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Junior Eagles drop road war

Loose fists and “not enough
bodies” were cited as reasons for
the Junior B Eagles’ bumpy ride in
league hockey action last week.

One of the team’s two coaches,
Rob Montgomery, said a 10-4 loss
to Parksville Sunday night was
mainly due to manpower prob-
lems.

With less than a dozen players
making the trip to Parksville, the
Eagles “just ran out of steam,” he
said.

“Our problem was we got tired.
We didn’t have enough bodies and
we also did ourselves in with
penalties,” he added.

Though only down by 5-2 going
into the third period, the Eagles
hopes of getting back into the
game were dealt a crushing blow
by a five-minute Parksville pow-
erplay.

A high-sticking penalty call
against one of the Eagles players

left the already tired and over-—

worked team short-handed, Mont-
gomery said.

‘Midget Eagles hold strong

The Peninsula Midget Rep
Eagles hockey team experienced
mixed fortunes in action against
Powell River on the weekend.

A 6-3 loss on Saturday was
avenged by a 5-2 victory Sunday
a’ternoon, assistant coach Paul
Johnson said.

Sunday’s win was well-deserved
as the Eagles played “a hard
fast-skating’’ game to turn the
tables on the visiting team.

“We played an all-round solid
defensive game, with plenty of
good backchecking,” he said.

After taking a 1-0 lead in the
first period, the Eagles took charge
of the game and widened their
lead to 4-1 by the end of the
second period.

And some excellent goaltending
by Dave Oswald helped the Eagles
to preserve their three-goal advan-
tage right up until the end of play,
Johnson said.

Outstanding play from Brad
Cairns and Jim Anderson also
helped the Eagles to tum in an
inspired performance, he said.

In Saturday’s loss, the Eagles
looked vulnerable on defence after
a week-long layoff and the team
played below-par throughout the
game, he said.

Some terrific saves by the Pow-
ell River goaltender also frustrated
the Eagles’ offence for much of
the game.

The team’s record now stands at
11 wins, one tie and four losses.

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And Parksville didn’t squander
a golden opportunity as the home
team racked up three more goals
during the five-minute stretch.

In earlier action, the Eagles
played to a hard-earned 6-6 tie
against the Saanich Braves, Dec. 4.

Montgomery’s coaching partner
Mike Mowat said the Eagles once
again fielded an under-strength
squad, which was due to school
commitments by some players.

Making a very slow Start, the
Eagles quickly found themselves
down 3-0 early in the first period.

But the home-team players
regrouped and clawed their way
back to tie the game 3-3 by the end
of the second penod.

Swinging into high gear at last
in the third period, the Eagles held
on to a 6-5 lead until four minutes
from the end of the game.

But a five-minute high-sticking
penalty cost the Peninsula team
dearly as Saanich tied the game
with a powerplay goal seconds
before the final buzzer, Mowat
said.

He

league record

Chris Wallace was the Eagles’
Standout, scoring two goals and
two assists.

The team’s recent checkered
form is due to a weak defence and
not enough consistency in attack,
he said.

“We're giving up too many

goals and offensively the chemis-
try isn’t there,” Mowat said.
__ These days we’re always miss-
ing a guy off each line which
makes it difficult for things to
click into place.”

Adding to the team’s woes was a
bitter lose suffered by the Penin-
sula team in Sooke, Dec. 3.

After only about seven minutes
of play the game was called off
after a brawl between about a
dozen players from Westcomm
Broncos and the Eagles, Mowat
said.

Later in the week, the game was —

awarded to the Broncos despite the
fact the Sooke team had six players
ejected from the game, as com-
pared to the Eagles’ five ejections.

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