OMG, Did You See David's Butt?

minor I-league

Snipers (2-1-1) 0
Grave Diggers (1-4-0) 0

Pointstreak is again, very difficult to follow. I am assuming that this game was a casualty of the aforementioned schedule change. According to what I see here one team was out of the loop, along with me, as only the Snipers showed-up. Both teams played later in the night, the Diggers more specifically early Sunday morning, I'm not sure though if the Snipers got any credit for their punctuality.

LSI (2-2-0) 2
Smashed Pumpkins (1-0-0) 6

Karen Powell makes her first I-league goal in months, since she finally found a baby sitter, putting her LSI team in front. Peter Case scores late in the first for the two-nothing lead, but turncoat ringer Gabe Rivera leads the Pumpkin counter assault cutting the lead in half before the period ends. James Macha manages to find the back of the net and Cody Patten makes the third Pumpkin goal seizing the lead in this civil war. Rivera strikes again in the final minute of the second and opens the third with his hat trick. Patten ends the evening with another tally leaving Gallagher wondering how he lost his prospects to an upstart organization like the Pumpkins.

Stickmen (3-1-0) 5
Mutineers (2-2-0) 2

Jesse Henderson has been back from his knee injury for a while now, but tonight he shows the leadership that the Sticks have lacked in his absence, the first goal is his. It takes until the middle of the second period before the Mutes can surmount his lead and John Swartzbaugh takes the mantle. The Sticks however, regain the lead with a Lynne Young goal and add to it with the bold stroke from Ken Halford. The Mutes refuse to go quietly and deliver a goal from Erick Ahlstedt to close the period down by one. In the final frame, the Sticks stymie the Mutineers, even while on the kill, with smothering presence at the offensive blue line, out shooting the Mutes 32-21, and gaining two more goals: Jeff Thomas, Julian Castillo. The Sticks look ripe for the repeat.

Brewzers (3-3-0) 1
Snipers (2-1-1) 4

Vanessa Walkerton guards the net for the Brewzers in this display of sibling rivalry, but she surrenders Lee Miller's shot for the early Sniper lead claiming it as a birthday gift for the opposing center. Jeff Vaughn finds a lucky screen from the point to make a two goal lead, then he opens the second with a drive to the net cleaning-up the rebound of Raul Gilbreath's shot. Mika Hyytiainen puffs out his chest with a four to nothing Sniper lead after popping the rebound overtop of the sprawling Vanessa. In his first game back from knee injury, Jamil Jabri gains the sole Brewzer goal, I am not sure how to interpret this nugget- Brewzers still lose.

Grave Diggers (1-4-0) 2
LSI (2-2-0) 9

For their second game of the night, Gallagher kicks A. J. out of the net, installing himself instead. The Burns boys take their cue that no one's position on the team is safe and combine for four goals in the opening period. Phil Pratt does his best to fulfill the incentive-based contract and scores a second period goal for his fearless leader. Robert Burns scores his fourth of the game and sets-up Ken Lentz a few seconds later. Cody Woodward makes the eighth unanswered goal, and the mountain before the Diggers was immense, but Tim Rivers takes the first step in that climb, hoping to inspire the Digger bench to greatness. Peter Case is inspired to score another LSI goal. In the third, the Diggers struggle to keep their tempers under control, killing one penalty and winning the period with the only goal- a la Randy Chappel. The game goes easily to the Imports leaving them at .500 for the night, or I should say, weekend.

EU MAJOR I

Spiders (3-3-0) 4
Patriots (1-4-1) 3

The Pats are just snake bit- or in the case of this contest Spider bit. They can't seem to find a winning rhythm despite goalie changes, defensive line instability, and league swapping. Steve "Coast-to-coast" Benefield, creates his own opportunity and a Patriot lead. Bryan Couture cancels it in short order. Jeff Eagle reclaims the Pat lead, but Evan Callahan erases it this time. The Pats escape the first with the lead when Greg Durante makes someone happy. The fragile lead holds through the third period when Andrew Patti sends it to overtime, and the ensuing shoot-out. Ice rookie netminder Jacob Fulghan stands tall for his Pats dispatching the first three shooters, but so does his counterpart, veteran Jeremy Brown. The fourth shooter was too much for Jacob- Heather Gray gains the victory for her Spiders.

Blue Devils I (2-4-0) 0
Shockers (6-0-0) 1

The main event: in this corner in the black trunks the undefeated Shockers and in the opposing corner, wearing very low-slung trunks, the aging champs, the Blue Devils. The two teams pace about the ice for two periods, sizing eachother up, looking for weaknesses. And, in the third the Shockers find it, Danny Arnold scores the only goal in the first minute. The game would get very tense in the closing minutes. Shocker Nick McMacken had already been in trouble in front of the net with a goalie interference call in the first period, but after Gloria Buell of the Devils turned things up a notch, he turns loose his anger with abandon while crashing the net. The incident at 11:41 of the third amasses twenty-two minutes of penalties among four men. And, it was captured on video, subjecting us all to the horrors of David Blubaugh's butt cleavage. The game does play-out and the Shockers maintain their undefeated status. Saturday night fever?

Soul Patch (3-1-0) 6
Puckers (3-3-0) 4

Last session's runners-up are looking better than ever, dismantling the agile Patrick Donaghue and the Pucker defense, right from the beginning- Soul Patch scores first with a Ron Demers goal. Ginger Parker, haven't heard much from her in a while, ties the game, David James takes the Pucker power play lead. The Patches wrestle back to the top in the first period with goals from Brad Aho and James McClelland. The Puckers control the middle frame with Guy Riggs, unassisted and Chris Kirton starting a point streak. But the Puckers lacked the wind to survive the third as the Patches lay it on with John Shannon's back-to-back goals, they take the lead and build on it with a Brian Lochkos tally- a three goal period with none against.


Whalers (0-5-0) 2
Smashed Pumpkins (3-0-0) 6

This game just finishing now, the Whalers looked to be in control, Richard Walter scores the first Whaler goal shorthanded and the puck possession Whalers take the two goal lead in the first minute of the second with a shot from Paul Thurston. But the momentum shift was looming and dramatic- James Macha ends the middle frame with the Pumpkin's first goal and Tom Burns evens it up in the third. Macha strikes again for the lead just seventeen seconds after the Burns goal and Robert Burns follows that on the power play. Cody Patten collects the fifth Pumpkin goal and Kate Levesque brings-in the sixth before the buzzer sounds, while Matt Walker gently weeps.