Gerry's blog

Provincials are here...All of our teams have until February 19th to get their first round of Provincials completed. In Provincial 'A' all of our teams play QVHL teams. The Cupar Canucks will open up their best of three series against the Grenfell Spitfires in Cupar on Saturday, February 10th. Game two will be the following Sunday in Grenfell and if a game three is required it will be on Sunday the 18th of February in Grenfell. The Southey Marlins open up their series with the Balgonie Bisons on Saturday, February 10th in Southey. Game two will be Friday, February 16th in Balgonie at 8:30 p.m. and if a game three is required it will be Sunday, February 18th at 4:00 p.m. in Southey. The Lumsden Monarchs will be playing the Milestone Flyers with game one in Lumsden on Sunday, February 11th at 7:30 p.m. Game two is in Milestone on Saturday, February 17th at 8:00 p.m. and game three if necessary is on Sunday, February 18th at 8:00 p.m. in Lumsden. The Raymore Rockets begin defence of their Provincial 'C' title against the Wawota Flyers of the Big Six League. This two game total point series opens in Wawota on Sunday, February 11th at 7:30 p.m. Game two of this series is in Raymore on Saturday, February 17th at 8:00 p.m. The Strasbourg Maroons open their Provincial 'D' series against the Central Butte Flyers of the Sask Valley Hockey League and the third "Flyers" team that our teams play in the first round. Game one is Friday, February 16th in Central Butte at 8:30 p.m. Game two of this series will be the following evening in Strasbourg at 8:00 p.m. The defending Provincial 'A' champion Bethune Bulldogs will be playing 'AAA" this year and participating in the Allan Cup in Rosetown April 9th - 14th. They will be playing the Provincial Championship against the Rosetown Red Wings of the Chinook Hockey League. Game one will be on Saturday, February 24th in Rosetown. Game two is Saturday, March 10th in Bethune. Game three will be on Sunday, March 18th in Rosetown at 4:00 p.m. If a game four is required it will be played on Friday March 23rd in Bethune. Game five if required will be in Rosetown on Saturday, March 24th. We will have all of the Provincial play up on our Provincial page.

Bulldogs Back in first place....The Bethune Bulldogs defeated the Raymore Rockets 8-2 last Tuesday evening in Raymore and then defeated the Southey Marlins 8-2 on Friday evening to take their record to 10-1-1 for 21 points. Against Raymore, Coltyn Sanderson led the way with a hat trick. Carter Smith, Joel Kot, Derek Fuchs and Drew George also scored for the Bulldogs. Josh Jordan and Cody Mapes scored for Raymore. Ryan Holfeld picked up the win in net for the Bulldogs and Riley Focht-Gabriel was in net for the Rockets. Bethune had 4 minor penalties and Raymore had two. On Friday evening, The Bulldogs defeated the Southey Marlins 8-2 in Southey. Mike Reich scored twice including his league leading third game winning goal and had two assists to lead the Bulldogs. Coltyn Sanderson, Mitch Boucher, Matt Delahey (ppg), Drew George, Tyler Riche and Russ Nielson also scored for the Bulldogs. Evan Mohr scored both of the Marlin goals. Ryan Seibel picked up the win in net for the Bulldogs.

Bulldogs rebound....The Bethune Bulldogs defeated the Strasbourg Maroons 5-0 on Saturday evening. The Bulldogs lost to the Maroons in Strasbourg just before the Christmas break. Mike Reich scored on a power play in the first period to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead. In the second period Drew George and Coltyn Sanderson scored to make it 3-0. In the third period Sanderson would score again and Chris Merkel would score to make the final 5-0. Ryan Holfeld picked up the shut out in net for the Bulldogs stopping 29 shots. Rhett Freistadt was in the Strasbourg net and stopped 46 shots. The Maroons had three minor penalties and the Bulldogs had one. Huge win by Maroons...the Maroons were coming off a huge win in Lumsden Friday evening defeating the Monarchs 10-2. The Maroons led the game the entire way scoring three times in the first period, twice in the second period and five times in the third period. Mike Arnold led the way for the Maroons with four goals. Tanner Exner had one goal and four assists. Other goals came from Marselis Subban, Dylan Marcott, Garret Lockeridge, Sean Delwo and Tucker Slough. Lumsden scored twice in the first period on goals by Liam Brennan. Rhett Freistadt picked up his third win of the year in the Strasbourg net stopping 37 shots. Kurtis Sollosy and Will Hood both spent time in the Lumsden net and stopped 42 shots. Lumsden had five minor penalties and Strasbourg had four. Monarchs bounce back....On Saturday evening the Lumsden Monarchs came back from Friday's loss at home with a 7-5 victory over the Southey Marlins in Southey. Goals by Torey Lindsey, Brady Aulie and Kyle Johnson gave the Monarchs a 3-0 lead. Riley Mohr would score late in the first period to make it 3-1 going into the second period. Early in the second period the Monarchs would get a shorthanded goal from John Sonntag who was playing his first game with Lumsden. The Marlins would respond quickly with a power play goal from Chad Mazurak on the same penalty they gave up the shorthanded goal on. Just fifteen seconds later Ryley Storzuk would score and six minutes later a power play goal would tie the game at 4-4.