2006 Cold Spring Cabble Tourney

Bucks finish tied for 5th out of 12 teams

The Bucks traveled to home town Cold Spring for the second time to participate in the 25th Annual Cabble tournament.  The team was a bit slim, but we wanted to give it a try anyway.  Four of the Bucks in the tourney were within spitting distance of their childhood homes.  Auz hosted the team for soup, sandwiches, beer and wine on Saturday.  The Leithers hosted the team for spaghetti dinner, beers, hot tub and a place to crash on Saturday night.  We couldn't be more appreciative of the hospitality.  The team watched the exciting Indy / Pit game at the Side Bar on Sunday and then headed back to the city.  We'll definitely be back for this one.

Game 1, Sat, 1:00 pm:  Bucks defeat Granite 4-3 in a nail biter 16 minute overtime.  Alan had the first goal, Brian had a sweet unassisted goal and Alan put in the 3rd with only 3 minutes remaining in regulation.  We called our timeout, kept our power play line on the rink and we thought we had this one locked up.  But with only 20 seconds left on the clock, the home town team stole the ball, ran it down behind our net, passed out to the point and put in a goal to send the game to overtime.  The Bucks controlled the game in overtime and gave up one very good chance for the Granite team.  Alan finally knocked in the winning goal from Walfoort and completed his hat trick.  Nice work Alan!

Game 2, Sat, 7:00 pm.  Bucks lose to Cold Spring Chiro 0-3.  This team had a few very good players and hustled to the ball well.  They had a full line of subs and ran harder than we did.  The liked to dump and chase and we turned the ball over a few too many times in our defensive zone.  Chiro went ahead to win the tourney.

Game 3, Sun, 10:00 am.  Bucks lose to Shorty's 0-3.  The Bucks played with only 2 subs on this (I'm not even going to count my attempt at playing).  We were pressing too much and turned the ball over too much in this game.  Shorty's scored on breakaways and rarely controlled the ball in our zone.  We probably should have done better in this game but we couldn't get anything to hit the net.  Shorty's went ahead to lose the next game to Mad Jacks.

Thanks to the fans!

1st Place:  Cold Spring Chiro

2nd Place:  Geez

3rd Place:  Mad Jacks

4th Place:  Shorty's

5th Place:  Bucks and Granite

Overall record:  1-2

Goals for:  4

Goals against:  9

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