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SANTA CLARA BLACKHAWKS	INLAND VALLEY WILD	SAN DIEGO GULLS	GRAND FORKS B.C. TITANS

 

5th Annual Thanksgiving Celebration

GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	GFA	GAA
4	4	0	0	8	19	4	4.75	1.00

 

Date	Time	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result
26-Nov-04	9:00 PM	Thanksgiving Celebration		Grand Forks	W, 8-2
27-Nov-04	9:15 AM	Thanksgiving Celebration		Inland Valley	W, 1-0
27-Nov-04	3:15 PM	Thanksgiving Celebration		@ San Diego	W, 6-0
28-Nov-04	1:30 PM	Thanksgiving Celebration		Inland Valley	W, 4-2

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Quick Start Propels Hawks to Championship
November 28, 2004

After going wire to wire with the Inland Valley Wild in a 1-0 squeaker yesterday, the Santa Clara Blackhawks A1 squad came out on fire in today's championship game, scoring three goals in the first 5:16, on their way to a 4-2 victory.  The Blackhawks dominated this contest, limiting the Wild to just eleven shots, seven of which did not come until the final period.  For the tournament, Santa Clara limited opponents to just 39 shots in four games, while firing 125 shots of their own.  In today's championship tilt, Phillip Wong, Mitch Venosta, Nick Costa and Patrick Castagna did the scoring, with Kyle Nunn bagging three assists, and Wong, Costa and Kyle Yedlicka also contributing helpers. Devon Luna was sharp between the pipes, limiting Wild to just two goals, including one which came with Inland Valley's goaltender pulled for a six-on-three power play with just 55 seconds left in the contest.

Santa Clara wasted little time getting the jump on Inland Valley, taking a 1-0 lead at 10:32 of the opening period.  Kyle Nunn started the play with a feed to Phillip Wong at the Wild blueline.  Wong moved into the zone and dropped a pass for for the trailing Nunn, who fired a shot that the goaltender blocked with his paddle.  The puck popped up in the air and after it landed and bounced around, it was Phillip Wong who found it first, ripping the rebound into the netting.  The Hawks then extended their lead on a power play goal at 8:13 that came after some excellent puck movement between the forwards and defensemen in the Inland Valley zone.  The goal was scored by Mitch Venosta after Kyle Nunn sent a pass behind the net to Kyle Yedlicka. Yedlicka moved out front and fired a shot on goal that produced a rebound to the other side where Venosta was camped. Venosta pounced on the rebound and pounded it home.  At 7:30, Santa Clara nearly made it 3-0, but the Wild netminder made a sprawling save to rob Patrick Castagna on a breakaway.  The Blackhawks came right back however, bagging their third goal at 6:44.  Taking a draw in the Inland Valley zone, Phillip Wong won it over to Nick Costa, who then dumped it in behind the net.  The loose biscuit got poked toward the corner by a Wild skater and Costa rushed over to grab it.  Costa fired the puck toward the net from the corner and slightly behind the goal line, and his pass turned into a shot when it deflected off the goaltender and into the net.  Inland Valley suddenly found themselves being outshot by a 10-1 margin and on the short end of a 3-0 score.  They switched netminders at that point and the change helped to stem the bleeding.  But the Hawks still had plenty of good hockey left in them, particularly on the defensive end.  Santa Clara was whistled for minor penalties at 4:13 and 3:24, giving Inland Valley 1:11 of five-on-three time.  The two-man Wild advantage was stopped cold by the defensive tandem of Shaun Pienkos and Derek Fredericks, joined by forward Patrick Castagna who was later spelled by Eric Fruen.  Devon Luna came up with a solid rejection 2:55 and then a glove save that he snared and held at 2:41.  Fruen won the ensuing face-off to Fredericks, who iced the puck, buying enough time to get a fourth Hawks skater on the ice.  The first period ended with the Hawks in control, 3-0.

