Morning Star Staff
The 2002 Stingers brushed back the Dynamo Blues 4-3 in the A final at the Vancouver Spring Hockey Challenge Cup last weekend.
The team was coached by Sandy Moger of Vernon and former Vernon minor hockey product Jeff Finley, along with Brad Teale, Kevin Walters, and Brent Fairweather.
Led by Vernon minor hockey products Nicholas Teale, Scott Gilowski, Tysen Fairweather, Trevor Kennedy, KT Walters, Lucas Zubrod and Cameron Moger, the Stingers gonged the Northwest Giants 6-0 in their opener.
They then bounced the the BC Lightning 6-3, iced the ProQwest Knights 5-2, lost 8-0 to the B.C Bears and stopped the Vancouver Selects Blacks 5-3.
The 2005 Kelowna Heat took bronze in the Challenge Cup, grounding the B.C. Blackhawks 6-3 Sunday.
Coldstream’s Austin Seibel did his best Carey Price impersonation early to keep the Heat in the consolation final. Vernon’s Erik Pastro scored once for the Heat.
Pastro set up the tying goal with 90 seconds to play and then potted the winner two minutes into overtime as the Heat edged the Alberta Jr. Golden Bears 5-4 in their opener. Seibel kept things close.
The Heat erased a 4-1 deficit to clip the Blackhawks 5-4 and then bowed 6-1 to the eventual championAAA Island All Stars.
In the quarterfinals, the Heat stopped the 05 Pacific Elite Stars 5-2 with Pastro picking up 1+1.
The Heat lost 6-5 to the NAA Hawks of Edmonton in the semifinals with Pastro pulling the hat trick.
