Warriors unbeaten

Times Reporter   

 

Four games into this season, the AA Wheatland Warriors have dominated their competition. The peewee Braves sit 1-2, and the midget Chiefs begin their season on Oct. 5 against the Taber Golden Suns.

The Warriors’ first game of the year, Sept. 21 against the Badlands Longhorns, resulted in an 11-2 victory. Rylan Longmuir scored three, and added an assist, while Kyle Merkosky had a natural hat trick in the third period. Joel Krahenbil added two, while Brady Skiffington, Chayse Hnatowich, and Wacy Sandum had single goals.

The next day the Warriors continued their streak, defeating the Red Deer Ramada 5-2 after going down 2-0 early in the game. Longmuir added another hat trick; Hnatowich continued his goal streak, and Ryan Bell contributed one of his own.

On Sept. 28, the bantams beat out Cranbrook CPC, 9-3. Skiffington and Bell each had two. Other contributors were: Merkosky, Krahenbil, Cole Clayton, Robert Butterwick and Kaleb Jardine.

The Southwest Rockies were at the Warriors’ mercy by a score of 8-1 on Sept. 29; Jardine added two, along with Hnatowich, Butterwick, Krahenbil and Merkosky.

The AA Braves lost their first two (2-1 to the Airdrie Lightning on Sept. 21, and 4-2 to the Foothills Bisons the following day), but won by the latter score against the Medicine Hat Venom on Sept. 28.

The losses against the Lightning and Bisons were particularly tough, as Hassan Akl scored at the end of the second but didn’t have enough time to pull off the win against Airdrie; in the Foothills game, the peewee boys were originally winning 2-1, but the Bisons came back, scoring three in the third.

Ryan Orford, Ethan Phan, Tarun Fizer and Eric Sandum scored against the Venom; Phan also added two assists with his goal. Both he and Fizer are on a two game goal streak.