Santa Clara continued to dominate play in the second stanza.  Although they did not score until the final minute, they outshot Inland Valley 11-0 in the period.  They scored after once again demonstrating good puck movement on the power play.  After a Derek Fredericks slapshot was redirected on net by Patrick Castagna, the rebound came out to Nick Costa, who fired a follow-up shot on goal that was also stopped.  An Inland Valley skater tried to ice the puck, but Kevin O'Brien made a nice play to hold the zone and kick the biscuit back into Costa, who then fed Kyle Nunn behind the net. Nunn moved to the other side and towards the corner before passing back behind the net to Castagna. Castagna moved out front and zipped an angle shot to the wide side of the net and past the goaltender for the score.  Nunn and Costa notched the assists, and for Nunn it capped a three-assist, playmaker performance.  That made it 4-0 at 0:55, a lead that the Hawks held into the third period.

Inland Valley tallied twice in the final six minutes to make the score respectable.  After a rare Blackhawks giveaway at 5:55, Devon Luna made a great initial save on an open shot in front.  The rebound was pounced on and fired into the net, with Luna doing the splits and nearly making the highlight-reel save.  Santa Clara then found themselves two men short for the second time in the game when they committed minor penalties at 2:49 and 2:14.  Inland Valley pulled their goaltender for the extra attacker, giving themselves a six-on-three advantage.  Despite the odds, the Hawks killed 1:19 of the 1:25 three-man advantage.  But the Wild finally converted at 0:55.  The Hawks successfully killed the balance of the remaining power play, with Luna coming up a little shy in his effort to bag a goaltender's empty-net goal, and the team skated off with the 4-2 win and the tournament championship.

The Hawks return to NORCAL action next Saturday, traveling to Oakland to meet the first-place Bears.  Santa Clara figures to be short two players who are serving suspensions, but they are hopeful that defenseman Chase Brevoort will be given the green light to return to action after suffering an injury in preseason play.

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BLACKHAWKS - 4,  Inland Valley, 2

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BOX SCORE

TEAMS	1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Inland Valley	0	0	2	2
Blackhawks	3	1	0	4

Scoring Summary

First Period
Scoring:  1, Blackhawks, Wong 3 (Nunn), 10:32.  2, Blackhawks, Venosta 1 (Yedlicka, Nunn), 8:13 (pp).  3, Blackhawks, Costa 2 (Wong), 6:44.  Penalties:  Champlin, Inland Valley (holding), 8:57;  O'Brien, Santa Clara (roughing), 4:13;  Holt, Santa Clara (hooking), 3:24.

Second Period
Scoring:  4, Blackhawks, Castagna 7 (Nunn, Costa), 0:53 (pp).  Penalties:  Fruen, Santa Clara (roughing), 8:31;  Ethell, Inland Valley (slashing), 6:36;  Aamudt, Inland Valley (crosscheck), 1:24.

Third Period
Scoring:  5, Inland Valley, Vuisard (Uyama, Olson), 5:49.  6, Inland Valley, Hodge (Ethell, Kissen), 0:55 (pp).  Penalties:  Hodge, Inland Valley (elbowing), 11:02;  Costa, Santa Clara (crosscheck), 9:35;  Yedlicka, Santa Clara (hooking), 2:49;  O'Brien, Santa Clara (minor, crosscheck & game misconduct), 2:14;  Yedlicka, Santa Clara (interference), 0:09.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Inland Valley	4	0	7	--11
Santa Clara	12	11	10	--33

Power-play Conversions:  Santa Clara - 2 of 4;  Inland Valley - 1 of 7.  Goalies:  Santa Clara, Luna (11 shots, 9 saves; record 2-0-0).  Inland Valley, McAulay (10 shots, 7 saves) and Frederick at 6:44 of first period (23 shots, 22 saves).

Plus/Minus:  +2(Nunn, Wong, Costa);  +1(Fredericks, O'Brien);  even(Holt, Pienkos, Kiernan, Fruen);  -1(Castagna, Venosta, Yedlicka); DNP(Brevoort, Baxley, Draper, Hernandez, Scarbrough).

Hits:  3(O'Brien); 2(Holt, Wong); 1(Castagna, Nunn, Pienkos, Fredericks, Yedlicka).

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Three Stars Of the Game

Mitch Venosta - Good work on the power play to score a rebound goal and give Hawks an early 2-0 lead.

Kyle Nunn - Recorded a playmaker, assisting on 3 of the team's 4 goals - 3 points and a plus/minus of +2.

Phillip Wong - Got Hawks on the board with a heads-up play in front - 2 points & a plus/minus of +2.

