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With pair of weekend wins

It was a productive weekend for the West
Vancouver Rockets as they squeaked by the
North Van Stingers 7-6 Saturday at Karen
Magnussen and then, in a four pointer at West
Van on Sunday, hung on for a 4-3 victory over the
PoCo Blazers to take. over sole possession of first
place in Metro League standings.

Saturday's wide open,
seesaw battle at Karen
Magnussen became a goal-
tenders’ duel between the
Rockets’ Mark Mees and the
Stingers’ Mark Orlene in the
game's Closing minutes.

Tied 2-2 at the end of one
period, and 4-4 at the end of
two, the Rockets jumped
into a 6-4 lead carly in the
third period on goals by
Barry Penman and Graig
Harman.

But the Stingers battled
back with Miles Merrifield

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scoring to make it 6-5 and
then Dave Berto, with his
third goal of the game,
racking up the cqualizer
midway through the period.

With only six minutes
remaining, Brian Chatfield
scored the game winner for
the Rockets, directing a
Steve Stuart pass on net
which deflected in off a
Stinger defender's skate.

In the final minutes both
teams had = several good
scoring chances but equally
good goaltending at both

ends prevented the Rockets
from getting an insurance
goal and the Stingers from
the equalizer.

Other scorers in the game
were Al Wilson, Dan
Corrigan, Jeff Durrant and
Dave Harvey for the
Rockets, and Gerry Knapp
and Mike Klausen for the
Stingers.

On Sunday at West Van
two third period goals by
Dan Corrigan and _ goal-
tending heroics by Randy
Smith enabled the Rockets
to post a 4-3 win over the
PoCo Blazers and take over
first place in the standings.

The two teams traded
goals in the opening stanza
with Al Wilson banging
home a Jim Bahr rebound
just fifty seconds into the
game, and then PoCo

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evening the score midway
through the period.

The Rockets notched the
only goal in the second
period, coming off the stick
of Barry Penman at the two
minute mark and giving the
West Van team a 2-1 lead
heading into the third
period.

PoCo made it a 2-2 tie just
thirty seconds into the final
frame, but the Rockets
regained the lead three
minutes later on a goal by
Corrigan from Jeff Durrant,
and then a repeat by the duo
two minutes later proved to
be fhe game winner.

It took the Blazers only _

twenty seconds to pull within
a goal again, and then for
most of the remaining fifteen
minutes of the gamo applied
relenticss pressure but were
unable to get the equalizer
past Smith in the Rocket net.

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