Cats win 2 move into 2nd place!

by Coach Elliott on February 8, 2010

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The Wildcats played 2 NHC games over the weekend winning both against Southview and Bowling Green to move into 2nd place in league play with 1 weekend left. St. Francis with 15 points leads conference play followed by the Cats at 14 and then SJJ with 13.  Northview needs a win over St. Johns on Saturday to claim at least a second place finish in league play. There remains a possibilty of a league title with a win and help from SJJ and Findlay against St. Francis. A 1st or 2nd place finish would run Northview’s streak to 6 straight years of finishing in either 1st or 2nd in the NHC red division.

This past weekend the Cats claimed the mayors cup over Southview with a 6-4 win on Friday and avenged an earlier loss to BG with a 2-1 win on the road Sunday. In Fridays game the Cats started slow giving up an early goals to SV before Anthony Holley evened the score at 1. Mark Hall scored on the powerplay to give the Cats their first lead. The lead was short lived as the Cougars hit for 2 goals in the 2nd to take a 3-2 lead mid-way through the game. Aaron Booth Tied the game at the end of the 2nd to give the Cats some much needed momentum.  Northview would take control of the game with a 3 goal outburst in a 3 minute span of the 3rd. Tyler Harding finished off a nice pass from Zach Felser, and Defensmen Graham Kelsey and Jordan Jones pushed the lead to 6-3.  Southview would add a late goal to close the scoring out in a 6-4 win.

Sunday the Cats jumped out to a 2-0 first period lead before hanging on to deafeat Bowling green 2-1. Felser opened the scoring on a breakaway goal off a nice play from Kelsey and Dalton Carter.  Nolan Culver added a goal near the end of the first to make it 2-0 after 1. The score remained that way until the 5 minute mark of the 3rd when the Bobcats closed to within 1 on a power play goal.  Northview held off BG for the rest of the game killing off another powerplay late for the final.

The wins pushed the Cats overall record to 15-8-3 and 7-2 in league play. Northview will wrap up regular season play this Saturday at 7 with the Titans of St. Johns @ Tam-o-Shanter.

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Cats defeat St. Francis in OT

by Coach Elliott on February 2, 2010

The Wildcats gave #1 state ranked St. Francis their second loss of the season and first in league play this past Saturday with a thrilling 2-1 shootout win.

St. Francis struck first on a goal by Scott Loy just over 6 minutes into the game. Unlike the previous 2 games the Cats didn’t let the early deficit get to them and stayed discipline in their attack. Aaron Booth responded for the Cats later in the period on a beautiful individual effort to tie the score at 1. After beating St. Francis Defenceman Ross Pilmore wide Booth was able to drag the puck past another St. Francis D-man before knocking the water bottle off the net with a top shelf snipe.

The second, third and overtime periods were back and forth hard fought play with both teams and goalies doing their best to win it. However after 53 minutes of play the score remained tied at 1. Due to an adopted rule for a shootout this year the teams would have to settle it in breakaway fashion. Insert Austin Gryca. He had delivered many quality saves to get to this point, but saved his best for the shootout.  He stopped 3 of the top goal scorers in the league in 4 attempts and Dalton Carter and Booth scored to set up Nolan Culver for the dramatic conclusion. Culver deeked to his back hand before lifting a shot under the bar to send the Northview faithful into hysteria!

With the win the Cats moved their overall record to 13-8-3 and 5-2 in league play. This weekend the Cats take on Southview for the Mayors cup, before traveling to B.G. with a game versus the Bobcats on Sunday.

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Cats defeat SV

January 29, 2010

Thursday on Senior night the Cats rode a 5 goal outburst in the second period to shutout the Cougars 7-0 and move their  record to  12-8-3 and 4-2 in league play.
Kyler Omey scored his first career goal and the game winner near the end of the first period to give the Cats a 1-0 lead [...]

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