Saints move up the BCIHL charts after pulling off weekend sweep of Eastern Washington Eagles
By The Nelson Daily Sports
The Selkirk College Saints experienced its best weekend in school history as the Castlegar-based club swept a two-game weekend series against the Eastern Washington Eagles — and B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League rookie-of-the-month, Jordan Wood was right in the middle of the scoring.
Wood had three points during the weekend to lead the Saints to a pair of identical 4-1 victories, Friday at the Castlegar Recreation Centre and Saturday at Eastern Washington.
“It was a great weekend (for us),” Selkirk Athletic Director Kim Verigin told The Nelson Daily.
Scott Traverse, Castlegar’s Scott Jago and Sandro Moser, the latter two coming on the power play, scored in the second period to power the Saints to the win Friday.
Eastern’s Bret Kellogg cut the margin to 3-1 after 40 minutes.
But Garrett Kucher padded the Selkirk lead in third Spencer Wong shutout the Eagles the rest of the way to bring home the two points.
Selkirk out shot Eastern 46-37 as former Kootenay International Junior Hockey League standout for the Spokane Braves, Jason Greenwell was busy in goal.
Saturday, Wood, named the game’s first star, scored a power play goal in the first period to get Selkirk out of the gates on a positive note.
The score remained the same until the third when the Saints exploded for three goals in a span of six minutes late in the frame to put the game away.
Adam Makaroff, Kucher and Nithen Dhallwal scored for the visitors.
AJ Saunders spoiled the shutout bid by Wong in the third, scoring at 19:01 of the final frame.
The weekend sweep moves Selkirk, 3-5, into a three-way tie for third in BCIHL standings with Kelowna’s Okanagan College and Thompson Rivers University of Kamloops.
Simon Fraser leads the league with a 6-0-1 record. Eastern Washington is second two points ahead of Selkirk.
Selkirk is back on the ice this weekend when the club hosts Trinity Western University of Langley.
Game times are 7:30pm Sat and 1:30pm Sunday at Castlegar Rec Centre.
MARCHING NEWS: Jordan Wood quickly emerged as the Saints’ go-to offensive option during a first month in the BCIHL that was highlighted by a hat trick in a 4-2 home ice win over the University of Victoria. The former Kelowna Chief and Westside Warrior then added another eight points over his next four games, including three assists in a narrow loss to Okanagan College and a pair of goals on the road against SFU. Wood closed out the month tied for second in BCIHL scoring.
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