Thursday, January 26, 2012

Ford Traded to AGs

Maroon defenseman and webmaster Dalton Ford was unexpectedly traded to the American Gladiators last night.  This site will remain active, but will no longer be updated.  I'm bummed.  Good luck to BSG as they pursue their quest for the championship.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Starsky & Hutch No Match for Battlestar

BSG defeated Team Starsky & Hutch (Yellow, but wearing green) 7-2 on Sunday night at the MSA. Maroon forward Taylor Hoelscher had 2 goals and 1 assist, forward Steve Schmitz had 3 assists and Battlestar captain Joe Blom had 2 goals, bringing his two-game total to a team-leading 5G.  Galactica goalie Tina Kirkaldy had another solid performance, turning away 23 of 25 SOGs for a stellar .920 save percentage.

S&H got on the board first with a quick shot from the left wing that beat Kirkaldy at 10:31.  Three minutes later, Joe Blom streaked down the left lane, skated around a defenseman, cut across the crease and beat S&H goalie Kelsey Haley 5-hole.  At 4:54, BSG forward Craig Sorochin punched a shot past Haley to put the Maroon up 2-1.  Sorochin was assisted by Steve Schmitz.

The second period was a defensive struggle, with each team getting quality scoring chances.  S&H scored the only goal of the period at 11:32 to knot the game at 2.

BSG came out, firing on all cylinders, in the third.  Taylor Hoelscher found twine at 13:15 when he wristed a shot from high in the slot that beat Haley long-side.  Hoelscher was assisted by defenseman Dalton FordBlom scored again two minutes later on a breakaway, punctuated with a  pretty snapshot that went top-shelf.  Blom was assisted by HoelscherBSG scoring continued at 7:47 when Jeremy Thompson executed a give-and-go with Adam Ghering that resulted in Ghering slipping the puck by Haley to put the Battlestars up 5-2.  Thirty seconds later, Hoelscher would score again off a pretty feed from SchmitzBSG scoring was capped off with a pretty snapshot by Ron Goldberg that beat Haley gloveside at 6:21, ending the game 7-2.  Goldberg was assisted by SchmitzGalactica outshot S&H 34-25 in the contest.

BSG take on the American Gladiators (Red) at 3:30PM on January 29th @ the MSA.










Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Maroon Win Season Opener

The Maroon team (tentatively named Battlestar Galactica*) defeated the Green team (Soul Train) 5-2 on Sunday night at the MSA.  The Maroon team outshot the Green Machine 46-27 and BSG goalie Tina Kirkaldy had a stellar performance, ending the night with a .926 save percentage.

The Maroons got on the board first when "Birthday Boy" Jeremy Thompson scored short-handed at 10:59 in the first period with a pretty jook and back-hand shot that beat Arthur "Sig" Sigmund, stand-in goalie for the Green team .  BSG defenseman Jim Waddell followed up 8 minutes later when he shot through traffic and found twine, unassisted, at 2:17.  With sixty-one ticks left in the first, Maroon captain Joe Blom punched a shot in from the side of the net to put his team up 3-0 after one period.  Blom was assisted by Thompson.

The Maroon scored again at the 4 minute mark in the second when young gun Taylor Hoelscher punched in a rebound fired from the point.  Blueliner Dalton Ford was credited with the assist.  The Green team scored just seconds later when a weird dribbler managed to sneak its way under netminder Kirkaldy's left pad.  The second period ended 4-1 in favor of the Maroons.

The Maroon team continued to apply pressure and rain shots down on the Green netminder Sigmund.  The Green team managed to score again at 12:12 when a wrister from the point deflected off Ford's leg and went long-side.  Not to be discouraged, BSG continued a barrage of shots and at 10:03, Blom scored again with a patient shot, high to the glove side that beat a sprawling Sigmund to end the scoring 5-2.  Blom was assisted by winger Steve Schmitz.

The Maroons take on Yellow (Starsky & Hutch) at 3:30PM on Sunday, January 22nd at the MSA.