Ball Breaker | Day 2

With Coquitlam, Delta, and New Westminster reigning supreme after day 1, Sunday would be one last chance for players to solidify or earn a spot on their teams’ rosters before the season officially gets underway on Friday the 23rd.

Coquitlam left the arena on Saturday night with a victory over Burnaby and started Sunday where they left off, getting the jump on Langley with three quick goals in the first period of game one. Both teams would switch goalies at the halfway mark of the match with Andrew Copeland relieving Devon Winter, and Dan Lewis taking over for Chris Seidel. After a few minutes without scoring, a fight would liven up the game with John Canil and former Adanac Scott Rouse dropping the gloves as well as any other equipment that would get in the way of throwing punches. Both had good throws but it was over pretty quick for the time it took to get going. Goals from Jeffrey Cornwall and Brandon Bertoia sealed the 7-3 win for Coquitlam; but before the Thunder were done it was Zach Porter who would be the only person to crack Lewis on the weekend, sneaking a ball in five hole.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="723"] Lakers goalie Broadie MacDonald eyes the ball. Despite Burnaby's Matt Jansien playing some tough defense the Adanacs player still manages to get off a shot.[/caption]

To end the Ball Breaker weekend Coquitlam and New Westminster were 2-0, Delta and Poco 1-1, and Langley and Burnaby would end off 0-2.

Both Nanaimo and Victoria were in action on Sunday as well, taking their Island Rivalry up to Campbell River where they received a warm welcome from their Island neighbours. For the second consecutive year Nanaimo managed to take a game off Victoria in the pre-season, and just like 2009 it was a one-goal win. Trailing 10-5 after two periods of play, the Shamrocks came back to give Nanaimo a tough last period, but the final score would be an 11-10 win for the Timbermen. Casey Jackson was the leading scorer for the Shamrocks with four goals, and Cody Bremner lead the T-men with one goal and four assists.