Sooke Novice 2W — tough battle
The Novice 2W travelled to Kerry Park for an early morning match on Sunday, Oct. 21, the first game of the year! It was a tough battle, but our team was ready to play. The team played extremely well but came up short in the end against a solid Kerry Park 2B team. Our defense core was anchored by veterans Darcy Stanley and Samantha Kingcott, with great defensive play coming from Jackson Jenkins and Coen Brumosky. While snipers Mathieu Ouellette and Caleb Cool added the offence for Sooke, Daniel Wiley just missed one and rung a big shot off the post. Our grit and grind department was headed up by the energetic play of Austin Boscence and Tyson Robinson. Our team was kept in the game by the fantastic “stand on your head” goaltending of Alec Rose. Coach Neil did an excellent job of readying the players and juggling lines on our short beach. Great work team! Their next game is Sunday, Oct. 28 at 3:30 p.m. at SEAPARC area.
Wayne Robinson
Team manager
Atom C1 Major
It has been an up and down start for your Atom C1 Major Thunderbirds. With more losses than wins in the exhibition season the team coached by Allan Phipps finds them selves coming into stride.
Going one win and one loss this weekend the players aged nine and 10 put two of their best games together. Behind the solid net minding of Connor North who has held them in it with all the games to date the team exhibited sportsmanship and character against two of Juan de Fuca’s six C – clubs. Your boys lost 3-2 on the road Saturday even though a goal was not allowed for Sooke to bring about a tie. This game was the best of the year with a hard fought battle on the boards and in each end. The soft hands of Blake Reymerink scored both goals for Sooke as the defensive pairings of Justin Parker, Beau Hicks, William Couture and Angus Dobie kept the offense of the Juan de Fuca Grizzlies C2 honest, allowing your team to stay in it all the way to the third period when a Sooke goal was waived off despite the Grizzlies goalie scooping it out from deep in the net. Connor North stood tall in the net and made numerous big saves in the combined effort. Keefe Monterio was awarded the locker room Hustler of the Game Award as the boys were all smiles knowing that they had won despite the score on the board.
The next day, playing at home, the team took on the Juan de Fuca C4 team. The boys came out hard and never looked back despite multiple bad bounces down low and missed scoring chances. Beau Hicks took the puck from his defensive position and ran the gauntlet for a highlight reel goal. Jordan English, Jacob Barney, and Nicholas Anderson contributed goals on route to a 10 – 2 win. With out the efforts of Owen Phipps, Quinn Macdonald, Luke Arden and Kaiden Rheault, the two hat tricks by Austin Adrian and Blake Reymerink would never have happened.
It seems the boys are gelling as a team and they are looking forward to the next games and new opponents.
Krista North
Bantam Girls
The Sooke Bantam Girl’s season has officially opened. They had their first season game on Saturday against Cowichan. It was a disappointing start to their season with a 5-0 loss, but even more unfortunate was that they had actually beat Cowichan 5-0 in exhibition play. So while it was a disappointing start they will rally and fight hard to repeat their Championship of 2012. The final standings for exhibition play was two wins, one tie and one loss.
Barb McKinnon