San Francisco Quakes
7-Strong SFQuakes Dominate 11 Dogs
With only seven skaters, we knew we had to take an early lead to have any hope of holding on to the game. Fortunately James was up to the task and put us on the board, with some help from Marcus. In fact, James had quite a night, scoring twice more last night for a hat trick! Marcus had a great night as well, getting a goal and two assists. And blue liner sub Jim scored his first goal of the season by going coast-to-coast, faking a slapshot, and then lofting the puck high into the far top corner of the net. John only allowed one goal-- it was after we had a failed clearing attempt and the Prairie Dogs shot from the point past traffic in the slot. Final score was 5-1. Our three defense of Hutch, Jim, and Kieran did a stellar job. It helped having Dan sitting on the bench with us the whole game, giving us encouragement and advice. Hopefully he'll be getting the cast off his foot on Tuesday immediately taking to the ice in Oakland that night!.

-Capt. Mike K.

Oakland Silver Quakes
SilverQuakes Loss 7-4 vs. Blitz
It was so close. After period 1 it looked like we were going to take home the bacon. Unfortunately, we missed a few scoring ops and made a few defensive errors, allowing the Blitz to win yet another game. However, it was still a fun game and we did play well, putting up a great fight for most of the game. The Quakes made it to the board first when Robert, Keihl and Hogan lined up for their first shift. Robert made a nice move and drove to the net to place it nicely. Soon after, Victor scored assisted by Keihl. The Quakes were now ahead 2-0 vs. the division's 2nd best team! And, only 3 minutes into the game! The Blitz managed to catch up with their second goal. Now it was 2-2. Was our momentum gone? Hell no, Keihl popped one in, assisted by Ian, to take back the lead. The lead lasted until the Blitz, with a minute remaining, tied it up again. Period 2 saw only one goal and it went to the Blitz. Again, # 19 took a long shot which looked like it had been stopped but managed to squeeze through John's pads and trickle over the line to everyone's surprise. Period 3 was a different story. Once again the magic of Keihl and Ian gave us a goal early in the period to tie it up at 4-4. What a game! That's when the wind shifted. We were getting all the bounces up 'til then, now it was the Blitz's turn. They managed 3 goals in the last half of the period, to end the game 7-4.

Overall we played well and the game could have been ours. It certainly was not lop-sided. It was actually a very evenly played game.Mr. Keihl was busy with 2 goals and 2 assists, with a point earned for every one of our goals. Good job Mike. Newcomer Ian is proving his worth as he assisted both of Keihl's goals.Robert has a special relationship with the Blitz as he has scored the first goal of each game we've played against them. We had 4 penalties, but managed to kill every minute we were short. We did lose a goal when it was a 4 on 4, but I won't count that as a PK.

-Capt. Dan H.

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