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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Buccaneers win, lose blowouts
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JR. B TEAM wins 7-4 and loses 7-1.
The Nanaimo Buccaneers rang in the new year the right way, but the celebration didn’t last. The Bucs played a pair of blowout games in their return to Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League action, defeating the Kerry Park Islanders 7-4 on Thursday at the Nanaimo Ice Centre and then losing 7-1 to the Campbell River Storm the next night up Island. In Thursday’s game, Dan Foglietta scored two goals for Nanaimo and Lee Orpen, Jordan Levesque, Lucas Franssen, David Osborne and Garrett Dunlop also found the back of the net. Mikko Keski-Pukkila, Thor Rosback and Jake Calverley each contributed a pair of assists and Ryan Waldhaus made 20 saves in the win.
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Nanaimo Buccaneers defenceman Kyle MacDonald, middle, ties up Kerry Park Islanders opponent Tylor Branzsen as the Isles’ Alex Milligan also digs for the puck during Thursday’s game at the Nanaimo Ice Centre.
Shots were 40-24 in favour of Nanaimo. On Friday, the Storm built up a 5-0 lead through two periods before Jake
Calverley got the visitors on the board. Waldhaus again tended goal, making 29 saves as his team was outshot 36-30.
All-star soccer players take pitch Ten Nanaimo soccer players made an all-star impression during the first half of the season. The Vancouver Island Soccer League will hold its all-star games on Saturday (Jan. 11) at Victoria’s Hampton Park, and several local players will participate. Matt Mehrassa will represent Nanaimo United’s Div. 1 men as his VISL team will take on an allstar squad from the Fraser Valley Soccer League. Also representing Nanaimo will be Callum Magog from the Div.
2 men and Brad Peterson, Mike Pettigrew, Rich Turner and Todd Vass from the masters program. Mid-Isle Highlanders players Keegan Lang, Blaze Roberts and Jeff Travis were named to the U21 all-star team and Amma Alwadani of the Nanaimo Stallions is part of the Div. 4 all-star squad. Next league play for the Nanaimo United Div. 1 men (7-50) isn’t until Jan. 24, when they host the division-leading Saanich Fusion (8-1-2) at 7 p.m. at Merle Logan Field.
GAME ON … The Buccaneers face two division leaders this coming weekend. The Bucs (21-12-2-1) and Storm (22-9-2-2) play
Thursday (Jan. 9) at 7:15 p.m. at the NIC, then Nanaimo travels Sunday to play the Victoria Cougars (267-1-1) in a matinee.
Nanaimo wrestlers reach top Nanaimo wrestlers reached the summit and came back with medals. Faye Tuck won gold and Kim van Hest won gold and silver, respectively, at the Simon Fraser Clansmen Elite High School Wrestling Tournament at Burnaby Mountain in December. Tuck dominated her weight class, winning every match by pin or technical superiority. Van Hest lost her final in a close bout.
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Bestwick back behind bench coaching Gens, advising Clips Bill Bestwick wasn’t out of the game for long in junior hockey. Less than a month after being fired by the Victoria Grizzlies, Bestwick joined two new teams at the same time. On Thursday, the junior A Nanaimo Clippers announced their former head coach and general manager would return to the club as a senior adviser. That same day, he was named as the new head coach of the junior B Oceanside Generals. His first game behind the Gens bench was a 5-4 win over the Kerry Park Islanders. By rejoining the Clippers organization, Bestwick returns to the club that fired him three years ago, but he said in a press release he is excited to be back and willing to help however he can. “This is a great
opportunity for me to work with the Clipper organization and bring my passion, enthusiasm and knowledge to the operations,” he said. The Clippers said Bestwick will be able to assist the club right away leading up to the Jan. 10 trade deadline and the ensuing stretch run of the B.C. Hockey League season. “Bill has a strong history with the Clipper franchise and we are excited that Bill has agreed to join us and support our teams goals and objectives moving forward,” said Ken Wagner, team president. The Generals announced that Bill’s son Brett Bestwick will be an assistant coach. Dan Lemmon, who is from Nanaimo, had been head coach of the lastplaced Gens since mid-October.
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