BY Chris Davis
Pechanga Arena SD — As Calvin “Nuke” LaLush said in the movie Bull Durham “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.”

Well, on Friday, February 8th the Vancouver Warriors (3-6) came into the Pechanga Arena San Diego and made the San Diego Seals (4-3) wish it would’ve rained to postpone the game. The Warriors muscled their way to a 14-6 victory to close to within two games of the Western Conference lead.

“Our success early this season came from us outworking teams,” Head Coach and GM Patrick Merrill said after the loss. “We didn’t want to do that for some reason and it showed.”

The Seals started the game hot. Like a franchise record for fastest goal to start the game hot. Just nine seconds into the game, before most of the crowd of 8,706 even got into their seats, Cameron Holding tickled the twine for a 1-0 lead.

Dan Dawson put the Seals up 2-0 about six minutes later off a Turner Evans feed. “That was ugly,” Dawson commented after the game. “They outworked us in every aspect of the game.”

At the 6:31 of the first quarter, “Wonder Boy” Austin Staats was called for elbowing. But rather than getting a power play, Vancouver was still even due to them getting a two-minute penalty for embellishment.

Three minutes later Vancouver got on the board with a James Rahe goal (his only one of the night) to cut the Seals lead in half.

Jules Heningburg with just over two minutes left in the opening quarter scored his first career goal in his first pro quarter. However, nearly two minutes into the second quarter, as he was rushing in towards the goal, he was whistled for a major goalie interference and also a game misconduct. That opened the flood gates and the Seals could never close the hole again. Vancouver then went on a five-goal scoring barrage.

With just over six minutes elapsed in the second quarter, during the Warrior scoring blitz, a San Diego goal was wiped off the board when a holding the stick minor was called on Wonder Boy.

The Seals finally broke out of their scoring drought that lasted over 15 minutes with a Garrett Billings power play tally to bring SD within three.

San Diego would score again on the other side of halftime 5:40 into the third.

There was only one problem with that, the next home goal wouldn’t come until there was about three minutes left in the game. In the meantime, Vancouver would score seven straight to make the final goal by Staats, kinda mute.

The San Diego Sports Domination player of the game was Vancouver’s Keegan Bal who had six goals and four assists on the evening. “Our offense was clicking tonight,” Bal said. “We took a lot of shot and many of them found holes.”

Game Notes:
1st Quarter Recap: Shots: VAN — 9, SD — 17.
0:09 — SD: Holding (3) (UA) SD 1-0
5:51 — SD: Dawson (9) (Evans 11) SD 2-0
8:39 — VAN: Rahe (5) (Bal 15) SD 2-1
12:51 — SD: Heningburg (1) (Evans 12, Buchanan 16) SD 3-1
14:40 — VAN: Chetner (1) (Bal 16) SD 3-2

2nd Quarter Recap: Shots: VAN — (16/25), SD — (14/31).
1:13 — VAN: McBride (13) (UA-Rebound) PP TIE 3-3
3:45 — VAN: Bal (8) (Jones 24) PP VAN 4-3
4:19 — VAN: Bal (9, 2nd) (UA) PP VAN 5-3
8:14 — VAN: Bal (10, HT) (UA) VAN 6-3
12:26 — VAN: Bal (11, 4th) (Jones 25) SH VAN 7-3
13:11 — SD: Billings (8) (Evans 12, Staats 14) PP VAN 7-4

3rd Quarter Recap: Shorts: VAN — (15/40), SD — (10/41).
5:40 — SD: Dawson (10, 2nd) (Jackson 4, Evans 13) VAN 7-5
11:35 — VAN: Jones (15) (Chetner 3) VAN 8-5
13:29 — VAN: Bal (12, 5th) (Jones 26) VAN 9-5* Seals Challenged: Call Confirmed

4th Quarter Recap: Shorts: VAN — (24/64), SD — (5/46).
5:29 — VAN: Malcom (6) (Jones 27, McBride 9) VAN 10-5
6:05 — VAN: Malcom (7, 2nd) (Jones 28) VAN 11-5
7:58 — VAN: Jones (16, 2nd) (Bal 17) VAN 12-5
8:04 — VAN: McBride (14, 2nd) (Bal 18) VAN 13-5
11:06 — VAN: Bal (13, 6th) (Malcom 8, Beers 7) VAN 14-5
11:51 — SD: Staats (19) (Buchanan 16, Billings 14) VAN 14-6

Power Play: VAN — 5-9, SD 1-3.
San Diego Sports Domination Player of the Game: Keegan Bal — VAN (6g, 4a)

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