BCJALL 
THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE
BCJALL
First Games Get Underway
Submitted by League Reporter, Jen Mutas
Photos supplied by Paul Sparrow
VICTORIA (3) vs NANAIMO (6)
Taking their Island rivalry to the next level and facing each other for the first time in the post season, the Victoria/Nanaimo matchup in the first round has all the makings of a quality series. After rounding out the regular season by playing three games in four days the Timbermen had four days to prepare themselves for the first round before they headed down the ever-familiar Island highway to Bear Mountain Arena for game one. Placed two spots higher in the season rankings the Shamrocks may have been the favourite on paper, but in the short best-of-three series the T-Men had their sights on a road win before they host game two on Sunday.
Both teams traded momentum in the first two periods with Nanaimo taking the one goal lead at the first break and then Victoria breaking out in the second with two power play goals from Blair Pinnock to tie the game up at 7. In the final period each team would put the same amount of shots on net but the T-Men made more count with Kyle Hofer getting the eventual game winner and Ryan Forslund providing the insurance goal on a set up started with Nanaimo goalie Scott Bannister. Final score from Bear Mountain Arena was 10-8 for the visiting T-Men who now head home with the advantage for game two.
Continuing his streak of points in the BCJALL since July 1st, Joey Fendick had a seven point (4 goals 3 helpers) night for the Timbermen on Saturday followed by Hofer with a hat trick and three assists, and ‘tender Bannister held the iron together as he faced the most shots of the two goalies and had two helpers of his own. Casey Jackson had four points for the ‘Rocks in the losing effort, and teammates Karsen Leung and Blair Pinnock each had two goals and one assist.
Game two gets underway at 7:30 Tuesday night at the Nanaimo Ice Centre.
DELTA (4) vs BURNABY (5)
Over on the mainland the Islanders were looking to expand their winning streak of five games into the post-season as they hosted the Lakers for game one of the other first round series. Both teams played each other for their last game of the regular season in a match that saw Delta take the game by a score of 15-3 and game one of their post-season series had much of the same feeling.
Delta's Scott Jones looks for the rebound as Burnaby's back up goalie Devon Winters squeezes the ball for the save.[/caption]Game two in this series goes down on Sunday night at 7:00PM at Bill Copeland Arena in Burnaby.