Grand Beach Beer Bellies 7, Apocalypse Now 3

Valley Gardens   January 16, 2011: Sponge hockey rivals, Apocalypse Now and Grand Beach Beer Bellies met for the 20th time (including 2 play-off games) in their long and storied histories. The rivalry has cooled slightly as they haven’t met in 4 years but things picked up right where they left off.  The Beer Bellies dominated early on a snow-covered ice surface and cruised to a 7-3 win on Sunday afternoon.  “All we had to do was shoot,” Jeff Wrobleski said, “The Smokin’ Goalie didn’t even have a goalie stick.” Slap Shots:  In 18 regular season games, Apocalypse now has outscored the Beer Bellies, 100 – 96. …the first time they met was in the 1995-96 season and Apocalypse Now was routed 12-1.  Patrick Nikolaus was in goal for all 12 goals against…Notes: Bryan Finney scored his first goal of the season… Tristan Carlson was out with the flu…watch the VIDEO HIGHLITES here.


Final Box

 

1st Half

2nd Half

Total

Grand Beach

4

3

7

Apocalypse Now

1

2

3


Scoring Summary

First Half
Finney 1
(J. Moore)

Pen: None


Second Half

Fiks 5 (R. Moore)

Fiks 6 (Nikolaus)

Pen: None

 

Goalies: Jim Heim 3-4-0

Skaters

Goals

Assists

Jason Allard

0

0

Guy Sever

0

0

Bryan Wiebe

0

0

Jeff Wrobleski

0

0

Patrick Nikolaus

0

1

Bryan Finney

1

0

Rob Moore

0

1

Jim Moore

0

1

Myron Fiks

2

0