period to put to bed any thought of a Blazers comeback.

Justin Leclerc made 35 saves in the loss. Andrew Hayes stopped 12 shots in the victory.

Kamloops remains tied for first with the Vancouver Giants in the WHL, despite two losses in three games.

Tuesday’s game will be against a resurgent Warriors squad (8-4-0-0) that is tied for first in the East Division. Moose Jaw finished 19-50-1-2 in 2008-09, dead last in the WHL.

Kamloops hasn’t had a lot of success in Moose Jaw in recent years. The Blazers’ last victory at the Crushed Can was on Jan. 15, 2000, when they beat the Warriors, 5-2. Since that victory, Kamloops has gone 0-4-1 in the Friendly City, including a 1-1 tie on Jan. 6, 2004, which was the trip on which the Blazers tied five consecutive games.

Of course, the Blazers have already improved on their record the last time they made a six-game trip to the East Division.

The last time Kamloops ventured east, late in the 2007-08 season, it went 0-6, which was part of a 10-game winless streak. Including the road trip, the Blazers ended the regular season with 14 losses in their last 15 games, then were swept out of the first round of the postseason by the Tri-City Americans.

During the 2007-08 trip, Kamloops was outscored 26-14 and outshot 234-155.