Scoring race tightens up as Luckies have high-goals weekend

Houston Luckies’ Derek Dinelle, with three goals over the weekend, tightened up the CIHL scoring race, pulling himself into a first place tie with Terrace River Kings top scorer, Darcy Allison, whose team was idle over the weekend. Dinelle has nine goals and 20 assists for 29 points and the share of first place with Allison, who has eight goals and 21 assists. Although Houston had a high scoring weekend, with a total of 17 goals, it was well spread out with Dinelle and Mackowichuk the only multiple goal scorers. River Kings captain, Mario Desjardins, who is tied for the CIHL goal-scoring lead with Blaine Markwart of Kitimat, each with 15 goals, is still in second place behind Allison and Dinelle, as he has 11 assists to go with his 15 goals, for a total of 26 points. He remains three points ahead of team-mate Terry Zaporzan, whose 11 goals and 12 assists ties him at 23 points with Jerry Bessette o the Mackenzie Moose, who has 14 goals and nine assists. However, the Terrace players are again idle this weekend while Bessette, Dinelle and Markwart all see action, as do Jon Marren of Houston, close behind at 21 points and James Mackowichuk and Dan Dykens of Smithers, right behind Marren at 20 points. Goaltending race…. Meanwhile Don Kenzle of the Houston Luckies still hold a narrow save percentage lead over Burny Carlson of Terrace in the goaltending race. Kenzle faced a total of 81 shots in Williams Lake on the weekend, but still has a save percentage of .851, slightly better than Carlson at .889. Kenzle has played one more game and has one more win, six in 9 games, against Carlson’s 5 wins in eight games. …and the bad boys In the penalty-minutes race, Kitimat’s Robbie Lafferty, with the weekend off, dropped into second spot behind Mackenzie Moose’s Cole Atkinson, who has 89 minutes on the official CIHL stats, but 91 minutes on his own team’s stats listings.