For 14-year-old Jacob Carels, life could be described as uncomplicated. He has the family farm and school to worry about and plays hockey because he loves the game. However, he knows things could certainly get more complicated. It’ s his WHL Draft year and he’ ll soon be playing midget with scouts watching and the pressure to win ratcheted up just a notch. Still, it will be nice heading to the next level with a championship on his hockey resume. This season, Carels and the Pembina Valley Hawks claimed Hockey Manitoba’ s Rural Triple A Bantam Championship with a 3-2 win over the Eastman Selects. It was quite a thrilling championship weekend in Stonewall.“ It was a battle with five games in three days,” head coach Reid Sloan told Dantin Reimer of Pembina Valley Online.“ The boys really came together. We upset the number one seed Yellowhead( Chiefs). That was excellent and really gave the boys some hope.“ Going into the finals playing Eastman, we knew that we could be successful. We had a couple of tight games with them at the end of the year and tied them in our first game at the provincials. We knew it would be close and managed to get a break with a couple minutes left in the game when they hit a post with about six seconds left. We were able to hold them off and win the championship.” The Hawks opened the championship tournament with a 4-4 tie against Eastman. Pembina Valley then played twice on Saturday, beating the Interlake Lightning 10-0 and the strong Southwest Cougars 2-1.