Vernon Vipers’ twins Connor and Kellen Jones are back on primetime.

Half a year after claiming Royal Bank Cup glory with the Snakes in Victoria, the Jones boys have a chance to add a World Junior A Challenge title to the collection as Canada West faces the U.S. in the gold-medal game today in Summerside, P.E.I.

The game is a rematch of last year’s final (the U.S. won 7-1), and will be broadcast on TSN2 at 1 p.m. (PST).

Canada West scored five unanswered goals in the second period, four of them coming from the line of Connor, Kellen and Cody Kunyk, as they pummelled Canada East 9-1 in semifinal action Friday night.

Kunyk finished with a hat trick and added an assist, Connor tied a WJAC record with five points (2+3) and Kellen pitched in with a goal and an assist.

This isn’t the first time Canada West head coach Rylan Ferster (also GM of the Salmon Arm SilverBacks) has watched the Jones brothers take over the game.

“I see it on a nightly basis,” chuckled Ferster, during a phone interview with The Morning Star Saturday morning. “They work so hard and they work so well together.

“Cody fits in well with those guys. He plays like a pro – everything is hard and on the tape.”

The U.S. qualified for the final earlier Friday with a 6-3 win over Russia.

West captain Mathew Bodie opened the scoring on the two-man advantage. Jeff Vanderlugt equalized for the East late in the period, snapping a shot past Sean Bonar, but West would take the lead for good just 46 seconds later on Kunyk’s first.

Goals by Cam Reid, Kunyk and Connor early in the second put Canada West in firm control.

The western onslaught continued late in the middle frame as Kunyk netted his hat trick marker.

Connor added his second on another two-man advantage with three seconds to go in the period.

“We have a real compete mentality, and we want to sacrifice for one another,” said Ferster. “In a short period of time we have really come together – the staff and the players.

“For a lot of these guys this will be their only chance to play for their country, to put on the maple leaf. They have really embraced that.”