Hawks Make Bird Droppings of Gulls, 6-0
November 27, 2004

The Santa Clara Blackhawks swept their way to the Championship game of the 5th Annual Thanksgiving Celebration tournament with a convincing, 6-0 win over the San Diego Gulls on Saturday afternoon.  Patrick Castagna and Eric Fruen continued their blistering tournament play with two goals apiece, while Kyle Nunn and Kevin O'Brien each chipped in with their first goals of the tournament, leading the Hawks to victory.  All told, nine Blackhawks players registered points in this contest.  Defensively, Santa Clara clamped down for their second consecutive shutout, with Willie Matthews stopping eight shots to earn his second win of the tournament.

After a sluggish opening shift, Santa Clara got untracked to register two goals in a twelve second span.  With the puck in the Gulls' defensive zone, Kyle Nunn tied up two defenders along the side boards.  Nick Costa hustled from the opposite boards to dig loose the puck and move out toward the blueline.  Costa then sent a no-look, backhand pass back to Nunn, who had shaken his defenders.  Nunn moved in and rifled a top-shelf wristrocket past the netminder for the score.  Costa picked up a well-deserved assist on the play.  On the next face-off, the Gulls won it, but then dumped the puck into the Hawks' zone where Dustin Holt tipped it back out of the zone along the boards.  Eric Fruen poked it ahead toward center where Patrick Castagna gathered it in and moved into the zone, splitting two defenders. San Diego's goaltender game out of the crease in an attempt to poke loose the puck, but Castagna used him, slipping around the poke-check & dropping the puck into a wide-open net to make it 2-0.  Goaltender Willie Matthews faced only three first-period shots, but he came up with a big save when a Gulls skater found some space inside at 6:12.  Santa Clara was then whistled for minor penalties at 4:59 and 4:08, giving the Gulls 1:09 of five-on-three time.  But the Blackhawks killed it, with Matthews coming up with a nice glovehand snatch at 3:20.  Santa Clara then earned a power play opportunity at 1:31 and it took the power play unit just four seconds to score.  Patrick Castagna won a faceoff over to Kyle Yedlicka, who immediately sent a drop pass back to Kevin O'Brien.  O'Brien loaded up a slapshot and let it fly.  With Mitch Venosta battling a defender in front of the net, O'Brien's shot caught the defenseman's stick and deflected past the goaltender and into the net, giving the Hawks a 3-0 lead that they held for the balance of the period.

Santa Clara opened the second period on another power play after San Diego picked up a minor penalty at 0:27 of the opening stanza.  The Hawks came out strong on the power play, generating five shots, but none found the mark and the Gulls escaped further damage for the moment.  At 6:27, Willie Matthews came up huge on a short, two-on-one.  The Blackhawks then extended their lead on yet another goal that was a direct result of a clean face-off win.  This time it was Kyle Nunn winning the draw and Eric Fruen who cashed in.  Fruen took the face-off win from Nunn and moved inside the left circle before launching a laser-guided shot top-shelf, stick-side.  Santa Clara made it 5-0 on Patrick Castagna's second goal of the contest, at 1:14.  Derek Fredericks started the play with a solid hit behind his own net to jar loose a puck from a Gulls skater.  Fredericks then passed to Phillip Wong at the side boards and Wong fed the biscuit ahead to Castagna.  Castagna raced in, outmuscled a pestering defender, and slid across the crease before slipping a shot between the pipes for the score.

With a five-goal lead, the third period was played with a running clock.  The Blackhawks still managed to generate another twelve shots, giving them thirty-six for the game.  San Diego only collected a single shot, but they came very close to ruining Matthews' shutout during a sequence at 9:17.  With a loose puck rolling into the Hawks' zone, Matthews moved out to play it in an effort to stop a potential breakaway.  Matthews was successful, but the puck did not clear the zone and Matthews was left naked, far outside the crease.  A San Diego player grabbed control and sent a shot toward the open net, but Derek Fredericks alertly stepped in front of it and deflected the shot out of play.  That was the Gulls' best scoring chance, but it was thwarted and Santa Clara soon added the final goal of the contest.  With the Blackhawks on an abbreviated power play, a San Diego skater grabbed the puck in the Gulls' zone and attempted to swing it around the boards and out of the zone.  Dustin Holt blocked the clearing attempt with his skate and Patrick Castagna grabbed it and passed up to Eric Fruen.  Fruen moved inside the left faceoff dot and sent another stick-side, top shelf slingshot past the befuddled backstop for the score.  It was Fruen's second goal, Holt's second assist, and Castagna's fourth point of the contest.

