|
< |
September, 2010 |
> |
| S |
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
 |
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 | |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 | |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 | |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 | |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
| Sun Valley Suns Articles: |
| 12/16/2009 |
Paper:
Idaho Mountain Express
Author: Jeff Cordes |
Suns score in bunches, settle for hockey split |
Pritchett’s hat trick sparks Saturday’s 8-5 win
By JEFF CORDES
Express Staff Writer
Scoring in bunches didn't work quite right for the Sun Valley Suns senior men's ice hockey team Friday night, but it came in pretty handy for the Suns in Saturday's 8-5 win over the Park City (Utah) Pioneers.
Avon Old Farms product Jordan Pritchett scored a three-goal hat trick sparking the Suns (1-1) to the 8-5 victory that assured a weekend split with the Pioneers (5-3), a first-year team of familiar Utah faces and some talented newcomers.
Five unanswered goals in an eight-minute span of the second period enabled coach John "Cubby" Burke's Suns to pad their 2-1 first-period lead into a 7-1 cushion. The Pioneers tallied four of the final five goals of the game, but it was too late.
Pritchett, a wing who grew up in the Sun Valley Youth Hockey program, energized a fast and aggressive forward line with center Jon Duval and wing Blake Jenson. They accounted for 10 of the 22 Suns points in Saturday's victory. Jenson had three assists.
On Friday night, the Suns also ripped off a series of goals—an explosion of four goals in three minutes for a 7-7 tie after trailing the Pioneers 7-3. But Utah captain Mike Adamek beat Suns goalie Ryan Thomson (50 saves) with a tough angle shot in the sudden death overtime for an 8-7 win.
Coach Burke said about Friday's Adamek game winner, "A helluva shot. We showed a lot of character coming back and had our chances to win it. Even when we were down 7-3, I felt we could get back in it if we just got that fourth goal, and we did that. It was all heart out there for us. I wore out some of our guys and they kept going."
Defenseman Eric Demment scored two goals Friday night including the first Suns goal of the 2009-10 season just 33 seconds into the game. In all, 10 different Suns players scored goals against the Pioneers during the season-opening series.
Chris Warrington's power play goal on a fine centering pass from center Jamie Ellison got the third-period Suns comeback in gear. John Stevens, Ivars Muzis and Demment added goals in the scoring spree that came up short at Sun Valley Skating Center.
The Suns nearly won the game and completed a miracle comeback just 54 seconds into the five-minute sudden death overtime period. But Park City goaltender Eric Moldenhauer (47 saves) used his shoulder to rob Duval's tipped shot of a Ryan Enrico centering pass.
It turned into a great game between two evenly matched opponents, Burke said. Leading the weekend scoring parade of 28 goals were Utah's Adam Kostichka (5 goals, 3 assists) and Adamek (2 goals, 4 assists).
The Suns resume action inm their 35th winter season against the Utah All-Stars Friday and Saturday, Dec. 18-19 at 7 p.m.
Suns Summary
PIONEERS 8, SUNS 7 (ot)
Friday, DECEMBER 11
Park City Pioneers 4 1 2 1 8
Sun Valley Suns 2 1 4 0 7
FIRST PERIOD—(1) SV, Eric Demment 1 (Blake Jenson, Ivars Muzis), 0:33. (2) Park City, Kevin Labatte 2 (Adam Kostichka), 2:33. (3) SV, Cody Proctor 1 (Josh Jacobson, Charles Friedman), 3:58. (4) Park City, Labatte 3 (Jeff Jacobs), 6:52. (5) Park City, Kostichka 7 (Mike Adamek, Tom Gata), 16:16, power play goal. (6) Park City, Labatte 4 (Kostichka, Adamek), 19:36, hat trick goal.
SECOND PERIOD—(7) SV, Vilnis Nikolaisons 1 (Friedman), 7:15. (8) Park City, Adamek 3 (Kostichka, Gata), 12:05.
THIRD PERIOD—(9) Park City, Adam Kostichka 8 (Aaron Dufford, Adamek), 2:02, power play goal. (10) Park City, Kostichka 9 (Scott McKay), 3:36, hat trick goal. (11) SV, Chris Warrington 1 (Jamie Ellison, Ryan Enrico), 4:40, power play goal. (12) SV, John Stevens 1 (unassisted), 5:34. (13) SV, Muzis 1 (Jon Duval), 6:14. (14) SV, Demment 2 (Duval), 7:35.
SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME (5 minutes)—(15) Park City, Adamek 4 (Josh Angevine), 2:45, game-winning goal.
