Oakland Silver Quakes
Oakland Quakes Lose 2-5 vs. the Gooch
Another super-fun game as we had just 8 skaters to share valuable ice-time. We all got a great workout and managed 2 sure goals and several close attempts. Although the Gooch had a team of 15 skaters, we gave them a run for their money. Both of our goals came in period 1 while we still had legs. By period 3 many of us had lost a bit of our jump and the Gooch took advantage. Jerry had a great game, stopping all of their break-aways. Mike Thompson and Joe Davis played their first game as Quakes, and we welcome them to the team. Mike Scruton made it back to the ice after much time off tending to an injury. It is great to have Mike back on the ice. We had several players either out of town, injured, or washing their hair. Hopefully we'll have a good turnout for our next game, which is Thursday June 11 at 10:15PM.
--Capt. Hogan

San Francisco Quakes
Quakes Tie vs. Puckheads
We were the first on the board when in the second period Barb managed to get a rebound up past the goalie from what looked like an almost impossible angle. But the pressure was on us after the next two goals belonged to the Puckheads. With about five minutes left in the game, Catherine gave Mike a great pass as he was heading towards the next. The goalie came out from the net to lessen the angle and maybe try a poke check. But Mike tipped Catherine's pass up over the goalie and into the net. We held on to the tie and the ref's gave us the choice of whether we wanted a sudden death overtime. Coach Cus sensed that we
had the momentum and said "yes".

In the overtime it looked like we might wrap it up when we had a 3-on-1, but no go. Then an attacker broke through our defenses and got a shot off. Goalie John made the save-- the rebound trickled out along the goal line. Defenseman Jim managed to quickly snatch it out. The game ended in a tie. Afterwards one of the referees came over and even said it was a really exciting game for him to ref!-

--Capt. Mike

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