The Blackhawks move to tomorrow's championship game, and will face the winner of tonight's contest between the Inland Valley Wild and the Grand Forks Titans.

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BLACKHAWKS - 6,  San Diego, 0

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BOX SCORE

TEAMS	1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Blackhawks	3	2	1	6
San Diego	0	0	0	0

Scoring Summary

First Period
Scoring:  1, Blackhawks, Nunn 1 (Costa), 9:37.  2, Blackhawks, Castagna 4 (Fruen, Holt), 9:25.  3, Blackhawks, O'Brien 1 (Yedlicka, Castagna), 1:27 (pp).  Penalties:  O'Brien, Santa Clara (interference), 4:59;  Castagna, Santa Clara (high-sticking), 4:08;  Gecik, San Diego (holding), 1:31;  San Diego bench minor (too many men), 0:27.

Second Period
Scoring:  4, Blackhawks, Fruen 3 (Nunn), 3:51.  5, Blackhawks, Castagna 5 (Wong, Fredericks), 1:14.  Penalties:  None.

Third Period
Scoring:  6, Blackhawks, Fruen 4 (Castagna, Holt), 3:40 (pp).  Penalties:  Brown, San Diego (hooking), 10:00;  Costa, Santa Clara (hooking), 10:00;  Yedlicka, Santa Clara (hooking), 6:10;  Carew, San Diego (interference), 5:26.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Santa Clara	8	16	12	--36
San Diego	3	4	1	-- 8

Power-play Conversions:  Santa Clara - 2 of 3;  San Diego - 0 of 3.  Goalies:  Santa Clara, Matthews (8 shots, 8 saves; record 2-0-0).  San Diego, Schott (36 shots, 30 saves).

Plus/Minus:  +3(Holt, Pienkos); +2(Castagna, Nunn, Kiernan, Wong, Fruen, Costa); +1(Fredericks, O'Brien); even(Yedlicka, Venosta);  DNP(Brevoort, Baxley, Draper, Hernandez, Scarbrough).

Hits:  2(O'Brien); 1(Holt, Yedlicka, Fredericks, Pienkos).

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Three Stars Of the Game

Kyle Nunn - Got Hawks started with a first-period sniper shot.  1 goal, 1 assist and a plus/minus of +2.

Kevin O'Brien - Fired eight shots on goal including one that hit the mark.  1 goal and a plus/minus of +1.

Willie Matthews - Not a lot of work, but a couple of strong saves en route to his eight-save shutout.

Defensive Battle Goes Hawks' Way, 1-0
November 27, 2004

After exposing a porous Grand Forks defense the night before, Santa Clara faced off against a disciplined, Inland Valley Wild squad in their second game of the 5th Annual Thanksgiving Celebration Tournament in San Diego.  The Blackhawks responded with a stingy defensive game of their own, allowing only fourteen shots in blanking the Wild, 1-0.  Goaltender Devon Luna made Eric Fruen's second period goal stand up by stopping all fourteen shots, including some good scoring chances in the second and third periods.  The win pretty much clinches a spot in tomorrow's Championship game for the Blackhawks, and their likely opponent will be the Inland Valley Wild, assuming that they can get past the Grand Forks Titans in a match-up later this afternoon.

Both teams played a tight defensive game in the first period.  Santa Clara allowed just one soft shot, while getting seven shots on goal of their own.  The Blackhawks were unable to convert on any of their three power plays in the period, which included 1:24 of five-on-three time.  The Hawks struggled on the power play, and the team's passing was off-the-mark for much of the period.

