February 17, 2011
Busy Weekend Ahead
By Chase Norman
This upcoming weekend is by far the
busiest weekend of the WCRHL 2010-2011 regular season with nearly every team in
competition. Events are being held all
across California in Woodland, Corona, as well as a single game in Santa Barbara
featuring UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Division I teams.
Five of the WCRHL Division II teams
will be finishing out their regular season schedule in Woodland this weekend, with special guest
Northern Colorado (RMCRHA) joining them for some exhibition games. West
Valley College
of the Junior College Division and Sonoma State B, Chico State B and West
Valley College B will also be playing at this event. With the Division II standings being closer
than ever, each and every game will be crucial in determining playoff
seeds. If you get the chance we
recommend that you check out Sonoma State University
vs. Chico State,
USC vs. California and UC Santa Cruz vs. West Valley
College.
The home game for UCSB is being
held on Friday the 18th and will be the third of four scheduled
meetings between these teams. Cal Poly
SLO won the first two contests by a total of only three goals, so we expect the
last two games in this rivalry to be intense, with playoff implications on the
line for both teams.
The Mission Hockey
College will also be
taking place at this event on Saturday February 19th at 1:00 p.m. Mission
Hockey College
is a free youth clinic for ages 5 to 15, instructed by collegiate players from
the WCRHL. To register your youth player
for the event, email [email protected]
with your player’s name, age and position, or simply show up at Noon to
register on site. Space is limited, so
registration by email is recommended.
All six Division I teams will be in
Corona to finish out their season along with the remaining three Junior College
Division teams and all of the Southern Conference B Division teams. The Division I race this year has been
phenomenal and seen several teams sit atop the standings and no one knows who
is going to end up with the top seed. Long Beach State, Arizona
State and Cal Poly SLO are all tied up for first with 21 points going into this
last weekend and are all prepared to play their best hockey of the year to grab
that top spot.
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook as we post results, comments
and survey questions throughout the weekend.
Good luck to everyone this weekend!
With so many teams in the B
Division, the last few playoff spots are still up for grabs. Chico
State, West Valley
College, and Saddleback
College Red are all competing for a playoff berth while UCSB Blue and Cal Poly
SLO Green site idle and await the results of this weekend’s games.