10 Sports WWW.PGCITIZEN.CA | MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2014 Cariboo Cougars’ Chiefs’ late-game win streak hits 12 fl urry produces winner Ted CLARKE Citizen staff Ted CLARKE Citizen staff We only gave up [email protected] Ty Edmonds did his best impression of four goals against The smile of the face of Cariboo Cougars an octopus, but after making three saves in centre Mitchell Williams said it all. a mad scramble around the Prince George on the weekend Winning is fun, and the Cougars have Cougar’ net, there was nothing he could do and one of those was five- made that a habit this season in the B.C. to prevent Liam Stewart from becoming the Major Midget Hockey League. hero for Spokane Chiefs. on-three. Things are Their 4-1 win over the North Island Sil- Stewart’s tip-in found the net behind definitely trending in the vertips Sunday morning at Kin 1 came on Edmonds with six minutes left in the third the heels of a 7-1 victory over the ‘Tips on period to lift the Chiefs to a 3-2 win over right direction. Saturday and that stretched the Cougars the Cougars, ending the Cats’ four-game winning streak to 12 games. winning streak in front of a crowd of 8,038 — Pat Hengen “It feels great, the electricity in that room Saturday at Spokane Arena. feels great,” said the 16-year-old Williams. Defenceman Marc McNulty scored both remember the last time we had an effort “We have lots of depth and every line Cougar goals, and now has four goals in the like this after getting in at 4 a.m.” can go out there and face the top line on past five games for a total of six this season. The Cougars (16-17-0-0) remained third the other team. Everybody is contribut- Griffen Outhouse and Dorrin Luding, who McNulty got his stick on Joseph Carvalho’s in the B.C. Division, just two points behind ing.” both were on top of their games on the point shot at the end of the first period to the (17-16-2-0) who lost 4-0 Centring a line with Riley Coish weekend. make a 2-1 game and tied it with a slapper Saturday in . The Cougars have and Brendan Moore, the six-foot-one, Outhouse made 30 saves Saturday as the from the slot 7:18 into the second period. two games in hand over Victoria. 198-pound Williams was rewarded with Cougars outshot North Island 37-31. Lud- Hudson Elyniuk opened the scoring with The Chiefs (16-12-3-0) moved into third scored two goals Saturday. He also picked ing faced just 15 shots Sunday while the the Teddy Bear Toss goal 9:16 into the first in the U.S. Division. up a goal and an assist in the rematch. Cougars put 44 on Silvertips goalie John and Adam Helewka added to the total later Spokane won 4-3 Friday in Portland to “In practice last week my line pushed Hawthorne. in the period with his 16th of the season, end a five-game losing streak. On Saturday and pushed for more icetime and the “Their goaltending was good both games finishing off a 2-on-1 break. the Chiefs outshot the Cougars 16-7 in the coaches saw that and threw us out on pow- and I thought we executed better in our The Cougars ended up with a split on third period. er play and we capitalized on that. I have d-zone than we did [Saturday] night,” said their two-game road trip, winning 3-1 In total, shots were 31-25 in Spokane’s to play my role as a big power forward and Cougars head coach Trevor Sprague, who Friday over the WHL U.S. Division-leading favour. not try to be a sniper or a grinder. celebrated his 37th birthday Sunday. Everett Silvertips. “Our team came out of that game last “I have to give props to my linemates, “When we come out as five-man unit I They came out strong against the Chiefs night really invested,” Chiefs coach Don Moore and Coish, we’ve been together think we’re a team you can’t reckon with but were stymied by goalie Garret Hughson, Nachbaur told the Spokane Spokesman basically all year and they’ve helped out a in our own end. I loved our power play who made 23 saves as the game’s first star. review. “We worked really worked hard lot.” today – Williams’s unit has been banging Edmonds also was solid in net in his sixth [Friday]. ... I liked our effort in both games. All four Cougar goals came on power in some goals. It’s something that’s been straight start. We were really tired and it took some men- plays. After setting up Coish in the first haunting us a little bit and it came out well Both teams travelled through the night tal toughness.” period, Williams tipped in a Todd Bredo this weekend.” leading up to Saturday’s game and Cougars “I thought we traded chances too many shot three minutes into the second period Austin Gray led the way in Saturday’’s assistant coach Mike Hengen said that lack times in the first two periods. That’s why to give the Cougars the lead. game with a goal and two assists. Jandric, of sleep didn’t take anything away from the they got back in the game. In the third, we Steven Jandric scored a beauty in the Justin Almeida, Wesley Shipton and Chase effort of his players. had the puck in the areas that we wanted it. third period, his second of the game, on a DuBois also