Sports briefs: Saskatchewan Rush win final home game of season
Results from Saskatoon sports teams this weekend including Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League finals and pre-season action from Western Women’s Canadian Football League
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The Saskatchewan Rush won’t be moving on to the National Lacrosse League playoffs, so Saturday’s regular season matchup against the visiting Colorado Mammoth marked the final time the team would be playing in front of a hometown crowd for the 2022-23 campaign.
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The game ended with a 12-11 overtime victory for the Rush, but also included a special moment for Saskatchewan lacrosse fans as goaltender Laine Hruska, who hails from Warman, started in net for the Rush, making him the first-ever Saskatchewan player to start a game for the team.
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Hruska was drafted 13th overall by the Georgia Swarm in the 2020 NLL draft and signed a free-agent contract with the Rush in 2022.
During Saturday’s game, the Rush and Mammoth battled back-and-forth, but the hometown team held the 11-8 lead midway through the fourth quarter as Saskatchewan’s Robert Church scored his third goal of the game.
A few minutes later, Colorado’s Eli McLaughlin went on a scoring spree of three in a row — his fifth, sixth and seventh goals of the game — in three-and-a-half minutes to tie the game at 11.
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Neither team was able to break the tie in the final 52 seconds of regulation time, but Church only needed 1:28 of the overtime period to net the game winner for the Rush.
Hruska made 36 saves in the game, while his Mammoth counterpart Dillon Ward made 37.
Saskatchewan will wrap up their season with a road game against the Las Vegas Desert Dogs on April 29.
In 2020, Saskatchewan Rush goalie Laine Hruska from Warman was taken in the first round of the National Lacrosse League draft by the Georgia Swarm. Photo by Matt Smith /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
North Stars sweep Bombers in SJHL final
The Battlefords North Stars are the Canterra Seeds Cup champions after winning their best-of-seven Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League final series 4-0 over the Flin Flon Bombers.
After winning the first two games of the series in front of a hometown crowd, the North Stars travelled to Flin Flon for Games 3 and 4.
In Friday’s Game 3, Steven Kesserling picked up two goals to help lead the Battlefords to a 6-2 victory.
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The next night, Flin Flon led 2-1 just past the midway point of the first period, but back-to-back goals by the North Stars’ Jordan Grill gave the visitors a 3-2 lead at the first intermission, and they carried that lead to a 7-4 victory.
Along with the SJHL championship title, the North Stars have also earned a berth to the Centennial Cup as the league’s representative.
The Centennial Cup, which pits the 10 top junior A hockey teams from across Canada against each other, will take place May 11-21 in Portage la Prairie, MB.
Valkyries earn pre-season victory against Rage
The defending Western Women’s Canadian Football League champion Saskatoon Valkyries continued their winning ways on Saturday, earning a 50-2 pre-season victory against the host Calgary Rage.
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Running back Drew Lundquist picked up three touchdowns in the game, while teammates Sarah Wright and Haley Girolami each added two. All the touchdowns had successful one-point conversions, and the team added a punt single.
Calgary’s two points came after they forced the Valkyries to concede a safety.
The Valkyries will kick off their regular season on May 7 when they host provincial rivals, the Regina Riot, at 1 p.m. at SMF Field.
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They fired up a third-straight win Saturday night — and their seventh in eight games — with another no-doubt victory over the rival Saskatchewan Rush.
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This one — a 14-6 sizzler — came in Saskatoon for a third win on the 2022-23 National Lacrosse League season over their neighbours to the east.
And this one came thanks to the hot hands of forward Tanner Cook, who served up a whopping six goals on the night.
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“It was fun,” said Cook, with a chuckle, after the game. “The most fun part was seeing the game progress — like the defence making great plays and the offence are coming down and scoring one after the other and everybody’s smiling and smacking each other after we score. Everybody was smiling, and that was the best part to see.
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“And it’s absolutely fantastic to beat the Rush (again). There’s nothing better.”
It wasn’t just Cook with big offence in ’Toon Town, either, as teammates Jesse King and Dan Taylor also stepped up with multiple snipes — the captain with four goals, and Taylor with a hat-trick.
Meanwhile, with all that action in the Rush end, lost on the evening was another outstanding goaltending effort from Christian Del Bianco at the other end. The superstar goalie made 44 stops for the victorious Roughnecks.
All told, the win ran the Roughnecks to 10-4 on the campaign and pushes them to the cusp of a playoff berth.
“We don’t look at the scoreboard, standings-wise,” said Roughnecks head coach Curt Malawsky. “We just play the one in front of us. It’s a really big thing to play in the moment.”
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The Riggers were in the moment from the opening face-off to take control of this one.
Beginning with King’s goal five minutes in, the visitors beat starting goalie Alex Buque three times in a span of 2:39, with Cook and Taylor netting the second and third goals to chase the starter and bring in backup ’tender Eric Penney. To round out the first quarter, veteran defender Curtis Manning got up in the rush in transition and scored off Jeff Cornwall’s pass, giving the Roughnecks a 4-0 advantage.
“We wanted to make sure we had possession, zap their momentum and take the crowd out of it a little bit,” said Malawsky of the early success. “I thought we did a good job possessing the ball and giving ourselves good chances, and Delbs made good saves early to let our offence settle in.
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“It’s important to start on time … If you can get a good jump to start, it’s really tough — I’ve said for years — to play catch-up in lacrosse.”
The second frame started with a pair of Rush goals — from Mike Messenger and Ryan Keenan. But Taylor’s second goal of the night on a quick-stick shot stopped the home side’s rally for a moment. At 5-2, Mark Matthews beat Del Bianco through the five-hole to give the hosts life again. However, Cook started to heat up with a pair of counters — including one by out-muscling a defender and scoring with one arm — and King connected for his second after being left all alone with time in front of Penney to restore a commanding lead at halftime.
With his team up 8-3 to start the second half, Cook then ensured the decision early in the third quarter with three consecutive goals to post the sock-trick. His first came on the power play followed by tallies off feeds from Tyler Pace. The Rush could only answer with Ryan Church’s late goal in the frame, as the Roughnecks opened up an 11-4 lead through three stanzas.
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While Cook cooled off in the final frame, it was Taylor and King taking over offensively, as the Calgary kid turned the hat-trick before King posted a pair of power-play goals for the visiting side. Goals by Rush forwards Church and Dan Lintner — on the power play — proved way too late, too late to round out scoring.
Cook dished out a game-high seven points, while King finished with six, as did Pace — all assists.
“It was a pretty complete game in a tough building against a good team,” said Roughnecks GM Mike Board. “Christian was outstanding in net, our defence played hard and physical, and our offence put the ball in the net. Everyone stepped up to get a very important win.”
And it wasn’t the first biggie against the rivals.
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Earlier on the schedule, the Roughnecks wrecked the Rush 13-6 at Scotiabank Saddledome. And then came the St. Patrick’s Day party last week, when the Riggers scored an 11-6 triumph over the Saskatchewan squad.
With three losses hung on them by the Calgary crew — especially these two in a row — the Rush are in danger of missing the NLL playoffs. They’ve fallen to 5-8 on the season.
Meanwhile, the Roughnecks are rolling, with opportunities next Friday both to clinch a post-season spot and move into first place in the NLL’s Western Conference, when they face the West-best San Diego Seals (10-2) in Southern California (8 p. m., TSN.ca).
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