Old Dawgs Win Again, 6-2

With six games played in the winter SDOHL campaign, it's looking more and more like a two team race for the regular season championship. And last Thursday night, the Old Dawgs stayed a fragile point ahead of Touchstone Imaging by hammering the Over 40's, 6-2.

Old Dawgs captain Marty Richardson celebrated his return from his convention of the Financial Advisors Guild (F.A.G.) by scoring his third and fourth goals of the season. After piling up a ton of early season assists, Dan Cashman finally lit the lamp with his first of the year, while recent addition Rand Peterson also opened his account with his first.

But the real story was former University of Colorado quarterback Mike Freeman. With his family and friends from the frozen tundra of North Dakota in the audience, Freeman rose to the occasion and banged in two goals. It was the first multi-goal game of Freeman's young hockey career, and completely eclipsed every one of his achievments as a college football player.


Freeman

Old Dawgs goalie Al Sterner returned from a groin injury just in time to be mediocre, but his teammates scored plenty of goals in helping him to his fourth win of the season.


Wow-hardly any net showing at all. Glove might work better actually open...

The game was only 35 seconds old when Freeman scored his first goal, taking a nice feed from Cashman, who picked up his SDOHL leading sixth assist. But the Over 40's equalized six minutes later, when Wayne Faust took a clean face off win by John Ling, and fired a wrister past Sterner.

The Old Dawgs hit the front once again just 1:15 into the second period, when Dan Cashman got his long awaited first goal of the winter season. He received a pass from substitute Frenchman Bern Levesque, skated in front of the net, and tucked the puck just inside the goalpost.


Cashman

The Dawgs doubled their lead six minutes later, when Marty Richardson converted a Jimmy Tiernan pass into his third of the year. But the Over 40's came right back at the ten minute mark, when Jay Scolnick found himself wide open with the puck in front of the net. He took his time, made a quick move to his left, then slid the puck under Sterner's outstretched goal stick and into the net.

Freeman made the lead more comfortable right before the end of the middle frame, when he got his second of the game. The two goals made his wife very proud, because even though she had been to many of the previous games in his athletic career, this was the first time he had actually made it off the bench and played.

The Old Dawgs put the game out of reach midway in the third, when Richardson took a great pass from behind the net by Eddie Cribbs, and converted a beauty into the top corner past Over 40's goalie Alan Callison. Rand Peterson finished the Dawgs scoring right near the end, making a great individual effort, and beating Callison for his first of the season.

The Dawgs now have a tough one coming up before the Thanksgiving break, when they take on a very good  Touchstone Imaging team. Touchstone leads the SDOHL in scoring by a wide margin, and should give goalie Al Sterner and his tender groin a workout. Game time is 9:55.

In other Old Dawgs news:

Old Dawgs forward/defenseman Eddie Cribbs might want to take a different approach in his quest to meet women.


Subtle...

Defensemen Greg Clinard and Jimmy Tiernan showed this week that they are more than just partners during the game.


Geez, Jimmy, you can't wait for the locker room?

This week, after their final little league soccer match, Old Dawgs captain Marty Richardson went out and got drunk with his daughter Alexi. They paid a severe price the next morning.


At least Alexi has her Scooby Doo ice bag. Bitchin' hair, Cap.

Old Dawgs forward Mike Sullivan joined in this week at the Occupy Denver demonstration. Unfortunately, he got a little confused, and thought he was at a rally to re-elect President Eisenhower.


It's starting to slip away, isn't it Sully...