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Big Weekend in Casper for Midget AA's |
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 Over the
weekend of Feb 4th-6th 2005 the Jr. Eagles Midget Minor AA team went up
to Casper Wyoming to play two game against the Casper Oilers Midget
Major AA team.
The Casper Midget Major AA team were fantastic hosts and even had
promoted the weekends action to the local hockey fans which paid off
creating a full house for Saturday nights game. The local NBC news
affiliate (channel 13) was at each game filming highlights that were
aired on the local news broadcast.
For two periods of the first game the Eagles and the Oilers went
scoreless and the action was fast and physical. Early in the third
period Matt McCauley ripped a beautiful one-timer which found the right side of the net. Later in the third period Chris Aarvig scored and the Eagles went on to win 2-0. Andy Otten was marvelous in goal maintaining the shutout.
The next morning the Oilers were determined to to break their scoring
slump but it was the Eagles who struck first and went on to win the
game 7 to 4. Nate Williams scored twice in the game, Nate Gordon, Colin Kuhn, J. J. Tartarini, Chris Aarvig and Jordan Guttormson added goals as well. It was a huge weekend for the entire Jr. Eagles team including Dylan Thede with multiple assists, Spencer Wilson with some huge heads up play that lead to goals and of course the defense; Byron Davis, Hank Stabeneau, Dominic Guttormson, Matt McCauley, Thomas Streeter and Austin Gunner all played outstanding!
Both Eagles goalies, Andy Otten and Mike Huffman were outstadning during this two game series. (Mike played fantastic even though he was feeling under the weather).
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