The Texas Roadrunners have sent high scoring forward Lucas Dyer to the Louisiana drillers this past week that brought some much needed depth to the Runners line-up. Dyer the 20 year old from Houston, TX. appeared in 33 games this season with the Runners and had a league leading 51 goals and 44 assists for 95 points.
In return the Roadrunners picked up three players that will help their chances of making a solid post season run. Forward Anthony Riviello 5 goals and 5 assists in 16 games with the Drillers and in his first game with his new team 1 goal and 2 assists. Defenseman Brady Warrington, in 17 games Warrington had 1 goal and 11 assists. In his first game with the Runners he had 1 goal and 1 assist. Forward William Dyker in his 3rd season at the junior level had 4 goals and 8 assists in 15 games and 1 goal and 4 assists in his first game with the Runners.
All three players were an instant impact for their new team last night as the Roadrunners got back on track with a 13-3 victory over the Bayou State Rougarou at “Spirit Ice Arena” in College Station, TX. “We worked with Louisiana to put together a deal that would add to their offence and help us with depth both upfront and on the backend. I watched all three guys play and knew that this would help our team tremendously. Dyer is a great kid and has been a part of our family for two years and I will miss him for sure. We picked up some young talent in the three we now have with Dyker being an 06, Warrington an 07 and Riviello an 08. This will allow us time to develop them and help them reach their goals of higher levels of hockey in the future.” Stated Roadrunners Head Coach Mike Beavis
Bayou State 3 @ Texas (R) 12 – If Friday night of hockey was absent of goals for your team, never fear because the Texas Roadrunners put on a show on home ice against the Bayou State Rougarou by lighting the lamp 12 times. The club continues to dominate the standings with 26-9-0 on their record so far.
For their game over Bayou State, the Roadrunners opened the scoring and put in four unanswered before the period concluded. Logan Diskey lit the lamp first, and then Brady Warrington and Jayden Hitt followed, as Diskey scored again before the first buzzer. In the second Jacob Brown got things started and made it five-nothing. But then three minutes later, Kamdyn Smith responded and broke the shutout dreams for Texas. However, their attempt would be met with a retaliation, as Will Dyker sauced one to Nathan Pickett to bury one. Ten minutes later, though, the Rougarou tried to muster more goals regardless of what the scoreboard said. In back-to-back settings, Evan McCreary put in two goals just a minute apart. His team still trailed, and would continue to even more, as Anthony Riviello responded after burying Kurtis Brachlow’s rebound. In the third, the Roadrunners went out with a bang and racked up five more, as seven goals simply wasn’t good enough. At 16:25, Vincent Campbell launched one in while empty-handed. Then a minute later, Memphis Palmer added more with Jayden Hitt helping out. Shortly after, Dyker chimed in and added another. And before wrapping it up, William Heskett would jailbreak one past Bayou State’s goaltender and pick up a ‘shorty. But he wasn’t done just yet. 18 seconds after the ‘shorty, Heskett blasted the biscuit past the net right off the center ice faceoff to call it a game.
The Runners will be back in action again this evening as well as tomorrow to complete the three game set with the same Rougarou. Saturday puck drop is 7:15 pm CST and Sunday’s contest has a 12:15 puck drop all at “Spirit Ice” in College Station, TX. Remember if you can’t make it out to catch the action live, all Roadrunners games are broadcast on NATV.com