Redskins take third straight win
Posted 2 months ago
By Donald McLeod, For The Times
Morden Redskins coach Troy Ehnes was pretty much bang on when he suggested the competition in the South Eastern Manitoba Hockey League would be very close this season.
The Morden Redskins are keeping up the pace so far as they moved to 3-0 with a 3-1 win over Warren Tuesday.
Heading into that visit to Warren to play the Mercs, the Redskins were 2-0 after a 7-2 win over the Oakville Seals.
It moved them into a tie with the Mercs, who fell to 3-2 for six points, while the Notre Dame Hawks were at 2-1-0-1 for second with five points.
Kelby Friesen had a pair of goals in the Redskins win over the Seals. The Redskins were ahead 1-0 and 4-0 by periods and then outscored the Seals 3-2 in the third.
Friesen had the only goal of the first then he added his second in the middle frame along with markers from Mike Hamilton and Colin Hildebrand. Scott Edwards added to the Redskins lead before Jorin Bousquet got the first Seals goal with Hildebrand then getting his second. Joe Spence scored the other Seals goal with Hamilton closing out the scoring with his second of the game.
Ben Lobb got his first start in goal for the Redskins and he also had an assist on Hildebrand's second goal. Marshall Cox was in the Seals net.
In the lone game November 20, the Xpress outscored the Flyers 6-4.
Goals by Adam Suderman and Andrew Froese gave the Xpress a 2-0 lead after the first. Dayne Gluting, Scott Dibley, Jeff Sonnenberg and Adam Farthing then got goals for the Flyers in the second with Keith Paetkau getting another for the Xpress to leave the Flyers ahead 4-3
Goldade, Paetkau and Kevin Schellenberg then scored for the Xpress in the third, while goaltender Jason Dyck held the Flyers off the board.
The Mercs edged the Hawks and the Seals got past the Maroons both by 3-2 scores in a pair of games November 21. Ryan Robidoux had the only goal of the first to give the Hawks a 1-0 lead that they managed to hold on to into the third. The Mercs came back with three goals in the third, sparked by Rhys Vankemenade's two goals, while Steve Clark had the other Hawks goal.
Jesse Arbuckle in the first and Justin Froese in the second gave the Maroons a 2-0 lead over the Seals. Then two goals by Bousquet evened the score with Ray Spence getting the winner in the third.
Kelby Friesen led the early season scoring race. T.J. Warkentin of the Hawks had a pair of goals and five assists for seven points with six players with six points each, including Mike Hamilton of the Redskins, Aaron Goldade of the Xpress, Keith Bially of the Maroons and Jesse Vanderveen of the Beavers.
Altona is at Stonewall tonight (Fri., Nov. 27). Notre Dame entertains Stonewall, Carman is at Altona and Morden is at Plum Coulee (in Winkler) Saturday (November 28). Morden visits Stonewall Tue., Dec. 1 with Warren at Notre Dame Wed., Dec. 2. Morden hosts Carman and Stonewall is at Oakville Thur., Dec. 3.
