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Roller Schedule Released

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The Laurel C division will have some familiar faces as the 2007 roller season begins in a couple of weeks. The Squirrels will be reacquainted with Silver Spring, The 5 Holes, Chupacabras, Enigma and Mors ab Alto, and will face Washington Whale and the Swingers for the first time. The Squirrels will play these teams three times each, except for the Swingers, who they will only play twice.

A quick look at each team:

The Screaming Squirrels will make a push for a third championship in five years after adding high-scorer Chris Wautel from the 5 Holes to their roster.

Defending champs Enigma are expected to be a threat with new skater Mike Vogt, who also plays for the Dragons in the B Division, and used to play with the Shockwave on Sundays with Squirrels Kit Watson and Bob Sewell.

Silver Spring started strong last season then fizzled. If attendance is not an issue for this team, they can beat anyone at any time.

The 5 Holes, runner-ups two of the past three seasons, will have to step it up a notch as they not only play without Chris Wautel, but must overcome a couple of suspensions carried over from last season. However, they managed to pick up the league’s leading scorer, Greg Goldkind, after Goldkind’s team, Snipe, folded. Goldkind led the league in scoring by a wide margin last season.

The Chupacabras once in a while pull off a victory against a top-notch team, but typically finish in the middle of the pack. Two seasons ago they knocked off the heavily-favored Hurricanes to make it to the championship game before getting beat by the Squirrels

Unless Mors ab Alto added some scorers, they may be bottom-dwellers again.

Washington Whale comes from the weeknight B division. They have hard-nosed players and can skate with just about anyone, but an aging lineup has presumably slowed them over the years.

The Squirrels will no longer have to worry about Snipe, who folded after being told they would move up to the B division, or the Hurricanes, who requested to be moved back down to C. Also gone are the Bullhawks and Storm. The Squirrels know little about the Swingers.

The Squirrels team practice will be Thursday, April 12, at 8 p.m. All games this season will be in the Logsdon Pavilion, aka the back rink.

Wautel Joins Squirrels Roller Team

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The Screaming Squirrels picked up free-agent Chris Wautel from rival the 5 Holes, after the 5 Holes decided to trim down their roster.

Wautel, who the Squirrels have played against for years while he was on Mors ab Alto and the 5 Holes, is bound to greatly improve the Squirrels’ scoring numbers in 2007. He had 35 goals and 16 assists for 51 points in 2006, figuring into nearly half of the 5 Holes’ scoring.

The Screaming Squirrels unanimously approved adding Wautel to the roster while trading stories of roughing him up and shutting him down (though he scored a goal or two to haunt the Squirrels.)

He will be #96.

In other news, goaltender Bob Sewell squashed retirement rumors and is currently training for the upcoming season.

2006 Roller Stats and Results

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Date Result W/L/T
4/19/2006 Squirrels 8, Storm 1 W
4/25/2006 Squirrels 11, Storm 1 W
5/4/2006 Mors Ab Alto 3, Squirrels 1 L
5/11/2006 5-Holes 4, Squirrels 0 L
5/12/2006 Snipe 5, Squirrels 4 L
8/18/2006 Squirrels 4, Bullhawks 1 W
5/26/2006 Squirrels 8, Mors ab Alto 1 W
5/30/2006 Silver Spring 4, Squirrels 1 W
6/6/2006 Squirrels 7, Enigma 2 W
6/15/2006 Squirrels 8, Storm 0 W
6/21/2006 Squirrels 6, Chupacabras 5 W
6/26/2006 Squirrels 4, 5-Holes 3 W
7/12/2006 Squirrels 4, Chupacabras 3 W
7/19/2006 Squirrels 7, Bullhawks 6 W
7/28/2006 Snipe 5, Squirrels 3 L
8/3/2006 Squirrels 6, Silver Spring 4 W
8/10/2006 Squirrels 2, Enigma 2 T
8/11/2006 Squirrels 4, Silver Spring 1 W
8/16/2006 Squirrels 7, Mors ab Alto 1 W
8/24/2006 Squirrels 13, Bullhawks 3 W
8/29/2006 Playoffs: Enigma 1, Squirrels 0 L

Scoring

Playoffs G A* Playoff Goals
Jeff Ford 21 3 0
Ben Sumner 17 8 0
Robert Myers 11 1 3
Kit Watson 10 1
Juan Canchasto 6 0
Ed Bager 6 2 0
Jon Magi 4 2
Phil Van der Vossen 3 3
Matt Borlik 3 1
Chi Pham 3 4 1
Desmond Richelsen 3 5 0
Don Marks 3 1 0
Chris Long 3 0
Tony Richelsen 2 3 2

*Full assist data was lost but counted when included in game reports.

Playoffs: Enigma 1, Squirrels 0

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Three seconds remained in the game. With the Squirrels goaltender pulled and an extra skater on the rink, defender Kit Watson took a slap shot from just inside the center line. Through several screens, Enigma’s goaltender saved it – and the game – and the Squirrels lost their first playoff game in two years, 1-0, on Monday.

The game was bound to be low-scoring. The Squirrels and Enigma were one-two in defense, and had similar offensive numbers. They both finished the regular season with 27 points, though the Squirrels won the tiebreaker. The Squirrels clobbered Enigma, 7-1, earlier in the season, but a 2-2 game a couple of weeks ago made it clear that the teams were pretty much even down the stretch. And only a fluky goal would be the difference in a playoff game.

At 13:54 of the second period, a turnover, a shot off the post, a bad bounce, and a knuckler shot went past Squirrels goaltender Bob Sewell, and that was it. The Squirrels managed 21 shots while Enigma posted 19.

Enigma advances to Thursday’s finals against the winner of the 5 Holes-Snipe match, which already had four-times as many goals scored in the first half than the Squirrels-Enigma game.

The Squirrels played without Don Marks, Juan Canchasto and Matt Borlik.

Despite the loss, the Squirrels still gathered – as they usually do – at Barbeque Wings & Beer in Cloverly, showing no shame in a loss after posting a 14-6-1 record, a second-place regular season finish, and the best defense and goaltending in the division. The Squirrels will now turn their attention to ice, where they will attempt to defend their championship in the winter’s C league.