Zach Fridella scored the game winner just seven minutes into the first period as the Ghostriders rout the Creston Thunder Cats 7-1 in front of 877 fans in Fernie on Friday night.

Rider Coach Will Verner’s nephew & Future Ghostriders Goalie Owen McFarlane
The Ghostriders scored five goals in the first period and a few of them were almost text book plays. James Werner made a great play fighting through the checks on Fridella’s GW, Bond Hawryluk scored a PP goal after the Riders passed the puck around beautifully with everyone touching the puck, but only Jesse Niemi and Scott Anderson got assists. Mitch Board scored the fourth, final and goalie chasing out of the net goal against Sunny Gill paving the way for Chad Katunar to get some playing time in net for the Cats. The Riders scored three more times against Katunar but had to fire 29 shots at him to get the goals. The goal scorers were, Bond Hawryluk (2 PP) Brendan Hawryluk, Cody Boekestyn, Mitch Board, Jesse Niemi and Zach Fridella. Scott Swiston scored the lone goal for Creston.

Jason Greenwell played 28 minutes before getting kicked out with a game misconduct and Stephen Wolff finished the game stoning the Cats on all 13 shots they took at him.

The three stars were Jesse Niemi with a goal and two assists . Mitch Board was the third star and Josh Garneau the second star. Both Garneau and Cody Boekestyn -photo- played as well as I’ve seen them on the blue line Friday and will get a lot of ice in the next week.- see below-

Overall a bad game for the Riders as Matt MacDonald, Mike Weist and Brendan Hawryluk all left the game with apparent injuries.
Fairly hostile game that will resume in Whitehorse next Tuseday and Wednesday after Revelstoke on Saturday and Sicamouse on Sunday. 
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