B10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 20, 2002 Team Red nipping at White's heels TEAM RED has been creeping up on Team White in the Mid- get House League of late, and with only t w oOo weeks of ° action to go in the regular season, the boys in Red have a serious shot at finishing on top. - Entering Week 18, Red has been undefeated in their last four games, and trailing White by only 4 points for the lead in league standings. Team Red Icoked to get. closer with their pair of games in this third-to-last week of regular season action. The Feb. 11th Monday night match up featured Team Blue taking on Team Red. Blue’s been struggling lately and could have used a win here against Team Red to get back © on track. But, it was Team Red that opened the scoring. At 10:43 of the first, Jack Haworth scored his 17th of the season to put his-team up 1-0. The game stayed that way almost through the first, but with only four seconds to go, Devon Mercer tied it up for Team Blue. ~ In the second, the game remained close. Red went in front again with another goal from Jack Haworth, this time at 13:11 of the middle frame. The score remained 2-1 after two periods and in the third Red kept VAT THE ARENA ~ TYLER NOBLE things going, At 15:57, Tyler Latimer scored his seventh of the year but he wasn’t done there. On the same shift, Lati- mer scored again and gave his team a comfortable 4-1 lead. Team Blue’s Toby Mitchell proved that no lead was too great.” Mitchell pulled off a rare thing ~ a_ natural hat trick, Mitchell got the’ first one at 7:19, the next at 6:02 and the third one at 4:34, Team Red managed to doze off for a bit there, and:just like that the game was tied 4-4 late ‘in the third, The intensity of this game picked tight up at this point. But then, with... 3:35 left onthe clock,.Team Red's Jon Hidber was inthe right place’ at the right time. He scored what proved to be the winning goal in this close match up. Red held on to edge Blue by a score of 5-4, With. the ‘win, Team Red picked up a valuable ‘two ‘points to mayve themselves within a win of tying Team White for the league lead. In the Tuesday night maich up, it was Team White’s turn to take on the Red-hot Red team. - Team Red simply dominated this - contest, winning by .a.score.of 4-1,. Jon Hidber and Jon Sarsiat picked up two goals apiece in Red’s winning cause, while Tyler Noble got the lone marker for Team White. The Thursday night match up saw Team White return to the ice to square off against Team Blue. , This was a must-win game for Team White, if they were to stay ahead of Red in the standings, Meanwhile, Team Blue locked to get a win somewhere, after dropping their last five games. Team White opened the scoring THE ALL NEW 2003 COROLLA S. 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At the 5:27 mark, Devon Mercer tied it up for Blue, and after the sec- ond, the game remained deadlocked at 3. Greal saves were made at both ends through most of the third, but with 2:04 left, the game’ was pretty much decided. Ken Eyjolfson scored his second of the game to put White in front 4-3, Then with 1:18 to go, Chris Eng- land was on the doorstep te ‘scoop up a rebound and provided White with much needed insurance. This was another close one that got away from Blue, as they fell to White 5-3. White and Red are showing that the’ 2001-02 season could come down to the wire. All teams have four games re- maining before the two-week playoff - schedule gets underway March 4, Games take place at the Terrace Arena on Monday nights at 9:12 p-m., Tuesdays at 7:45 p.m. and Thursdays at 9:15 p.m. Player of the Week: Team Red forward Jon Hidber who picked up 3 goals inthe Week 18 games. 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