Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times
Sports
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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On Deck
SRT midfielder Jesse Erhardsen moved the ball forward at the B.C. AA Boys Soccer Championship.
SRT limps to 12th Samuel Robertson Technical qualified for the B.C. High School AA Soccer Championships for the second time in a row. SRT finished third in the Fraser Valley Championships beating Sands 3-2 with two goals by Spencer Pallone and one by Curtis Ogilvie to secure a spot in the provincial championships. In the first game of the provincial tournament SRT beat the high-ranked Notre Dame 2-1. • More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”
Photos by Maria Rantanen/TIMES
Knights fall
The Meadow Ridge Knights were defeated by the Langley Stampeders 32-17 on Saturday. Travis McCrea (above) heard some constructive criticism for conduct during the final game from assistant coach Duane Goerzen. “This was, by far, the best season the Knights have had since playing in the Midget Vancouver Mainland Football League for the past three years,” said Mark Ogloff, president of the organization. “The competitive drive and team spirit amongst these young men was the driving force behind how well they performed this season.” •More online at www.mrtimes.com
Junior B hockey
Flames rally from loss to shut out Panthers Kolbie Orum signed a letter of intent with Oregon State University.
Future brightens What a past 20 months it has been for Kolbie Orum. And the future just keeps getting brighter for the Maple Ridge Ramblers senior basketball standout. Back in March of 2011, when The TIMES first profiled the feats of the 6-foot-3 forward, she was a 10th grader playing on her school’s senior varsity team and making a huge splash by leading the entire field in scoring over four games at the B.C. girls Triple A championship tournament. • More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”
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Ridge Meadows will try to build off its 3-0 shutout of the Port Moody Panthers. by Troy Landreville tlandreville@mrtimes.com
The Ridge Meadows Flames are hoping their 3-0 shutout of the Port Moody Panthers on Saturday will give them some forward momentum. The Flames needed something positive to happen after losing 5-1 to the Abbotsford Pilots the previous night in Abbotsford. The host Panthers turned out to be just ideal opponents for a team looking to rebound. Port Moody is the lowest scoring team in the Pacific Junior Hockey League with 53 markers, two fewer than the Flames. They also reside at the bot-
tom of the PJHL’s Harold Brittain Conference with a league worst 5-16-0-1 record. Even so, Flames’ head coach Jamie Fiset said his team didn’t take the Panthers lightly. “We executed a very simple game plan, and the Panthers are one of the [league’s] most improved teams over the last month, and they keep getting better and better,” Fiset said. “It was not an easy game. They [the Panthers] are a much better team than people give them credit for.” The local junior B squad improved to 7-9-2-2 with the win and is a respectable 2-2-1 in its past five contests. “We look at our last five games, and we’ve picked up points in three of them,” Fiset said. “We’ve had setbacks against Abbotsford and Richmond, but in neither of those games, I thought we played very well. We didn’t feel
we put our best effort forward. goaltender RJ Bruni, who was We’ve beaten both of those teams named the game’s first star, has already this year, so there’s no been particularly sharp recently. panic or anything like that. We Abbotsford Pilots 5, Flames 1 have a fair amount of confidence Friday at Abbotsford’s MSA in our lineup.” Arena, the conference-leading Flames 3, Port Moody Panthers 0 Pilots led 5-0 lead early in the The Flames’ Travis Oddy second period before cruising to a opened the scoring in the first four-goal victory. period, then Ridge Meadows The Flames’ Michael Nolan added an insurance marker from ruined Pilots’ goaltender Adam Alexander Smith Oakley’s shutout bid 2:56 into the third when he found the “We look at our last frame to grab a net with 40 seconds five games, and we’ve remaining the sectwo-goal lead. picked up points in With Port ond period. Moody goaltender The third period three of them.” Angus Redmond was scoreless. Jamie Fiset pulled for the Next up for the extra attacker, the Flames: the visiting Flames’ Matthew Bissett scored Aldergrove Kodiaks this Friday, into an empty net with 17 secNov. 30. Game time at Planet Ice onds to go in regulation to cap the is 7:30 p.m. night’s scoring. The Kodiaks are 10-10-0-1 and “I was happy with our attention currently hold down second place to detail,” said Fiset, noting that in the Harold Brittain.
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