Miller scores a hat trick in Kings victory while the Queens shutout the Rattlers
Medicine Hat and Red Deer, October 27, 2023 – The Red Deer Polytechnic Kings and Queens both came up with victories on Friday night with the Kings scoring seven unanswered goals to defeat the Portage College Voyageurs. The Queens shutout the Medicine Hat Rattlers 5-0.
See below for more information regarding each game.
Women's Hockey – Medicine Hat College Rattlers 0 at Queens 5
Forward Alli Soyko (Bachelor of Education) would open the scoring in the Queens inaugural game against the Medicine Hat College Rattlers with a beautiful snipe over the goaltenders blocker.
In the second period, the Queens would take advantage of a powerplay opportunity as a shot from Kyla Hansel was deflected by teammate Camryn Ward (Bachelor of Kinesiology) to put Red Deer up 2-0.
Off a shot from defence Jessica Bouffard (Business Diploma), forward Victoria Longley (Open Studies) would pounce on the rebound in front of the net and fire it home for her first ACAC goal. Forward Arilyn Toews (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) picked up her second assist on the season on the goal.
The Queens would tack on two more goals in the third period to defeat the Rattlers 5-0. On these two goals, forward Chloe Belter (Bachelor of Education) and defence Annalisa Trieber (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) would pick up their first ACAC point on Hansels second goal of the season.
Forward Molly Flynn (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) was awarded the player of the game.
These two teams will be back at it tomorrow with a 1:15 pm puck drop.
Men's Hockey – Portage College Voyageurs 1 at Kings 7
After scoring the opening goal of the game, the Portage College Voyageurs would allow the Red Deer Polytechnic Kings to score seven consecutive goals on their way to a 7-1 victory in Friday night hockey action.
In the first of two games in Red Deer, the Voyageurs would open up the game with a powerplay goal from forward Shaye Sommerfeld (University Transfer) three minutes into the game. Sommerfeld was later named the Voyageurs player of the game.
This would be the only goal of the opening period with Voyageurs outshooting the Kings 13-9.
Twenty-five seconds into the second period, forward Erik Miller (Bachelor of Business Administration) scored his first of three goals in the game to tie the game up at one. Miller would add an assist on forward Nolan Doell's (Bachelor of Education) powerplay goal to make it a four-point night. The Bachelor of Business Administration student-athlete was later named the player of the game for the Kings.
On top of the Doell goal and the Miller hat trick, the Kings would add three more to defeat the Voyageurs 7-1. This includes a short-handed goal from forward Holden Knights (Business Certificate) in the third period.
Head Coach Trevor Keeper explained the team has been working hard in practice and now it's finally showing on the scoresheet.
"We have been working on a lot of things in practice in terms of being able to put pucks deeper into the offensive zone. We are moving the puck well in all directions. We did not do that in the first period and that was why we were down 1-0. We turned over the puck a few times which is something we addressed in the locker room in the intermission which led to many goals tonight."
At the end of the game and with a 20-shot second period, the Kings outshot the Voyageurs 38-27 with goaltender Kristian Lyon steering aside 26 shots for his first win of the season.
These two teams will go head-to-head tomorrow afternoon with the puck dropping at 1 pm in Red Deer.