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Championship Night
Semi Finals: #2 Tacos vs #3 El Pollo
Fairchild Park, Sunday 3/12: The SARHL Playoffs would start with the 2 verses 3 matchup between the Tacos and El Pollo. With a chance to move on to the SARHL Winter Finals on the line, this game was a battle. The first period saw both teams test the keepers, Newton for El Pollo and Ricky for Tacos, with only one shot making it through coming from El Pollo. The second period remained tilted towards the chicken as they added goals 2 and 3 early on. The Tacos would answer back with two goals of their own to send the game into the third period, 3-2 El Pollo lead.
An early Tacos goal would equalize the game going into the final 10 minutes of the semi final match up. El Pollo would score with 5 minutes remaining to take a 4-3 lead over the Tacos. After taking their time out and pulling the keeper, the Tacos would be unable to add any goals and conceded 2 empty netters. El Pollo would secure the semifinal victory 6-3 and move on to play Dignowity for the SARHL Cup.
Finals: #1 Dignowity vs #3 El Pollo
Fairchild Park, Sunday 3/12: The SARHL Championship game featured the number one seeded team, Dignowity, led by captain Gary Burdge and the recent semi-final winners, El Pollo, led by captain Andrew Minerd. Keepers in net would be Newton for El Pollo and Ricky for Dignowity. The match was refereed by Brian Van vlyman, USA-Hockey Level 2 Official Certified.
Coming off the semifinal victory, would the rush of victory be enough to power El Pollo’s legs for the upcoming double header game? or would the earned bye week of Dignowity prove to be a vital impact to the nights game?
The first period saw El Pollo jump out to a hot start, carrying over a fast rate of play from the third period that just sent them to the finals. Passes were moving tape to tape and El Pollo started off the game with goals from Minerd and Dreary to extend an early 2-0 lead over Dignowity. As the seconds were winding down in the first, Dignowity found an odd man rush led to a backdoor goal going in just seconds after the buzzer rang keeping the game at the 2-0 El Pollo lead.
What appeared to be a crushing blow, a late goal waved off for Dignowity, would prove only to fuel the boys up during the intermission. Captain Burdge would tally 2 goals to start the period an even the score at 2 each. Shortly after, Jason Evans would find the back of the net to give Dignowity the led for the first time of the game. Just as the momentum started to flow for the meats, the train would derail ohio style with back to back tripping penalties. El Pollo was unable to capitalize on either powerplay and the game would remain 3-2 Dignowity lead at the end of 2.
In the final period, the scales started to tilt more towards Dignowity as Jaiden Hernandez added another goal, extending the Meat’s lead to 2. Once again, Dignowity would commit a tripping penalty and allow the flower of hope to grow for El Pollo. The penalty would expire and the teams would battle 4 on 4 again in the third. With just 6 minutes to play, Captain Burdge would find the net again for Dignowity opening up a 5-2 game. The final push from El Pollo added 1 more tally to the board but would stop there and as time expired, the game would end 5-3 Dignowity.
Congratulations to the champions of the SARHL Winter ’23 Season, Dignowity Meats.
From left to right, Iacarella, Evans, Burdge, Dominguez (G), Lopez, and Hernandez
Iguanas Hockey
Iguanas Travel Hockey is headed to Houston! We are working on teams for bronze and silver – contact Gary or Penn to get involved.