SHOTS ON GOAL—Park City, 17-19-18-4 for 58; Sun Valley 14-19-18-3 for 54.
GOALIES—Park City, Eric Moldenhauer (47 saves); Sun Valley, Ryan Thomson (50 saves, 0-1-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Chris Benson and Bobby Noyes.
NOTES—Seventh-year goalie Ryan Thomson, (45-19-0, 9-7-0 OT) has played in goal in 16 of the last 18 Suns overtime games. The Suns are now 33-28-20 in 81 overtime games over 35 seasons, and Sun Valley is 7-10 in 17 shootouts since 1998. Last winter, the Suns (9-11-0) played four OT games, winning two in shootouts, losing one in a shootout and losing one in the OT session......Seventh-year wing Ryan Enrico collected his 100th Suns assist on Chris Warrington's power play goal that started the 4-goal Suns rally in the third period....Seventh-year defenseman Eric Demment had his 40th Suns goal tonight..... Suns forward lines were Ryan Enrico-Jamie Ellison-Vilnis Nikolaisons, Eric Demment-Jon Duval-Blake Jenson, Cody Proctor-Charles Friedman-John Stevens. The defensemen were Ivars Muzis, Chris Warrington, Eric Demment, Josh Jacobson and Zak Greenawalt. Other skaters were Trevor Thomas, Bobby Sloper, Noah Loyd and Taylor Rothgeb. Back-up goalie was Mat Gershater.......
SUNS 8, PIONEERS 5
SATURday, december 12
Park City Pioneers 1 2 2 5
Sun Valley Suns 2 5 1 8
FIRST PERIOD—(1) SV. Ivars Muzis 2 (Vilnis Nikolaisons, Ryan Enrico), 4:43. (2) SV, Jodan Pritchett 1 (Eric Demment, Blake Jenson), 12:08, power play goal. (3) Park City, Clint Lucas 1 (Kevin Labatte, Jeff Jacobs), 16:35.
SECOND PERIOD—(4) SV, Jenson 1 (Trevor Thomas, Pritchett), 2:11. (5) SV, Enrico 1 (Nikolaisons, Demment), 4:04. (6) SV, Bobby Sloper 1 (Cody Proctor), 9:07. (7) SV, Pritchett 2 (Jenson, Noah Loyd), 10:20. (8) SV, Pritchett 3 (Jon Duval, Jenson), 12:51, hat trick goal. (9) Park City, Aaron Dufford 2 (Mike Adamek), 17:39, power play goal. (10) Park City, Adam Kostichka 10 (Dufford), 17:59.
THIRD PERIOD—(11) SV, Proctor 2 (Pritchett), 14:30. (12) Park City, Lucas 2 (Dufford, Tom Gata), 18:04. (13) Park City, Kostichka 11 (Lucas), 19:10.
SHOTS ON GOAL—Park City 11-16-17 for 44; Sun Valley 24-23-14 for 61.
GOALIES—Park City, Jeff Slack (30 minutes, 6 goals, 38 shots and 32 saves) and Eric Moldenhauer (30 minutes, 2 goals, 23 shots and 21 saves); Sun Valley, Ryan Thomson (39 saves, 1-1-0 record).
OFFICIALS—John Olson and Eric Wingard.
NOTES—The most productive Suns forward line tonight featured wings Jordan Pritchett (3 goals, 2 assists) and Blake Jenson (1 goal, 3 assists) with center Jon Duval (1 assist). They accounted for 10 of the 22 Suns points tonight.......Pritchett (5 points) and Jenson (5 points) led the Suns point-getters who had 38 weekend points, to 32 for Park City. Leading the first-year Pioneers team were Adam Kostichka (8 points) and captain Mike Adamek (6 points)...... Sun Valley Junior Hockey product Jordan Pritchett celebrated a championship with his Avon Old Farms School hockey team March 2, 2008. Avon Old Farms (27-1, outscoring opponents 163-58) won its final 19 games including the New England Prep Division 1 tournament championship game by a 3-2 score in overtime over St. Paul's School of Concord, N.H. Pritchett was a senior forward for Avon Old Farms, indeed, the only player on the roster hailing from west of Pittsburgh, Pa.. A boys' boarding school located in Avon, Ct., Avon Old Farms was dominant during the 2007-08 season but ended with three close games including its 5-4 overtime quarterfinal victory over Berkshire School Feb. 27 and 6-4 semi-fin win over Belmont Hill School March 1. The school produced such athletes as Brian Leetch of the New York Rangers and local Sun Valley Youth Hockey player Ryan McDonald. |
Previous Page |
|
|
 |
|
|
