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Drumheller Senior Titans shut out Canmore

The Drumheller Senior Titans cruised their way to another victory under Friday Night Lights at home.
The Titans hosted Canmore on October 15. It was a runaway as the Titans scored two touchdowns in the first quarter and two in the fourth quarter, and shut out Canmore with a 28-0 victory.
“Canmore is adapting their offence throughout the season, so the first time we played them a lot was in the air. This time we played them a lot was between the tackles and over the top,” explained Coach Fournier. “Our defence did a heck of job adjusting. We are playing some tough opponents so this helped us prepare for these scenarios, and get healthy and get some guys in the lineup. We’re getting young guys in, and they are making a difference .”
He said Davis Watson had a great game at linebacker, and Haydn Jones was steady again.
“Shutouts are hard to come by especially when you are playing the same team two or three times a year,” said Fournier. “Offensively, I thought we played better, I think we are more fluid in our passing game.”
“We made a few errors, and guys were out with injuries, but that’s the nature of the game.”
The post-season is quickly closing in on the Titans. This Thursday the Titans will be in Olds for their final league game, and then will have a weekend off. The following weekend they will be playing in the league semifinals. Currently, they are ranked second in the province for Tier IV teams and are looking towards provincials.
He hopes the team will continue to get healthy down the stretch.
“It seemed like in the first half of the season, we were playing every game down a couple of guys in key positions. It appears we are getting to a point where we are tougher, we are getting guys healthy. We are rotating some of the younger guys in more, they are coming in and out of the game, keeping guys fresh. We are in a better spot than we were earlier in the season,” said Fournier.

Dragons extend streak to three wins

The Dragons are sporting an 8-3-1 record after a strong week of topping South Division teams.
The Dragons were in Olds on Wednesday, October 13, to take on the Grizzlys. Olds was up one after the first period, but four minutes into the second, Vann Yuhas tied up the game on the powerplay. Olds jumped out ahead again, but the Dragons evened it up with six minutes left in the second.
In the third period, Kasey Heimstra and Ty Daneault put the Dragons up 4-2. Olds scored at the 16:23 mark to bring it closer, but Luke Fennig scored on the empty net. The Grizzlys answered back with 39 seconds left to make the game 5-4, but another empty netter from Kody Willick with five seconds left put the Dragons up 6-4.
On Friday, October 15, the Dragons were in Okotoks to take on the Oilers.
Sam Simard scored just 16 seconds in and never looked back. He scored again less than two minutes later, and then a minute and 20 seconds later, Yuhas put the Dragons up 3-0 to end the first period.
The Dragons attack continued in the second period as Carter Belitski scored twice within the first 5:35 of the second. The Oilers finally got on the scoreboard with 5:59 left in the second, but that was all they could muster. In the third period, Cyle Clayton added one more as the Dragons went on to a 6-1 win.
On Saturday night, October 16, the Dragons were back on home ice to play the Canmore Eagles. While the Eagles scored first, Yuhas evened it up in the powerplay 12:40 in. Clayton added one 19 seconds later, and then Yuhas scored his second to end the first up 3-1. The Dragons kept the pressure up in the second with Fennig scoring on the powerplay, and then Kiano Robinson added another less than two minutes later. Ty Whitford added one more to go up 6-1. The Eagles added one more with two and half minutes left in the second. Midway through the third period, Grayson Dietrich scored on the powerplay as the Dragons went on to a 7-2 victory.
The Dragons scored 19 goals in three games and earned back the third spot in the Viterra South Division. This Friday, October 22 they host the Fort McMurray Oil Barons and on Saturday, the Drayton Valley Thunder.

Terrapins end league play with win

Terrapin turtle logo for helmets

The Peewee Terrapins finished league play with a convincing win over Lacombe as they head into playoffs.
The Terrapins hosted Lacombe on Saturday afternoon, October 9 at home and led the whole way as they cruised to a 55-6 win. This was a good win after coming off their first defeat of the season.
“We were coming off the first loss of the year, so the whole team, offence, and defence came out aggressive and focused. We had a good lead by half time, and we sort of cruised after that,” said coach Brad Iverson.
“We have three really good running backs that can all score on any given play.”
The Terrapins have been having a strong season and had a chance to go undefeated, but fell to the Red Deer Hornets, who are now sporting an untarnished record.
Because of their successful season, the team received a bye to the semi-final round and will not be playing this coming weekend.
The team will face The Red Deer Steelers in the first round, a team they already beat in their outing.
“We did pretty good against them,” said Coach Iverson.
He says they will be working on cleaning up their game in the coming weeks to prepare for the playoffs.
“We’ll be adding some new plays that will help us be more successful against the Red Deer teams,” said Iverson.

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