scored. Kyle Topping was the The Cougars had numerous quality Our structure was there and our structure high-speed wraparound after taking the lone Silvertip goalscorer. chances throughout the game and came got us the game-winning goal.” puck behind the North Island net. Cats defenceman Joel Patsey left close to tying it in the final minute with The Cougars lost defenceman Josh Ander- The Silvertips opened the scoring 57 Sunday’s game in the first period with a Edmonds on the bench. son to an undisclosed injury in the Everett seconds into the game on an odd-man rush shoulder injury. “I thought we were making some big-time game. and captain Matthew Cahill cashed in a The Cougars open play in the Mac’s plays in tight situations and that gave us a They were also without winger David drop pass. Major Midget Tournament in Calgary, real shot to win that game,” said Hengen. Soltes (attending Slovakia’s world junior Heading into next weekend’s two-game Dec. 26, and Williams says he can’t wait to “We only gave up four goals against on the camp) and defenceman Sam Ruopp (who series on the road against the Greater show the hockey world what his team is weekend and one of those was on a five-on- served the second of a two-game suspen- Vancouver Canadians, the Cougars lead capable of. three, so things are definitely trending in sion for a kneeing major penalty in the the league with a 21-2-1 record. The “The Mac’s last year was a blast, even the right direction. The kids are giving their Saskatoon game Tuesday). Silvertips, ninth in the BCMMHL, dropped though we didn’t win any games, and all. Spokane will be at CN Centre Tuesday to 3-17-3. we’re looking forward to it,” said Williams, “You don’t beat Kelowna in their rink and and Wednesday, the last games for the Cou- Since Oct. 26, the Cougars allowed one an affiliate player for the . Everett in their rink [very often] and I don’t gars before a nine-day Christmas break. goal or less in those 12 games. Part of the “There are so many fans and big buildings reason for that has been the play of goalies with a lot of electricity.” Caledonia biathletes team up in World Cup

Ted CLARKE Citizen staff qualify for the top-60 pursuit on Sunday. Crawford, who was 34th in the sprint, On Friday, Prince George biathletes just missed the medal podium in the 10 km Megan Heinicke and Sarah Beaudry found pursuit, finishing fifth, six seconds behind out what’s it’s like to compete against each bronze-medalist Anais Bescond of France. other in a World Cup race when they raced Kaisa Makarainen of Finland won in 30:44. the sprint in Hochfilzen, Austria. Ekaterina Glazyrina of Russia claimed One day later, the two Caledonia Nordic silver. Ski Club members were teammates in the Canada placed sixth out of 24 in the women’s 4 X 6 kilometre relay, helping men’s 4 X 7.5 km relay Saturday. The team Canada to an 11th-place finish in the 23- included Nathan Smith of Calgary, Brendan team event. Green of Hay River, N.W.T., Marc Andre Heinicke, a 26-year-old World Cup vet- Bedard of Saint-Croix, Que., and Scott Per- eran who has competed in two Olympics, ras of Regina. took the lead leg and hit 17 of 20 targets, Gold went to Russia (Maxim Tsvekov, completing the course in 19:51. Timofey Lapshin, Dmitry Malysko, Anton The 20-year-old Beaudry, in only the sec- Shipulin), France won silver and Norway ond race of her World Cup career, also had took bronze. Canada was 2:55 behind Rus- just three misses in her four shooting bouts. sia. Beaudry completed the the third leg of the Martin Fourcade of France won the men’s relay in 18:31, taking over from Rosanna 12.5 km pursuit Sunday in 32:53, followed Crawford of Canmore. Audrey Vaillancourt by Simon Schepp of Germany and Jakov of Quebec City raced the anchor leg for Fak of Slovenia. Green was 44th and Smith Canada. placed 49th. Germany (Luise Kummer, Franziska The World Cup tour comes to Pokljuka Hildebrand, Vanessa Hinz, Franziska Slovenia for races this weekend. Preuss) won gold in 1:11:40, followed by The women’s sprint is on Thursday and Belarus and the Czech Republic. the men’s sprint is on Friday. Pursuits are Canada ended up 1:09 off the winning scheduled for Saturday and mass start races pace. will follow on Sunday. Heinicke placed 61st in Friday’s sprint Live webcasts of the races will be avail- while Beaudry was 63rd. Both failed to able on biathlonworld.com. Bryant passes Jordan MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Kobe Bryant has reached rarefied air. The Los Angeles Lakers star passed Michael Jordan for third on the NBA’s career scoring list Sunday night. Bryant entered the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves needing nine points to pass the icon with whom he is often compared. He got the mark with two free throws with 5:24 to play in the second quarter. Now only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone have scored more points than Bryant. The Timberwolves stopped the game, and a Lakers- heavy crowd gave Bryant a standing ovation.

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