Santa Clara came out strong in the second period, and the ice began to tilt decidedly in the Hawks' favor.  The first one-third of the period was played almost exclusively in the Wild's defensive zone.  The constant pressure was a likely factor when the Hawks struck for the game's only goal at 6:19.  An Inland Valley skater gained control of the puck in his own zone.  In an effort to move the biscuit, he swung the puck around the boards. Eric Fruen moved in and grabbed the puck along the left boards.  Fruen walked in a few steps and fired a hard slapshot that whistled past the netminder and lit the lamp to make it 1-0.  At 4:13, Santa Clara nearly extended their lead when Patrick Castagna executed the toe-drag move to perfection, slipping past a defender for a shorthanded breakaway.  But Inland Valley's goalkeep made a nice save, robbing yesterday's star of the game.  Inland Valley then raced the other way and delivered a good shot on goal and then a follow-up shot at 4:03.  But Devon Luna stood his ground, delivering a solid pad save on the first shot and then stopping and covering the rebound chance.  Santa Clara killed the balance of the penalty with some solid forechecking work from Nick Costa.  The period ended with the Hawks clinging to their 1-0 lead.

Offensively, the Blackhawks continued to improve as the game wore on.  The team delivered ten shots on goal in the final period, including a series of one-two punches.  But the knockout blow never came.  At 7:35, Dustin Holt fired a slapshot on goal and Mitch Venosta followed with a nice shot off the rebound, but both attempts were kicked aside.  Kyle Yedlicka and Venosta followed with one-two scoring chances at 7:26, but they too were foiled.  Finally, Shaun Pienkos and Patrick Castagna delivered shots at the Wild netminder, but once again the goalkeep was up to the task, rejecting each scoring chance.  At 3:54, Inland Valley earned their second and final power play of the game, giving them a great opportunity to score the equalizer.  The penalty-kill unit of Patrick Castagna, Kyle Nunn, Derek Fredericks and Kevin O'Brien stepped on the ice and took control of the situation.  Castagna applied constant pressure in the Wild defensive zone and Fredericks ate up precious power play time with good work along the boards to tie-up the puck, and then delivered a critical icing play to wipe out the last remaining seconds of four-on-five hockey.  But the Wild were not finished yet.  They pulled their goaltender with about 45 seconds to play and Santa Clara missed two opportunities at an open net, the second of which brought a face-off back into the Hawks' zone with four seconds to play.  The Wild won the critical face-off and delivered a solid shot on goal that Devon Luna rejected.  Then, with a ice full of bodies in front of the net, the final buzzer sounded about one full second before Inland Valley finally found the net.  But it was one tick too late and the Blackhawks skated off with a gritty, 1-0 win.

Santa Clara next meets the San Diego Gulls in a contest later this afternoon.  San Diego was on the short end of a 4-2 score in their meeting with Grand Forks today.  They enter the game against Santa Clara with an 0-2-0 tournament.

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BLACKHAWKS - 1,  Inland Valley, 0

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BOX SCORE

TEAMS	1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Inland Valley	0	0	0	0
Blackhawks	0	1	0	1

Scoring Summary

First Period
Scoring:  None. Penalties:  Fruen, Santa Clara (slashing), 8:50;  Voisard, Inland Valley (headcheck), 8:07;  Ethell, Inland Valley (crosscheck), 7:30;  Dunstand, Inland Valley (interference), 4:35.

Second Period
Scoring:  1, Blackhawks, Fruen 1 (unassisted), 6:19.  Penalties:  Olson, Inland Valley (elbowing), 9:34;  Nunn, Santa Clara (tripping), 5:07.

Third Period
Scoring:  None. Penalties:  Holt, Santa Clara (roughing), 4:29;  Voisard, Inland Valley (roughing), 4:29;  Yedlicka, Santa Clara (tripping), 3:54.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Inland Valley	1	7	6	--14
Santa Clara	7	8	10	--25

Power-play Conversions:  Santa Clara - 0 of 4;  Inland Valley - 0 of 2.  Goalies:  Santa Clara, Luna (14 shots, 13 saves; record 1-0-0).  Inland Valley, McAulay (25 shots, 24 saves).

Plus/Minus:  +1(Fruen, Wong, Costa, Fredericks, O'Brien);  even(Holt, Pienkos, Yedlicka, Venosta, Kiernan, Nunn, Castagna);  DNP(Brevoort, Baxley, Draper, Hernandez, Scarbrough).

Hits:  4(O'Brien); 2(Wong); 1(Castagna, Nunn, Pienkos).

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Three Stars Of the Game

Devon Luna - Tamed the Wild in a nailbiter, stopping all 14 shots he faced including one at the buzzer.

Eric Fruen - Picked up where he left off, ripping a slapper home to score the only goal of the game.

