Campbell River 1 Victoria 8
Two goals each by first star Tyler Delli-Carri, who added four helpers, and second star, captain Grady Sluggett who added three assists enabled the Victoria Cougars to blow past the Campbell River Storm 8-1 in front of over 300 fans Wednesday afternoon in the first VIJHL game at Sooke’s SeaParc Arena since the Stingers left for Westshore in 2008.
Victoria, which is playing their home games in other venues as their home rink Archie Browning Arena in Esquimalt completes renovations, led 2-0 and 5-0 by periods. Their other goals came off the sticks of third star Dalton Toma, James Clarke, Hunter Thorkilson and Avery Lowe. Armaan Kaila stopped 27 shots in the Cougars cage.
Aidan Yu on a power play had the lone goal for the Storm, which received 50 saves from goalies Mason Hillier and Sawyer Wallin.
Lake Cowichan 6 Peninsula 3
First star Noah Pfab’s fabulous 38 save effort backstopped the Lake Cowichan Kraken to a 6-3 doubling of the Peninsula Panthers as 184 watched at the Panorama Recreation Centre.
Lake Cowichan led 2-1 and 4-1 by periods and had goals from second star Jaxon Woodward, Avraham Brown, Cameron Jefferies, Colten Palmer, Ethan Nagy and Thomas Harrow. Third star of the contest was the Kraken’s Aliaksei Keiko.
Carsen Somers, Braden Boman and Luke Christensen replied for Peninsula, with Colton Pye blocking 33 shots between the Panthers pipes.
Saanich 3 Westshore 6
A pair of goals from first star Sam Spring helped the Westshore Wolves leap the Saanich Predators 6-3 with 176 spectators taking in the action at The Q Centre.
Westshore held 3-1 and 6-3 period leads, and had their other markers from Shane Fillinger, Alejandro Snead, Noah Gebicki and Samuel Wong. Second star Trace Anderson had three assists and Oskar Ponomaryov made 28 stops as the Wolves ran their record to a perfect 8-0 atop the South Division.
Second star Maxime Simard scored twice including one on a penalty shot and Linden Alsdorf one for the Predators, who had James Hall and Michael Roof share netminding duties and combining to make 57 saves.
Comox Valley 2 Oceanside 1
Declan Johannessen’s goal at 7:01 of the third proved to be the winner as the Comox Valley Glacier Kingsedged the Oceanside Generals 2-1 in front of 398 fans at Oceanside Place.
The goaltending battle saw first star Ander Reyes of the Glacier Kings stop 37 shots and second star Donato Padula 33 for the Generals, with Jacob Leamy earning third star honours by scoring Oceanside’s lone goal.
Suhaan Nagra opened the scoring in the second period for the victors following a scoreless first period, and held the 1-0 lead heading into the third.
