Saturday, September 22, 2007

Good start to the weekend

I enjoyed last night's tilt between the U of R Rams and the UBC Thunderbirds at Mosaic Stadium. The Rams spotted the T-Birds a 21-3 lead, before roaring back to claim a 55-28 victory. Regina's Teale Orban is a fantastic quarterback. If his receivers could hang onto the ball, he would've passed for 500-600 yards last night. Despite a couple of drops, 2nd year receiver Jordan Sisco had a big night, scoring two receiving touchdowns, and another one on the ground. Sisco, in my opinion, is a slightly smaller - but faster - version of Jason Clermont. Seriously, the kid can play. The highlight of the night had to be Riders G.M. Eric Tillman taking a ride on the back of a Harley to celebrate the Rams final touchdown of the night. ET the Easy Rider! Whoops, that could be taken several ways :)

The Pats opened the WHL season with a 4-2 win in Prince Albert. However, import forward Kaspars Sauletis was lost for up to 3 months with a badly separated shoulder. That leaves the Pats braintrust with some tough decisions to make.

This afternoon, I'll pick up young Jacob and catch the Riders and B.C. Lions at Mosaic. Hopefully Austin's crew will snap out of their two-game tailspin in front of a sold-out stadium, and reclaim first place in the West.

Then tomorrow, it's off to the Brandt Centre in the afternoon for the Pats home opener. Anyone wanna rake some leaves for me? Regina is serving up a sports smorgasbord this weekend, and I just don't have the time!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great weekend so far. It would be sweet if we could run the table!

Yes - a real tough break with Salty. Being big, a 20 yr old, euro and projected 30 goal man. Wow that really hurts. This team has the makings of something good and thats what we are all hoping for. I think they are going to have to move to shore up that loss. I like your idea of a big bruising 20 yr old coming in. I don't know where he might come from but I am sure there is a character guy out there. Maybe even from the OHL or Q if need be. If Stoez were to come back as well, bigger bonus. When guys like Jeff Crawford rode shotgun for Derkatch he did pretty well. Eberle, Strueby and Cerveny might benefit as well. You can never have too much character or toughness. Have a good weekend!