Decent finish to tonight's Aces-Condors game, eh? You know, if you like small miracles and the home team winning in overtime.

I mean, you know, getting a crazy bounce off the glass with goaltender Frank Doyle pulled for an extra attacker and generating the tying goal, Judd Blackwater's marker for the hat trick, with just 63 seconds left in regulation.

Maybe that was meant to be. Blackwater already was scheduled to sign autographs for fans after the game at a table the Aces set up each night, so at least he had something to talk about as he signed.

And the Aces took advantage of a, um, brassy call by referee Keith Kaval in OT, when he busted Bakersfield's Eric Regan for tripping. Looked like a trip to me. Also looked like Regan was a very long way from the puck as he and T.J. Fast chased it into the Aces' zone, so it took, um, quite a pair to blow that whistle.

In any event, Brock McBride cashed in a Derick Martin rebound on the subsequent power play and the Aces won 5-4.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's their first three-game series sweep since the opening weekend of the season.

Life doesn't get any easier, of course. The Aces still need bodies badly as they get ready for a three-game road trip to Victoria. Captain Scott Burt may be a week away from returning from arthroscopic knee surgery. Defenseman Bryan Miller's shoulder isn't 100 percent yet. Defenseman Ryan Turek sat out the game tonight with a bum shoulder. And the Aces won't have fill-in forward Jimmy Dahl when they hit the road. Gotta check to see if there's any possibility that fill-in forward Merit Waldrop, who provided an assist tonight and has furnished four helpers in seven games, has any interest in traveling -- he's got a day job and a family with two young kids, so he has responsibilities. Coach Brent Thompson is still searching for players, he said.