Derek Fredericks - Led a strong defensive performance with stellar work on the penalty kill.

Hawks Stick a Grand Fork in Grand Forks, 8-2
November 26, 2004

Teams from north of the border offer California hockey players a chance to prove themselves against players from a country where hockey is the national sport.  The Santa Clara Blackhawks managed to prove themselves time and time again in their 8-2 drubbing of the Grand Forks (British Columbia) Titans on Friday.  The Titans were clearly overmatched in this contest and the Blackhawks spent much of the game making up for the rare shutout they suffered last weekend at the hands of the Fresno Jr. Falcons.  With four goals and two assists, Captain Patrick Castagna did his part to not only make up for the shutout but to make up for having to sit out that game.  Phillip Wong added two goal for the Blackhawks, with lone goals coming from Nick Costa and Eric Fruen.

Santa Clara jumped on the Titans with four first period goals, including a hat trick from Patrick Castagna.  Castagna got the Hawks on the board at 5:57 on a nice, no-look backhand shot from just inside the right face-off circle.  Eric Fruen and Billy Kiernan notched the assists. Castagna's domination of face-offs (he won 18 of 21 on the day) led directly to two Blackhawks goals, including their next score, a power play tally at 4:55.  Taking a draw in the Titans' end, Castagna won the face-off over to Nick Costa who was on the right wing.  Costa passed the puck back to the middle where Castagna grabbed it and then zipped it past the frozen netminder to make it 2-0.  Twenty-eight seconds later it was 3-0.  Grabbing a loose puck behind his own net, defenseman Derek Fredericks swept it around the boards where it was collected by Patrick Castagna near center ice.  Castagna moved into the Titans zone and let loose a hard, low laser shot that the goalie slowed but did not stop.  The puck trickled through his pads and came to a rest on the line, just inside the right post.  Nick Costa, who had raced down the ice as well, swept around the net and jammed it home for the score.  Grand Forks narrowed the gap to 4-1 on a nice shot at 4:01, but the Patrick Castagna-led Blackhawks added one more themselves, at 1:58, to extend their lead to 4-1.  The play was started by a crisp pass from Kyle Yedlicka to Phillip Wong at center ice.  Wong sent a one-touch pass over to Castagna at the redline and Castagna schooled the lone defender, getting around him for a short breakaway. Castagna then undressed the hapless goaltender, going top shelf with the backhander.

It was a tough game for goaltender Willie Matthews in that he did not face enough rubber to develop any rhythm in the game.  Facing only six shots, the Hawks' backstop never broke a sweat.  Matthews did make a nice glovehand snatch at 9:54 of the second period, but that was only the fourth shot he had faced up to that point.  Grand Forks went on a power play at 8:58, and they managed to score their second goal of the game on a hard slapshot that slipped through Matthews.  It would be the last score for the Titans, while the Blackhawks still had plenty of fuel in the tank.  Patrick Castagna won the next face-off over to Mitch Venosta, who then tipped it back to Castagna as he charged through the slot.  Castagna moved in hard and deposited the in-your-face revenge goal past the netminder just eight seconds after the Titans' tally.  It took a little bit longer for the Hawks to add their sixth goal, nearly a minute-and-a-half, but when it came, it came lightning quick.  With the Titans in possession in the Santa Clara end, Kevin O'Brien poke-checked a puck over to Patrick Castagna. Castagna sent a headman feed to Phillip Wong at center ice and Wong was off to the races, zipping the breakaway shot past the goalie's glovehand for the score.  Santa Clara added one more in the period, at 2:09, to make it 7-2.  Taking an outlet pass from Dustin Holt, Phillip Wong then fed a cross-ice pass to Nick Costa, who was charging into the Grand Forks' zone.  Costa sent the give & go feed back to Wong who was charging the net, and Wong grabbed it in front and buried it for the score.

With a 7-2 lead, the third period was played with a twelve minute running clock.  The period swept by quickly, with the Blackhawks adding one more tally at 5:11.  With the puck in the Hawks' defensive zone, Shaun Pienkos intercepted a shot right in front of the net.  Pienkos sent the puck wide, where Dustin Holt managed to sweep it over to Eric Fruen. Fruen sped up the left wing and raced into the Titans zone before loading up a rocket of a slapshot that sizzled past the netminder for the Hawks' final score.

