August 1, 2010

WCRHL White Brings Home the Gold!

The WCRHL White team had a straight path to the final, as they were the #1 seed after round robin. GPCIHL and ECRHA were set to meet at 9:00am on Sunday morning. The GPCIHL won that game 1-0 by forfeit and set the stage for a WCRHL-GPCIHL rematch. If you recall, the two teams met in round robin and skated to a 2-2 tie with 8 different players getting 1 point in the game.

Below is the game recap courtesy of www.NARCh.com:

"Our NCRHA championship game featured the Western Collegiate Roller Hockey League White and Great Plains Collegiate Inline Hockey league would do battle for the NARCh 2010 championship.

The first half saw WCRHL white jump out to a 2 - 0 lead on goals by William Heinze and Tyler Koressel. GPCIHL would answer back as Brent Propp would score late in second half to make it a 2 - 1 game.

The puck dropped for the second half and Salman Shah would score, to tie the game at two apiece. Both teams would trade possession and shots on goals as GPCIHL's Dave Thomas and WCRHL white's Clay Taylor would meet the pressure coming up huge to make the save. With less than four minutes to play, WCRHL's Alex Dodt would light the lamp with the game winner which would stand up under the pressure of the GPCIHL's attack as they pulled their goaltender and tried to tie the game. A shot was taken by a GPCIHL player as a deflection which went on net and the WCRHL's Clay Taylor had to come up huge to preserve the win.

Congratulations to WCRHL white, our 2010 NCRHA NARCh 2010 Finals champions!"

This marks the 4th champion we have had in the 4 years that we have done this division. Past winners include GPCIHL (2007), ECRHA (2008), and MCRHL (2009).