KITCHENER, Ont. - The game didn't mean much, but the players didn't seem to know that.
The Belleville Bulls edged the Kitchener Rangers 4-3 in overtime on Wednesday in what was a preview of the semifinal at the 2008 MasterCard Memorial Cup.
The winner of Friday's rematch (7 p.m. ET) meets the Spokane Chiefs in Sunday's final.
Keaton Turkiewicz ended it at 8:55 of extra time with his second goal of the tournament.
It was the eighth meeting of the post-season between Kitchener and Belleville with the series now split 4-4.
Game 9 will end one team's season and catapult the other to the championship game against Spokane, which earned the bye to the final with a 3-0 record in the preliminary round.
Kitchener needed seven games to beat Belleville in the Ontario Hockey League championship series.
Both clubs knew prior to Wednesday's game they would meet again it the semifinal, so neither team wanted to give