Santa Clara will be right back on the ice tomorrow morning in a match-up against the Inland Valley Wild.  The Wild defeated the San Diego Gulls by a 5-0 score yesterday, and figure to be the toughest challenge for the Blackhawks in this tournament.  Santa Clara narrowly edged the Wild in a hard-fought, 3-1 contest when these teams met in the End of Summer Hockey Fest back in September.  After facing the Wild in the morning, Santa Clara will return to action in an afternoon tilt against the San Diego Gulls.

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BLACKHAWKS - 8,  Grand Forks, 2

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BOX SCORE

TEAMS	1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Grand Forks	1	1	0	2
Blackhawks	4	3	1	8

Scoring Summary

First Period
Scoring:  1, Blackhawks, Castagna 1 (Fruen, Kiernan), 5:57.  2, Blackhawks, Castagna 2 (Costa), 4:55 (pp).  3, Blackhawks, Costa 1 (Castagna, Fredericks), 4:27.  4, Grand Forks, Sebastian (unassisted), 4:01.  5, Blackhawks, Castagna 3 (Wong, Yedlicka), 1:58.  Penalties:  Freeman, Grand Forks (high-sticking), 10:33;  Wong, Santa Clara (kneeing), 10:10;  Semenoff, Grand Forks (tripping), 5:09.

Second Period
Scoring:  6, Grand Forks, Rose (Powell, Todd), 8:00 (pp).  7, Blackhawks, Castagna 4 (Venosta), 7:52.  8, Blackhawks, Wong 1 (Castagna, O'Brien), 6:24.  9, Blackhawks, Wong 2 (Costa, Holt), 2:09.  Penalties:  Fruen, Santa Clara (headcheck), 8:58;  Sebastian, Grand Forks (slashing), 6:13;  Freeman, Grand Forks (slashing), 0:48.

Third Period
Scoring:  10, Blackhawks, Fruen 1 (Holt, Pienkos), 5:11.  Penalties:  Boruck, Grand Forks (high-sticking), 9:22;  Sebastian, Grand Forks (unsportsmanlike conduct), 5:57;  Costa, Santa Clara (unsportsmanlike conduct), 5:57;  Venosta, Santa Clara (hooking), 3:45;  Devan, Grand Forks (interference), 3:01;  O'Brien, Santa Clara (elbowing), 2:25;  Devan, Grand Forks (tripping), 0:14.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Grand Forks	2	4	2	-- 6
Santa Clara	13	13	5	--31

Power-play Conversions:  Santa Clara - 1 of 6;  Grand Forks - 1 of 5.  Goalies:  Santa Clara, Matthews (6 shots, 4 saves; record 1-0-0).  Grand Forks, Yamaguchi (19 shots, 13 saves) and Hanson (12 shots, 10 saves).

Plus/Minus:  +7(Castagna); +4(Wong); +3(Fredericks, Holt, O'Brien, Pienkos, Yedlicka); +2(Costa); +1(Venosta, Fruen, Kiernan);  -1(Nunn); DNP(Brevoort, Baxley, Draper, Hernandez, Scarbrough).

Hits:  4(O'Brien); 2(Holt); 1(Yedlicka, Castagna, Fredericks).

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Three Stars Of the Game

Patrick Castagna - Scored four of the team's first five goals in a 6-point, +7 dominating performance.

Phillip Wong - Two goal-scorer goals after notching an assist.  3 points and a plus/minus of +4.

Nick Costa - Another second-effort goal for the hard-working Costa  3 points and a plus/minus of +2.

 

Tournament Records

Teams	Record	Points	Place
Santa Clara Blackhawks	4-0-0	8	1st
Inland Valley Wild	1-2-1	3	2nd
GRand Forks BC Titans	1-1-1	3
San Diego Gulls	0-3-0	0

 

Thanksgiving Celebration 
Schedule & Scores

November 25 & 26 Inland Valley -5 San Diego -0 Santa Clara -8 Grand Forks -2

November 27 Santa Clara -1 Inland Valley -0 Grand Forks -4 San Diego -2 Santa Clara -6 San Diego -0 Grand Forks -3 Inland Valley -3

November 28 San Diego @ Grand Forks

 

Thanksgiving Celebration
Championship Game

November 28, 2004 Santa Clara -4 Inland Valley -2

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