Jamie Wicks (Fort Collins, Colorado)
Alex Hudspeth (Hagerstown, Maryland)
Steve Cashin (Levittown, PA)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, September 12, 2008
Rantasalmi, Finland. – Lou Sarcone (Marlton, New Jersey) scored the first goal of the 2008-09 season for the Eagles at the 11:33 mark of the first period. Collin Port (Kamloops, BC) and Joshua Ouellette (Ottawa, Canada) assisted on the power play goal.
"This was a good start and win for the Eagles," said Keith McAdams, head coach of the Varkaus Eagles. "We have had only a few practices, but I can see we have good hard working guys. There were a lot of positives to build on from our first game. We will definitely get better as the team gets our systems in place. We play Saturday in Mikkeli which will give us another game under our belt before the start of the season next week.”
Josh Levesque (Ottawa Canada) scored with a shot from the point at 13:49 in the first period. Paul Gagnon (Troy, MI) assisted on the goal and Shane Degrace (Moncton, CA) did a great job finishing his check and screening the goalie.
RU scored a power play goal at the 19:37 of the first period. The goal was scored by Olli Linsen and Arttu Reponen assisted on the play.
In the second frame, Alex Hudspeth (Hagerstown, Maryland) picked the corner from the slot and beat RU goalie Severi Silvennoinen with a snap shot into the top-left corner. Josh Levesque assisted on the goal.
Lou Sarcone scored his second goal of the night at the 21:45 mark of the second period. Josh Levesque took the shot from the point and Collin Port jumped on the rebound. RU scored their second goal of the night at the 28:09 mark on a defensive zone mistake. The Eagles left their goalie Dan Earles (Penetanguishene, Ontario) all alone in front of the net. RU Juho Nykanen score on the rebound. Tommi Falck and Jani Appelgren assisted on the goal.
Collin Port scored at the 36:01 mark of the second period when he took a wrist shot over the outstretched glove of RU goaltender Jani Muhonen. Lou Sarcone assisted on the goal.
RU scored their third goal on offensive rush at 44.03 point in the third period. Tomi Naukkarinnen scored the goal on a nice passing play created by Arttu Reponen and Toni Kohonen.
NOTES:
The Eagles out shot RU 39 -29 margin
John Barrow (Kitchener, Ontario) played the Goal the first half of the game giving up one goal. Dan Earles played the second half of the game surrendering 2 goals.
GAME SUMMARY
Scoring By Period
Eagles 2 3 0 1 -- 5
RU 1 1 1 0 -- 3
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