President's Update - February 25th, 2019

Congratulations to the Southey Marlins on advancing to the HHL semi-finals. The Marlins won their first series, their first playoff games since rejoining the league. On Thursday evening in Southey they defeated the Cupar Canucks 9-2 to win their series 2-1. Carter Budzak with four goals and one assist and Rylan Freed with two goals and four assists led the way for the Marlins. Ryley Storzuk with two goals and Travis Mohr with one goal rounded out the Southey scoring. Cody Hall and Brayden Frank scored for the Canucks. David Perkin picked up the win in the Southey net and Colby Miller and Drew Geber both spent time in the Cupar net. Southey had four minor penalties called against them and Cupar had one. The Marlins now go on to face the Lumsden Monarchs in a best of five series with game one this Friday in Lumsden. Game two will be in Southey on Saturday evening. The Marlins are the only team in the league to have defeated the Monarchs this year with a 6-5 shoot out win in Southey on January 18th. The Monarchs won three times against the Marlins 6-2 in Lumsden, 14-4 in Southey and 5-0 in Lumsden. 

The Bethune Bulldogs will face the Raymore Rockets at home this Thursday at 8:15 in game one of their best of five HHL semi-final. The Bulldogs defeated the Rockets three times during the regular season. Game two of this series will be on Tuesday, March 5th in Raymore.

The Bethune Bulldogs lost a lose one in Balgonie in game one of their Provincial 'A' series 3-2 on Saturday evening. Game two of this series is on Saturday evening in Bethune. If a third game is required, it will be played on Sunday in Balgonie.

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