The Quesnel River Rush played on Oct. 25, Oct. 26 and Oct. 27, taking hard losses in the first two games.
On Oct. 25, the Rush played against the Fernie Ghostriders and took a 9-1 loss.
The Ghostriders had an unrelenting wave of goal after goal after goal. They scored twice in the first period, four times in the second and one in the third period before the Rush's Tate O'Brien scored the team's only goal. The Ghostriders continued scoring on the Rush with two more goals after the Rush's.
Saturday (Oct. 26) was another big loss for the River Rush taking a 6-3 defeat from the Columbia Valley Rockies.
The Rush and Rockies were in a tight match in the first two periods. The Rockies scored the first goal of the game but the Rush's Gage Parrell scored a few minutes later giving the teams a 1-1 tie going into the second period.
Parrell followed that with another goal a minute into the second period, the Rockies swiftly responded with a goal of their own. The Rush's Dane Dietz got the team's third goal of the game, but the Rush didn't find the net after that. The Rockies scored another two goals in the second period, giving the Rockies a 4-3 lead, which they grew with another two goals in the final period.
The River Rush had a much stronger showing in their third game of the weekend. They faced off against the Golden Rockets and won 6-4.
The Rush's Caden Cygan scored a minute into the match, the Rockets scored a goal of their own a few minutes later. River Rush Captain Bennett Kuhnlein ended the first period by scoring and giving the Rush a 2-1 lead.
The second period had the Rush's Ian George score less than three minutes in. That was followed by Gage Parrell scoring halfway through the period. The Rockets scored two goals of their own before the period ended, but the Rush held a 4-3 lead going into the game's final period.
Nine minutes into the last period, hometown Quesnelian Isaiah Bagri scored his 10th goal of the season. The Rockets swiftly responded, scoring less than a minute of game-time later. The Rush kept their one-goal lead until the final 30 seconds of the game when Tate O'Brien got the team's sixth goal of the night.
The Rush had the shot-on-net advantage with 47 shots on net compared to the Rockets' 38.
The River Rush will be playing their next game at the West Fraser Centre on Friday, Nov. 1, with another on Nov. 2. Both games start at 7 p.m.
